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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 1, 2026

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Dark Salvation

Yeah, they're starting to blur together for me, too.


How do you make a sequel that manages to keep things reasonably optimistic without basically undoing everything that has happened?

By not shooting the main character in the first three minutes of the story? Low bar to clear, but Dark Fate doesn't even manage that!


but replaced Linda Hamilton with a silly little girlboss

The series stopped being about Sarah-John (interestingly, you don't hear much about the other series that still should feature this, and I'm not actually sure why that is). That's part of why T3 was meh- sure, it's spectacular, but not as interesting with Just John.

T2 is timeless because it has to do with motherhood just as much as it does fatherhood. Dark Fate, and Genisys (to a point), intentionally spits in the face of both.