Discrepancies and SPOILER!

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2003)

WARNING! This may contain spoilers! Read at your own risk
Since when did John Connor become such a wimp, crying, despairing and self-doubting? For those who've watched NGE, you could say he's suffering from Shinji Ikari Syndrome, though to a much lesser extent.

In T2, when the T-1000 hacks into the police computer database, he looks up John Connor. The date of birth says February 2nd 1985. And Schwarzenegger's Terminator says that 35 years in the future, John reprograms him. In a later scene, John says he is about 45 when that happens, making him 10 years old in T2. Yet in T3, John's voiceover at the beginning of the movie says that the T-1000 struck at him when he was 13. Since John was born in 1985, if T2 was set when he was 13, then the year must be 1998 (1985+1398), one year after Judgement Day occurs, although in T2, Judgement Day has not happened yet as they are so trying to prevent it. That makes John 10 and not 13!

There are Arnie's one liners which is the movie's grace. But `unable to comply,' `irrelevant', `subroutines', all sounds very Star Trek-ish. But the age-old line `come with me if you want to live' isn't in the movie, which was disappointing. Another disappointment was how fast the movie was, all the T-X trying to kill John and Kathryn happened in the space of one day.

I also didn't like the ending with the beginning of the end of the world. It leaves it so incomplete, especially with John's looming and inevitable death by Schwarzenegger's Terminator playing on his boyhood feelings. Hopefully there will be a T4 with a much happier ending. But the introduction of Kathryn Brewster, and all the Lieutenant killing plots show that the franchise is all going downhill.
I wish, however, that I could pass this on to the writers of T3 but I don't know how, if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. They should get the ages right, at least in my opinion.