We’re back with the third installment of this series looking at the Terminator film franchise. In this week’s episode, we examine Terminator 3 which, although it was not a total flop, nevertheless was almost universally recognised as an inferior movie compared to the first two. The failure of the movie was not, however, in the quality of its acting, special effects, or editing. The real problem with Terminator 3 was in the story. What we will see in this week’s analysis is that T3 failed to create the core archetypal meanings that had made the first and second movies such great stories. Without this grounding, the film lacked emotional depth. By analysing this failure, we not only learn to see why T3 failed, we also gain a deeper appreciation of how good the storytelling was in the first two movies.