Spoilers ahead for Terminator: Dark Fate. Making sequels to Terminator 2: Judgment Day has always been a problem. The ending, although portrayed as ambiguous, is fairly binary. Either Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), her son John (Edward Furlong), and the T-101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) averted Judgment Day or they didn’t. The ending errs on the side of positivity otherwise the previous 2 hours and 17 minutes were an exercise in nihilism where nothing matters and your choices can’t affect the future. Every sequel since has diminished the ending of Judgment Day because the story “needs” to continue (because studios …