Linda Hamilton is Back, and I Still Want Her to Choke Me
The ‘Terminator’ star can terminate me any day of the week.
The sixth Terminator just came out, and it has sparked more discussion than it’s probably worth (note: I say this as a huge fan of the Terminator franchise). As critics and audiences alike go on about the new additions to the cast, the film’s supposed “political correctness,” and whether or not the latest installment is even necessary, it’s hard not to wonder why so many people are neglecting the most immediately obvious and noteworthy aspect of T6: how hot Linda Hamilton is.
Seriously, Hamilton is the rare action movie star who is genuinely cool, badass, and sexy as fuck. Her reappearance as Sarah Connor in the film is the only thing that really sets it apart from the mediocre and at times abysmal Terminators 3 through 5 (well, that, and there’s nothing in T6 that can really top the general absurdity of Genisys). As you watch Hamilton duel androids, grapple with destiny, and reinvent the very mythos of the Terminator franchise in Dark Fate, it becomes more clear than ever that Linda Hamilton is the glue that holds the Terminator films together, keeping them from teetering into full-blown awfulness (sorry, Arnold). Everything else is just background noise.
Apart from the actual role she plays in Dark Fate, there is another stand-out facet of Linda Hamilton’s performance: her arms, which are still amazing after all these years (gravity-defyingly so). I truly, honestly don’t want to make my fellow Linda-ites uncomfortable, nor do I want to end up on some probably very long FBI watch list, but I feel the need to put it out there that if Linda Hamilton could find the time to strangle me with her magnificent arms and/or ram one of her robo-eliminating fists so far inside of me that my brains ooze out of my nostrils, I would be thankful. Like, really thankful. Like, really, really thankful.
