For over the last three decades, the Terminator movies have been running the same tedious plot of super intelligent AI hive minds. Skynet keeps trying to stop the possibility of human resistance against its complete domination in the future by sending Terminators to change events in the past—finally, with Netflix’s Terminator Zero, the major loophole in the system is addressed. What if the timeline itself is not linear, as it is most often assumed to be, which means an alteration of events of the past will create a completely new timeline—without affecting the original one at all? The timeline trouble, along with a set of philosophical questions like the worth of human existence, the notion of creation of life, and the dialectical ideologies of sentience and life itself regarding humans and machines, is the central premise of Terminator Zero, a brilliant anime entry to the franchise that...