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TAKE ONE Presents...Author: TAKE ONE
TAKE ONE Presents... is series of critical analyses of beloved film franchises from the TAKEONECinema.net crew. We are currently running The Impossipod where we critically analyse all the Mission: Impossible franchise films in release order. Our first series was The Xenopod, a podcast series where we watched and analysed all the Alien franchise films in release order, and our second series was The Dinopod where we discussed the Jurassic Park / World franchise films. Language: en Genres: Film History, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Pod With Us If You Want To Live 1: THE TERMINATOR (1984)
Episode 1
Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
TAKE ONE Presents... is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. In this first episode, Simon and Jim discuss James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR. We talk about how the film came about through Cameron's dogged and occasionally dickish persistence, "tech-noir" as a genre, the film's situatedness in the 1980s and how that lends the film an interesting sense of temporality, how this film is a great example of good pacing and immediacy, sexual politics and the representation of feminism through action heroines, and nuclear anxiety against AGI anxiety.Content warnings: murder and violent death; nuclear war and apocalyptic destruction; body horror and removal of skin and eye stuff; the Holocaust; abortion; pessimism about the future.Our theme song is Terminator Theme Song (32Stitches Remix) by 32Stitches available on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/32stitches/terminator-32stitches-remixFull references for this episode available in Zotero at https://www.zotero.org/groups/5642177/take_one/collections/KFB8CEB2/collection
