Technology that grows exponentially each sequel
Sci-fi is great and all, but nothing takes you out of the action more than catching a sequel and finding out that - to spice things up - the producers have introduced impossible leaps in technology overnight.
Peep Phantasm, which was just about scary enough to have me pooping my pants when I first saw it as a kid. I was ducking frisbees afraid for my life after seeing those silver ball suckers flying into people’s heads and having their blood and brains flying out the other side like carbonated tomato soup straight out of a paint mixer.
Then the sequel comes along and now “the ball is back” with snazzy new features like a buzz saw. Okay, I’ll buy that. Then the third turd comes along, and suddenly the ball is big, gold, and fitted with friggin' lasers. Why not just have it make toast and slice computer terminals while you’re at it? Suddenly something very scary just turned about as intimidating as friggin' Tron.
Picking on The Terminator might draw some die hard fans’ ire, but let’s face it: if Skynet could grind out upgrades as fast as the sequels portrayed, John Connor and his antiquated T-800 would be about a dangerous a match as 11-year-old boy with a Erector set.
Sure there’s the desire to put a new spin on a completely repetitious (though awesome) plot in lieu of revamping the entire project, but it makes me wonder if the next terminator they send after John will be able to slow time, teleport, or make Vista work - freakish feats that suspend my disbelief about as well as the National Inquirer.
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