Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather rip Terminator: Salvation, McG, Christian Bale, and Skynet a new one.

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In honor of this weekend’s release of Terminator: Salvation, enjoy this roundup of terminator themed posts stretching back to the early days of the site:

• “I’ll Be Back”: The Terminator Monster Ballad
• I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger
• Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and Terminators: James Cameron’s Inspiration?
• Unpacking Christian Bale’s Armband: The Resistance Logo from Terminator Salvation
• NY ComicCon Day 2: Terminator Salvation and McG
• Halloween Conclusion: We Need a Terminator Awareness Campaign
• The Terminator Prequel
• Memo to Skynet
• Overthinking It Dot Com with Me If You Want to Live
• A Brief History of Terminators
• The Pump Action Shotgun: The Sound and the Fury
• Research, New York Times, Research!
• Fictional Fictions

Podcast Episodes

• Episode 3: How To Survive a Terminator Attack
• Bonus Episode: Interview with Bear McCreary (composer for Sarah Connor Chornicles)
• Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Supplement 1
• Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Supplement 2

[This continues our coverage of NY Comic-Con 2009]

I have to admit: the thing I was most looking forward to at Comic-Con was Warner Brothers’ Terminator Salvation sneak-peak screening. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty big Terminator fans here at Overthinking It, and I for one have been cautiously optimistic about this film’s chances of restoring the Terminator franchise to some semblance of dignity after the disappointing Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. (The recent TV series has accomplished some of that already, but that progress would be quickly erased by a stinker feature film.)

(Mostly) spoiler-free first impressions after the jump.