Twist No. 1? Sarah Connor (Game of Thrones Emilia Clarke) isnt the innocent she was when Linda Hamilton first sported feathered hair and acid-washed jeans in the role. Nor is she Hamiltons steely zero-body-fat warrior in 1991s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Instead, the mother of humanitys messiah was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9. Since then, shes been raised by (brace yourself) Schwarz*eneggers Terminatoran older T-800 she calls Popswho is programmed to guard rather than to kill. As a result, Sarah is a highly trained antisocial recluse whos great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion.
Since she was 9 years old, she has been told everything that was supposed to happen, says Ellison, who credits James Camerons T2 as one of the *reasons he chose to spend his career making movies. But Sarah fundamentally rejects that destiny. She says, Thats not what I want to do. Its her decision that drives the story in a very different direction.
