The Terminator and the Determinism of Narrative

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The first 2 Terminator films are classics. The 4 attempts to make Terminator 3, not so much. But taken together they’re a good riff on historical determinism both in terms of trends toward certain outcome, bust most of all in terms of the narratives we accept to explain the world becoming the thing that shapes it.

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00:00 Intro
00:52 Birth of a Story
04:10 Probability over Prophecy
07:00 What If the Story Doesn’t Fit?



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