Linda Hamilton is great in T2, and acts about as sanely as one could expect given the circumstances. I actually like Claire Danes in T3, if only because there’s a weird glee in seeing a usually-austere actress shoot big guns and scream. Anyway, the issue of assertive female characters is part of the movie’s greater lack of humanity – I just thought given the series’ pedigree it was worth singling out.

I believe it is decommissioned and not decomissioned. I could be wrong but I am not wrong in saying that Terminator 2 and 3 lacked a true heroine. Linda Hamilton not only did not save the day in Terminator 2, but she was pretty much useless. Aside from nearly killing an innocent man, and acting completely insane, she also showed us what a horrible mother she had become. Terminator 2 worked more as a film following the relationship between a father and son (as lame as that seems). In Terminator 3 we the audience are subjected to a miscast Claire Danes and a completely insulting sex-bot.
So did you really expect Hollywood producers and director MCG to actually use the female cast in any interesting ways? Perhaps you have more faith in Hollywood than most people?

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Feel free to correct my horrible grammar.