A few months back, I caught the pilot episode on the new Terminator series on the net, and I felt that it was subpar. Now that the show is out, I am shocked to find out that my opinion seems to be irregular. All my friends are really digging it, and they can’t seem to figure out why I don’t like the pilot. So I’d figure that I’d share my reasons. 

• -No Arnold! I figure that we’ll probably won’t see Arnold in action films anymore, especially anything related to the Terminator, so this is the smallest blow, but Arnold really is a big part of the Terminator charm, and to me, his absence really shows.
•  -The Bad Terminator Wasn’t Too Smart- Now, I almost got in a fight with a co-worker over this one. He said “It’s just a machine!” yeah, but the Terminators are quite intelligent, greatly due to them being machines. They were killing machines, but they really knew how to find their targets. And the only reason they failed was if you were Kyle Reese or if you had another Terminator as your guardian. But this guy, he could have had John Conner, if he had only played it smart. He could have just walked up to him and shot him or rip his head off, but no! He goes ballistic, and completely misses his target, which he probably still should have been able to hit. And then there was the very cheesy “Class dismissed” line. 
• -The New Sarah Conner- She just wasn’t Sarah Conner. Linda Hamilton’s Sarah was such a strong character, especially in the second film. She was smart. She new Judgement Day was coming, and Sarah Conner would still have doubt whether or not they prevented it, and she still would have prepared herself for it. She’d take John and they would live off the grid, probably somewhere similar to where they went to in T2. And she certainly wouldn’t send John to school with the last name of her former lover. Now wonder Skynet found them! 
• -It Doesn’t Feel Like the Terminator- The Terminator films had a sense of impending darkness, at least, as far as the first two films go. I don’t know how to really describe it in words, but those films just had this dooming feeling to them. Almost as if Judgment Day was going to happen no matter what they do, no matter how much they quote the “There’s no fate” line.

Those are my biggest reasons, but I do believe part of my lack of enthusiasm is because I just really want to see the future wars, which is being put to film, but something tells me that McG will botch it.I do plan on giving it a few more chances. I don’t enjoy pilot episodes that often.