Terminator Salvation

If there’s one thing I have learned from the Terminator movies, it’s that we dogs are a vital part of the resistance, alerting luckless humans to terminators in their midst. Obviously, though, that technique took a while to develop, because we don’t see any dogs in Terminator Salvation. In fact instead of dogs it seems to be the shaking hands of a human pup that provides the sole early-warning system for impending attack. To me this hardly seems to be a reliable system, and I propose that the events of this movie bear my hunch out. I think this is a cautionary tale in more ways than one: namely, don’t go into the technological apocalypse without dogs! For that bit of subtext I applaud the filmmakers. They’re not subtle about it--there’s a lot of destruction as a result of there not being any dogs in the resistance camp--and I think they drive the point home very well. Kudos.