the terminator series part 1 was published in 1984. it mentioned nuclear fire
historical note: this was "in the old world" when politics emphasized the danger between soviet and u.s. nuclear weapons.
STORY: in 2029 in l.a. the buildings were destroyed. remnants of walls remaind with twisted metal indicating heat and explosions. a hovercraft flew and lasers zapd. people with guns moved under fire by machine drones. a tracked vehicle rode over skulls which indicated heat of the "nuclear fire". the war was between machine against man. the war had raged for decades by 2029 but the final batle is in 1984.
in 1984 l.a., a trash truck was raising its electronic arm that stopped. no power. flashing lightning zapped. the driver saw a naked muscular man [schwartzneger which is repeating two words that each mean black, doubled black black] appear and fled. the naked man went to get clothing. three tough teens saw him come and teased him about no clothing. the naked man said "your clothes give them to me". [note the american style revealing the topic in contrast to brit style "give them to me your clothes" in several harry potter examples where the pronoun is explained later, but then the sentence is unclear until the end but in u.s. the topic is first so the phrase is understandable.] the tough teens pulled knives that snap open perhaps jumping out straight or swinging out. they are not scared of the muscular guy kuz they have switchblades... and wave them in self defense.
the naked guy wanted their garments so he attacked and punched the arm of one so hard he flew to the side. muscles threw another back against a gate. while hitting these two the the third used the knife to stab the attacker... who started bleeding but did not fall. instead he plunged his hand into the stabber and murdered [cute how fans refuse to call the murderer who started murdering and continued more, refuse the word murdered while blaming the protector guy for "stealing"] him... withdrawing a bloody hand. the corpse dropped. the one still conscious was scared enough to give his clothing.
elsewhere more bright lightning flashed. another naked man appeared exhibiting his own pain. he, named reese [actor biehn] commandeered pants for his mission from a street dweller. cops chased him. he commandeered a cop's pistol. Reese ran into a clothing shop and commandeered sneakers and a long coat. In an alley outside, he commandeered a shotgun from a cop car. Finding a phone book nearby, he found the name "Sarah Connor." meanwhile, in Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)'s home, a young waitress talked with her room mate Ginger about her boring life. meanwhile, muscular man stole a car and drove to a hunt shop. the worker showed him weapons and told the license process. muscles loaded the shotgun and shot the clerk.
muscles=m found the names "Sarah Connor" in a phone book. he came to the home of Sarah Connor. when she opened the door and said her name, he used the gun that he stole to murder her. as a result, at sara's job at the diner a lady led her to see a report about a murder victim with SAME name. later, at home Sarah's roommate, Ginger, prepared for for her date with her boyfriend, Matt. sara prepared for hers who cancelled. she saw news: cops announce the murder of another woman with her name.
outside, Sarah saw she was being followed, and entered a dance club. She tried to call Ginger who was making love. the Terminator attacked Matt and murdered him. using the laser aim gun he shot Ginger. after that he heard Sarah's voice on their answering machine saying where she was. T' entered the club. Reese was there and saw t' that saw Sarah. a dot from the laser aim pistol is on her. Reese repeatedly shot the murderer that got knocked down. Sarah felt shocked when she saw it stand up. it shot at Reese using the stolen uzi. reese jumped down to the floor. t' walked toward Sarah and shot. the woman behind her fell dead and her corpse held s' down. when t' aimed again, Reese hit the killer using the shotgun. t' got blasted out the window. r' told Sarah, "Come with me if you wanna live". t' chased them.
Reese and Sarah ran through an alley behind the club. t's vision and night vision is like a computer screen with data, like a robot, watching them flee. Reese shot the gas tank of a car which explodes. T walked through the flames and jumpd onto his car. t' smashd its fist through the windshield and was trying to grasp Sarah. Reese reversed it so t' flew off and down. Reese rode away. Terminator hit a cop (the screenwriter) and took his cop car which he drove to chase. t spoke like the cop's voice.
Reese explained to her that he is a sergeant with a serial number sent to protect her because Sarah is in danger. "the murderer chasing them is not a man but a machine called a "terminator" that is covered with living human skin to hide and appear human. They fled driving along alleys until entering a parking building. Sarah refused to accept such delusions and panicd that she is in a car with a crazy stranger so she bit his hand... but she knew her danger [+and remembered he had been stopping the murderer so needed him] so they switched vehicles.
Reese told her the story: later, and before his own birth, a nuclear death will come by a computer program that will control the military drones without human decisions. he grew in the ruins. He was enslaved to load corpses into ovens. her son will organize some of the few survivors for effective resistance and will send him to the present after he will have defeated Skynet and took control of the time machine that the computer will have built.
to be continued in part 1,2
