Is there a deeper, more hidden, esoteric meaning to the Hollywood films that we all love to watch?

I'm Jay Dyer.

And I'm Jay Widener.

This is Hollywood Decoded.

The Terminator series is one of the most fascinating examples of predictive programming, especially

when we think about the fact that it premiered in the 80s.

And what's neat about that is that most people in the 80s had not really had this idea

of an internet or what was coming.

Maybe if you worked in government or something like that at some sort of secret

base, you knew about the experiments and data transmissions that ARPANet had done. But you didn't

know about this coming internet that would really change the entire world. However, there were a lot

of films, and in particular the Terminator series, which encapsulated this prediction of a coming,

not just interlinked computer network, but the actual idea of AI and a giant space-based

SkyNet network.

And that's what we have in the Terminator series.

The SkyNet is the bad guy, I guess you could say in the series, and it directs the Terminators

to go do its will on Earth to kill the rebels and things like that.

The whole idea though that a guy from Canada can come down to the United States and be a truck

driver and work at a drugstore like James Cameron did.

And then one day come up with this idea for a script and then he, you know, then he insists that he directs it,

even though he has really no filmmaking background at all.

And the fact that then, you know, he does a pretty good job and then it becomes a huge

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