Oh come the frak on. This can’t possibly be true. But it is, so we’re all just going to have to get over it, and realize we’re not going to get the slam-bang, hardcore, pedal-to-the-metal actioner we’ve grown used to in the “Terminator” franchise, because the Halcyon Co., who are making the latest “Terminator” trilogy starting with T4, has just announced their intentions of aiming for a PG-13 rating with the new films.

Variety has the bad news:

“The ratings have changed,” said Halcyon co-founder and co-CEO Victor Kubicek, a broker-turned-writer-producer. “The PG-13 has increased in intensity.”

Move follows last year’s “Die Hard” film, “Live Free or Die Hard,” which went out with a PG-13 after three prior R-rated installments. That pic went on to gross $382.1 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing in the series.

A family-friendly rating opens many doors, including a “Terminator Salvation” licensing deal for action figures with Playmates Toys.

Right. “Increased in intensity.” Whatever.

What do you think about this? Will a PG-13 rating affect the brutal nature of, you know, machines trying annihilate all of humankind via a holocaust? I mean, for God’s sake, this movie is supposed to take place in the future, where the conditions has to be BRUTAL and DEADLY and NIHILISTIC as hell.