The problem with the Terminator franchise is that it has changed hands to different copyright holders so many times, that it would be a nightmare to keep everything terminator wise as good as T2.
T1 = MGM.
It?s a great opener to the franchise. Hers a video review by James Rolfe, (Angry Video Game Nerd) which pretty much sums up how I feel about the first movie.
http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacre/3170588T2 = Carolco
Quite possibly the best sequel ever made. I often say that action scenes alone don?t make a movie, but when they are combined with character driven writing, it?s a winner.
T3 = Columbia TriStar
I pretend this movie doesn?t exist, lol. It?s that bad. It doesn?t take the franchise anywhere new. It?s a cheaper version of T2, and the cheapness really shows.
TSCC = WB
It?s a great 'what if' alternate timeline concept but it seems to move kind of slow. Terminator is not one of those things that can be stretched out over 20 episodes, which is why I liked season 1 better because of its shortness. Again, it doesn?t really take the story anywhere but it makes up for it by just being a survival story.
T4 = WB
Good for an action flick. But has quite a few plot holes. Plus, a lot of things didn't make sense to me. For example, why would SkyNet even consider building a giant terminator to collect humans at all? In fact, the whole franchise is fundamentally flawed. If SkyNet becomes self-aware, and is super intelligent, then why bother making terminators in the first place? A few several thousand nukes would easily wipe out every human. It?s not like SkyNet doesn't have the resources. Use the first nuke attack in T3 to wipe out safety zones, then a second nuke strike from major strategic locations to finish the humans off.
