There were a couple of interesting things to Terminator, but I stopped watching after only a few episodes because of one nagging question.
How can a man who is emasculated by the two women protecting him ever turn out to be the leader of the free world? I remember an old Bugs Bunny cartoon that opened with printed words on the screen. "The Klondike - where men are men and women are women. (A darned good arrangement!)"
I miss that arrangement.
That was actually a big part of the internal conflict in the show, everybody desperately wanted to protect but how’s he supposed to develop the skills necessary to save the world if they never give him a chance to do anything more interesting than re-arrange supplies. I wouldn’t say they emasculated him, but they were certainly over protective. As the show went on he developed more independence, of course he’s a teenager so a lot of that independence was making very stupid decisions, which of course is why they wanted to protect him all the time.