Terminator: Genisys has faced its share of challenges to get to this, its first trailer -- but lacking a sense of history is not one of them.
So now we know: the reboot of the reboot won't be afraid to acknowledge its predecessors. It also won't be afraid to re-write them -- there appears to be a significant amount of retconning going on here.
Shot for shot, the trailer released Thursday harks back to some element from just about every Terminator film -- OK maybe they left out Salvation -- including a significantly younged-down Arnold Schwarzenegger, a liquid-metal Terminator and the lines "Come with me if you want to live" and "I'll be back."
Like we ever doubted that.