Terminator: Dark Fate
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens, Forrest Wickman and Sam Adams discuss the sixth installment in the Terminator series, Terminator: Dark Fate. Despite the sequels in between, T6 picks up where Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off. Sarah Connor is back and joined in the fight against Terminators by a Rev-9, a technologically advanced human and, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s terminator. But will James Cameron’s return be enough to revitalize this nostalgic franchise? Or are audiences ready to say “hasta la vista” to the Terminator?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.6 | Shiland Green is people. |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:16.6 | Oh, Rushburg. |
| 0:23.6 | What's in the box? You minute! You blew it up! Damn you all the hell! Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, we are going to be spoiling T6, the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise, also known as Terminator Dark Fate, directed by Tim Miller, produced by James Cameron. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, he was one of the producers and also is credited as like one of the four or so screenwriters who helped come up with the story. |
| 0:54.7 | Right. So he's back with the franchise for the first time in a while. We'll talk about the history of the Terminator franchise, which goes back now more than 30 years. But first, let me introduce my two co-spoilers. You just heard Forrest Whitman, Slate's culture editor in New York. Hey, Forrest. |
| 1:08.5 | And from Philadelphia, we have Sam Adams, Slate's culture writer, film critic, Terminator expert, I hope. |
| 1:14.6 | Hi, Sam. in New York. Hey, Forrest. And from Philadelphia, we have Sam Adams, Slate's culture writer, film |
| 1:12.7 | critic, Terminator expert, I hope. Hi, Sam. That's me. Hello. But I actually need him to save me, |
| 1:18.2 | because you guys are going to see, as we try to reconstruct this movie, that it's one of those |
| 1:22.1 | movies that just leaps out of your mind the second that you've seen it. So the idea of going back, |
| 1:27.2 | plot beat for plot beat and reconstructing this is going to be a journey into some sort of |
| 1:31.8 | fantasy Terminator world that exists everywhere and nowhere. As this movie does in a way, it's |
| 1:36.8 | bringing back all these Terminator callbacks, but what is it in and of itself? It's sort of this |
| 1:41.5 | protein blob, not unlike the black blobby substance of one of the |
| 1:46.0 | villains, which we will get to. But before we start on this movie, I wanted to, as usual, ask both of you |
| 1:51.1 | whether or not you generally like and would recommend this movie. And also because it's part of such a |
| 1:55.5 | long tradition, can you just revisit your own Terminator histories? How many of the six now movies that exist have you seen, roughly in what order? |
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