Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines by David Hagberg
01/09/2003 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
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While waiting for the film to come out
on video, I couldn’t really let an opportunity to pass to read
the novelisation of the film. Quite how it’ll compare to the
film, as novelisations are written as the movie is in production,
only time will tell.
I’ve read enough about the film to make sense of the scenes
I’ve seen so it probably means it’s a pretty close adaptation
even if I’m a little confused about who sent the Terminator
850 model back from the future.
John Connor is now in his mid-20s, doing various
things, often illegally, to earn his way in the world while at
the same time avoiding all ways that would like would give him
a digital identity that he could be tracked by. After patching
a leg injury in a vet’s surgery, he is interrupted by the vet,
Kate Brewster, and both of them are forced to flee from a female-looking
Terminator aka T-X, the Terminatrix.
Out to stop it is another Terminator model 850 sent
to rescue them and any of their future lieutenants on the T-X’s
hit list. From here on, it is one chase across country to keep
both parties apart and to figure out a way to destroy the much
more powerful T-X model and to prevent Skynet going on line and
Judgement Day.
Moving on from the original two films, Cyberdyne’s
research had been duplicated and was being set up by the army.
Just because Kyle Reese’s information that Cyberdyne had created
the original processors didn’t necessarily mean that they were
the ones who put Skynet on line.
There was also a direct acknowledgement to the other
films in the design and creation of the Terminator models started
from human designs rather than Skynet creating them. Kinda messes
up the stories based on Jim Cameron’s line of books in that we
have a William Candy as the design for the 800/850 flesh but tends
to support my logic that Tie-Ins don’t mean anything to production
companies.
In many respects, I can see why the film is being
regarded as a success just from the information from the novelisation.
It brings out a strong theory that you can’t change the past only
put the elements into place that will make it turn into the future.
To say more will only act as a spoiler for those
who are going to buy the book. My only regret is that it’s a shame
that there wasn’t a photo-insert included. Like the other Terminator
novelisations, this book is bound to sell. Just make sure you
have a first edition.
GF Willmetts
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