As Dark Fate’s devastating prologue shows, saving a young John Connor in Judgment Day only delayed the inevitable, as another T-800-not the one who protected him from the T-1000, but another model who also happens to look like a de-aged CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger-goes back in time to finish the job shortly after the events of that film.

Nevertheless, Dark Fate has the makings of a quintessential Terminator movie, with a few notable changes. Considering that the post– Judgment Day sequels were varying degrees of awful, and the most entertaining thing to come out of any of them might be an iconic Christian Bale meltdown on the set of Salvation, that decision is definitely a good thing.

Not just content with changing the past to save the future (again), Terminator: Dark Fate also asks that you wipe clean any memories of the past three movies from the series- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, and Terminator Genisys-and treat it as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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