This was a first full, lengthy article on The Terminator written before it hit the theaters, and published only days after the movie premiered. Starlog Magazine #88 from November 1984 has a distinction of giving The Terminator its first spotlight. And it isn't just a filler article - that's the thing about Starlog, it was blowing other publications away - always had the most interesting content, pictures and exclusives. They use some quotes from the Press kit, but all three pages dedicated to the film are original material.
They begin the article with the report from the set, and they were there when the Terminator was shooting the wrong Sarah Connor, Oh, if only they had photos from the set.
Still, they include lots of interesting pics from the set and behind the scenes, and they go all out - they exclusively spoke to Jim Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gale Hurd and Stan Winston (who is cited here as someone who worked on Heartbeeps TV show, which he did, but it's funny to read that it was a time when this was what he was most known for). Hurd recalls the story from the press kit how Jim and her developed the story way back on the set of Battle Beyond Stars, and that the script was finished in May of 1982. Stan Winston humbly admits that Cameron brought his own drawings for the designs, and Cameron talks about science fiction and technology.
Arnold seems a bit confused by the movie and was still in the process of shooting when interviewed. Thus, when he explains the plot, he says that the unborn child will revolt about the future Government, and even says there will be a scene in which Terminator gets drunk on beer and watches TV, which was never present in any drafts or any iteration of the story. So either Arnold is joking here, or it was one of his ideas he was hoping to pitch, or he just misunderstood another scene.
Understandably, without seeing the movie yet, the writer of the article doesn't fully understand the concept of a Cyborg yet, and it looks like they imagine something like Roy Batty. They do refer to the Terminator as automaton and android.
With Starlog, this is the best start The Terminator could have in the printed media.
