There are also amazing action scenes, whether it involves the T-800 fighting the T-1000, or defeating the police without killing any of them! It even includes lots of iconic scenes like the Mall scene and memorable dialogue, including "There is no fate, but what we make" and my personal favorite, "Hasta la vista, baby!" The T-1000, by the way, is such a terrifying and intimidating villain, where he is instead made out of liquid metal and can make his hands into swords and can mimic people's appearances and voices. The storyline is amazing, where the T-800 protects John Connor from another Terminator and helps him stop Judgement Day (August 29, 1996). Sarah Conner is much better here turning her from a scared girl to a hardcore badass, essentially turning her into the legend Kyle mentioned in the predecessor. This is the first time we meet this character. Speaking of John Connor, he proves himself to be cunning and witty, initially showing why he's the leader of the Resistance. It succeeds in turning the Terminator into a heroic character as he's re-programmed to protect John Connor and even tries to learn about human emotions. As John and his mother Sarah Conner go on the run with the T-800, the boy forms an unexpected bond with the robot. Another Terminator, the reprogrammed T-800, has been sent back to protect the boy. In this 1991 sequel set in the mid-1990s, several years after "The Terminator", which occurred in 1984 (not to be confused with the bestselling book of the same name by George Orwell), young John Connor, the key to civilization's victory over a future robot uprising, is the target of the shape-shifting T-1000, a Terminator sent from the future of 2029 to kill him. I'm a huge Terminator fan, and one of my all-time favorite sequels is also the best sequel film and the best Terminator film of all time. I'm also surprised there was only one other review for this - it definitely deserves many, many more 5-star reviews, and well done to Randall Frakes, for turning what I was expecting to be a simplistic book, into a mind blowing version of an equally brilliant film. I almost wish I had read them in order now, rather than reading the second one, simply because I hadn't bought the first one yet. I was expecting to read this in a couple of hours, but instead it took me a little over 48 hours, and I found myself completely sucked into the world of Sarah and John Connor and the Terminator. Normally, most novelizations are lifted straight from the screenplay, without any additional extras, and you can normally zip through them in hours, rather than days, particularly if you know the movie well. There is also an extra bit, which wasn't in the second film but was included in the third film. There's also more about what makes Miles Dyson tick, and his home life as well. There's more of an insight into the mind of Dr Silberman, as well as an insider's account of when the Terminator first walks into the bar. Especially ones where we see what is going on in the characters heads, which cannot come across in the film. Certain scenes are also extended - the introduction is extended past what it is in the movie, and there's a couple of extended/additional scenes. That is a particular one that stands out for me, the scene where I knew that this novelization was going to be one of the best. The description of some of the scenes is absolutely immense, including the motorbike/truck chase when the Terminators first find John Connor, there is a sentence where a normal person would describe it as a crash, the author describes it as an "earth shattering orgasm", which just blew my mind. Rather than just being a bare bones cash-in, like so many novelizations can be, this is a wonder to read, and makes me interested in watching all the Terminator films again - back to back. There's so much description in it, and there's also more of an insight into the characters, that didn't come across as so in the movie. What I loved about this book is that, even though it's only 240 pages, I found it to be a very dense 240 pages. (There's also one by Shaun Hutson, if you're interested - however I don't know what the difference is between the two.) I have to admit, I'm still yet to read the very first Terminator novelization, but considering it is also written by Randall Frakes, it might be something I have to buy/read as soon as.
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