The Terminator and the Determinism of Narrative
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. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian Obligatory plug for Ninti’s Gate 🔹 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYXH9BWD and now on Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nint... 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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