Well, the future is safe… for now, as Netflix’s anime series, Terminator Zero, has been cancelled after just one season in 2024.
The series, by The Batman scribe Mattson Tomlin, starred Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator and Rosario Dawson as Kokoro, was, according to Tomlin, a hit with “critical and audience reception to it … tremendous”, however, it seemed that not enough people were watching.
Teasing that the plan was for a five-season arc, Tomlin said on social media: “Maybe someday I’ll do a big thread about the plans I had for the full five-season run. The series finale was special, and it was part of my pitch to get the job. I’ve written all of the season two scripts and outlined pretty much all of season three.
Netflix was really great about supporting the show and giving me tremendous creative freedom to do what I wanted to do. Good partners. The show was expensive and very time-consuming. The only way they could justify it was if the audience showed up for it, and they just didn’t.
I’ll also say they offered to let me do 2, maybe 3 episodes more to wrap up the story, which I declined. I felt the story I wanted to tell was much longer, and the finale of season one actually left things in a good place. But they didn’t have to offer that. Good partners here.”
Fans of the series may well be disappointed to hear that Tomlin didn’t accept the three episodes to try to wrap the story up but given that a further four seasons were planned, it probably just seemed like it couldn’t be done, meaning the movie now joins The Sarah Connor Chronicles series and the movies Terminator: Genisys and Terminator: Dark Fate as stories set in the world of The Terminator that are just left hanging there.
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Maybe Jim Cameron’s upcoming reboot can fix all this. Doubtful though,
Tomlin also hinted that even though the series took the property in a new direction, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 would eventually appear: “If we got to season 4, it was something that could’ve been explored in a way that didn’t hijack the balance of things… I never wanted the show to feel like it was leading to that.”
It’s sad that the series has been cancelled, but I have to admit, I was excited for it, but, despite only coming out less than two years ago, I cannot recall a thing about the story… I don’t know if that reflects more on me or it.
Anyway, thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
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Source: DarkHorizons
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