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Kareem Ali 2.5

Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #6

 

  • The good

    Mildly interesting parallel drawn between Parnell and the Terminators. Dr. Kogan's backup plan

  • The bad

    The story is still very lackluster with the resistance still going through motions of already established events. Skynet's characterization (computerization?) is very puzzling and lacking

  • The ugly

    • Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #6 has John Connor and the resistance trying to hold off the terminators infused with a newfound brutality from being under the control of Thomas Parnell. And it’s important that no terminators get near the time door because Connor is working on sending back in time a terminator that is familiar to him, and responsible for protecting him and his mother when he was younger. However it’s far from an easy task as human casualties have been rising since Parnell took control. But Skynet is concerned about conceding that control to Parnell because  the terminators are being destroyed at an increased rate too and Parnell couldn’t care less about that. And with his control over the terminators being at 40% of the total force and rising, Skynet is running out of time. So it turns to Dr. Kogan once again for help and she confirms that Parnell is indeed unstable because he’s a serial killer and Skynet shouldn’t have expected anything less. Will Parnell become an even bigger threat than Skynet, and if he does, will the resistance even stand a chance against him?

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    The panel above sums up how I’ve been feeling about this series, which started off so brilliantly with great action and very intriguing story threads, and that’s wherever this series is trying to go with its story line it needs to hurry up because it’s getting ugly. And it’s one thing to be able to discuss a series of events that take place in terms of what it evokes in the reader but it’s another matter entirely when events that take place make you question the need for major plotlines that came up earlier. The latter was the case when reading the exchange between Parnell and Skynet and then its subsequent appeal to Dr. Kogan. Not only did Skynet want to reverse almost immediately a major decision that moved the story forward but it raised the question of why Skynet didn’t consider that happening and why it’s so incompetent. And if it can rely on and trust Dr. Kogan and Parnell for all its major decisions why has it been embroiled in this war with the resistance, which is only fighting because Skynet is trying to kill everyone, and not reach out to anyone from the resistance to make peace and preserve its own survival that way? There is a mildly interesting moment when a parallel is drawn between Parnell and the Terminators in general, and a good sequence that takes place with the 3 of them later in the issue but it wasn’t enough to eliminate the thought that this story is going nowhere and is just pulling random elements from all the terminator movies. But instead of being filled with excitement about seeing the Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in T2, I was filled with dread at another filler moment. And sadly, that’s what this series has become and the ending seems like it’ll be more of the same next issue.

     

    SUMMARY

    Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #6 is another disappointing issue that takes the story nowhere and the very brief interesting moments are dwarfed by the overall lackluster story that is all over the place. And instead of inspiring confidence about where this series is headed when a character states that everything from this point forward is up in the air as to what could happen, I wonder why it has taken so long and the ending suggests otherwise. I don’t know if this series can turn a corner but the resistance has more hope to succeed than I do about where the story is headed.

     

    Release Date: 5/7/14

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

    Artist: Pete Woods

  • Rating ( 5 )
  • Total score 5.0

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