This discussion might be described as SPOILER content, so if you wer hoping to dodge any spoilers for Terminator Salvation, turn around now.
Run. Don’t walk. This is not going to be sugar coated at all and will deal with the conclusion of the film.
Remember how McG said a few months back that the ending of the film would polarize fans? Well apparently that ending is no longer in the film.
McG revealed the details of that ending to io9. And while the film’s current ending is not even close to the one described, some might consider the following a spoiler, so you have been warned!
“We had a jet-black ending. Connor dies, we’re in a room with all the people we care about. You take Connor’s likeness, you put it on the living machine of Marcus. He sits up, now looking like Christian Bale, takes a gun, kills Kate, kills Kyle, kills Star, kills everybody, eyes flare red, [snaps] the end.”
I think the idea is not going to polarize fans, it would unify them in a dumbstruck rage that would turn even the most devoted against the franchise. Terminator is already precariously hanging by a thread with the time paradox stuff, but we accept it as part of the deal. But to have THIS ending in place would not just snap that fragile thread, it would take that thread, violate its mother, shatter its self esteem, come back in time to tell you how to save it and then dash any glimmer of storyline left.
It would be a great way to end the film if they just wanted to fuck everything up and piss all over the franchise. It would mean that Salvation is not the Hope Crusade that Connor leads them to, but that the ROBOTS found salvation.
I am glad they chose to remove this ending. I couldn’t see any good coming from this at all.
