The line that separates day and night is called the terminator. It is also referred to as the 'grey line' and the 'twilight zone.' It is a fuzzy line due to our atmosphere bending sunlight. In fact, the atmosphere bends sunlight by half a degree, which is about 37 miles (60 km). It is commonly thought that while half of the Earth is covered in darkness, the other half is covered in sunlight. This is actually not true because of the bending of the sunlight results in the land covered by sunlight having greater area than the land covered by darkness.
The shape of the terminator curve changes with the seasons. This difference is especially noticeable when the terminator curve from an equinox is compared to the terminator curve from a solstice. There are three different datasets that show the terminator during 2007. In 2007, the spring equinox was March 21, the fall equinox was September 23, the summer solstice was June 21, and the winter solstice was December 22. During the equinox, the sun can be observed directly over the equator. This means that day and night are approximately the same length. The equinox is also thought of as the start of spring and fall. Because at equinox there is no tilt of the Earth with respect to the sun, the terminator line is parallel to the axis of the Earth and to lines of longitude. The solstice occurs when the Earth's axis tilts most toward or away from the sun, causing the sun to be further north or south of the equator than any other time. The shortest day of the year is winter solstice and the longest day is summer solstice. When the Earth is tilted away from the sun, the sun appears south of the equator and when the Earth is titled toward the sun, the sun appears north of the equator. During solstice, the terminator line is at its greatest angle with respect to the axis of the Earth, which is approximately 23.5 degrees.
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This dataset shows the terminator through the entire year with has one image for each day, so that the changes in the terminator angle are easy to see.
Terminator 2
So far, the Terminator franchise has been as indestructible as the murderous robots that just can't get over Sarah Connor. But after the disappointing performance ofTerminator: Dark Fate, it looks like studio Paramount has vanquished the cybernetic threat once and for all, just without the happy ending of future sequels and adventures. But is there room for another chapter in the Terminator story amidst all the time-travel and alternate timelines?
The Terminator 1984
The last three Terminator films have all attempted to push the franchise in new directions and explore the timeline with more depth. 2009's Terminator Salvation starred a fiery Christian Bale as a young John Connor taking the fight to the machines in the post-apocalypse. The plan was for Bale to headline a new Terminator trilogy, but alas, it was not meant to be. After the company with the rights to the series filed for bankruptcy, plans for the two sequels were completely scrapped — which meant when Terminator: Genisys rolled around in 2015, it quickly became a soft reboot for the entire franchise. At this point, the studio should've just called it Terminator: Reboot.
However, ambition clearly got the best of Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions for a second time. Originally, this soft-reboot trilogy was also going to include a TV series that would tie into the new timeline set up by the Emilia Clarke-led Genisys. And in fairness, the film actually played with some fascinating ideas. How would John Connor's new status as a T-3000 affect the world? Well, audiences would never find out, because the movie's $440.6 million worldwide box office earnings weren't enough to warrant future films running with that idea. Another Terminator film followed, but it was different ... and made about half the amount of money Genisys did.
Terminator 4
The trouble with Terminator: Dark Fate
When Terminator: Dark Fate reared its head in 2019, it actually had a lot going for it. One of the biggest selling points was the return of Sarah Connor herself, the incomparable Linda Hamilton, as she reunited with Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 on-screen for the first time since T2: Judgement Day. And with the film being led by the brilliant Mackenzie Davis as brutal human-machine hybrid Grace, all the ingredients were there for Dark Fate to succeed.
Terminator Salvation
The direct sequel to T2 ignored all the films from the last 20 years, forging a new path involving a completely different robotic threat to Skynet called Legion. Same threat, different name, sure. But by the time the credits rolled, Dark Fate had backed itself into a strange corner after killing off both Grace and Schwarzenegger's domesticated T-800. Davis was meant to return in future sequels as Grace, but it would be a new version of the character raised by both Sarah Connor and future resistance leader Dani.
During Davis' late 2020 appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she revealed how her robot-killing hybrid machine was originally set to return in the planned sequels. 'It was gonna be a sort of timeline thing, where there'd be another timeline that you'd explore. Like, there's no resurrection, but she came from the future, so...' Davis said, trailing off.
All these reboots are enough to make Doc Brown's head hurt. So. Many. Timelines.
Terminator Movies In Order
Audiences probably don't want a Terminator 7
At this point, Terminator 7 could happen, but it doesn't seem very likely. After Dark Fate's disappointing box office reception, making just $261 million on an $185 million budget, it seems like the franchise's — ahem – fate has been sealed. It's disappointing since James Cameron was intending to write the future sequels after producing Dark Fate; given the franchise's recent reliance on CGI, it would've been interesting to see if Cameron could've brought it back to its practical-effects roots. (We all remember when we first saw a fake Schwarzenegger head cut out its own eyeball in The Terminator, right?)
Arguably a bigger question here is whether audiences even want to see a Terminator 7. Davis thinks that audiences are bored of the franchise, which isn't surprising since the six films have exhausted a number of different methods of continuation — sequels, prequels, hard reboots, and soft reboots. (There's no wonder Terminator has been parodied in everything from Family Guy to Rick and Morty.) As Davis told NME in June 2020, 'I really loved [Terminator: Dark Fate] and I'm so proud of what we did, but there wasn't a demand for it [at the box office], and to think that there'd be a demand for a seventh film is quite insane. You should just pay attention to what audiences want.'
It seems apparent that Skynet and the Terminators have finally been defeated — not by John Connor, Sarah Connor, or an alternate-timeline T-800, but by audiences growing too tired of time-traveling killer robots. For now, it looks like Terminator 7 isn't going to come to fruition. That is, until someone from the future comes back to persuade Paramount and Skydance to revive it, and the cycle starts all over again.