The trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate yields some good things, but if you want the long-suffering Terminator fan base to believe that Dark Fate is going to be a return to form, you don’t accompany the trailer with the soft piano music that’s in this trailer. It should be the classic Terminator theme. There is no piece of music that is more synonymous with the series. It makes me wonder if the parade of different directors who have tried their hand at making Terminator movies since Terminator 2 have really studied the first two films. I mean, really studied why those two films are still so great and so timeless.

A true Terminator film should be dark and violent, to the point of it being a horror film, because that’s essentially what The Terminator and Terminator 2 were: sci-fi horror films. Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick were terrifying. No director has been able to duplicate that in any sequel so far.

It’s great to see Linda Hamilton back as Sarah Connor, but they keep shoehorning Schwarzenegger into every Terminator movie. I know it’s his most famous role, but it’s time to move on from Arnold.

If this trailer is anything to go by, Dark Fate has a chance to not be awful. It might possibly be another Terminator: Salvation: good, but not great, but still not the true, jaw-dropping Terminator sequel we’ve been waiting for since the landmark Terminator 2: Judgment Day.