May 5, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 29 segments
Did the *Terminator* franchise really need to live on past James Cameron's excellent *T2: Judgment Day*? Probably not! But Hollywood can't let a good (or moneymaking) franchise die. And so after the…
We're going from, uh, two months dedicated to Cannon to a franchise that can't decide what is canon.
... you know, it's funny you, you say that because, um, I was just recently, right before I hopped on, I was thinking about the franchise, of course, getting ready to record.
And I go, it, it's funny that we love the Terminator franchise so much and s- for so many reasons.
opposite, uh, of, of success to series to really, really hammer home the failure to franchise thing, while also still being a franchise.
It's, it's up there with, um, like, like to me, like, the two other examples of this are Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It's like the f- the franchises that keep chugging along, but like almost in spite of themselves, right?
We're going from, uh, two months dedicated to Cannon to a franchise that can't decide what is canon.
... you know, it's funny you, you say that because, um, I was just recently, right before I hopped on, I was thinking about the franchise, of course, getting ready to record.
And I go, it, it's funny that we love the Terminator franchise so much and s- for so many reasons.
opposite, uh, of, of success to series to really, really hammer home the failure to franchise thing, while also still being a franchise.
It's, it's up there with, um, like, like to me, like, the two other examples of this are Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It's like the f- the franchises that keep chugging along, but like almost in spite of themselves, right?
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