22nd March 2007, 2:32 PM
DJ/
I dunno about stereotypical but such is the nature of the beast when dealing with time travel stories. I figure that kind of setup (where John becomes the staplehead figure that grounds the time-line of skynett ruling the world) would allow for a closure of the whole series - John has to stop his own existence from ever forming in order to ensure that there's hope for a skynetless future. So, in full math effect, John knows he must send Reese to start the time line of events that leads up to the machine's taking over in order to interupt that time line. So the movie itself would take place in 1984, John would have to find Reese and Sarah, inform them, and stop the T-800 model and make sure its completely melted down which is what John remembers from T2 (but in this time line, will keep T2 from happening as well).
Skynett (in the future) witnesses the turning of events and sees a possible threat to its existence and pulls no stops in deciding its next course of action: Instead of sending its models used for infiltrating human camps in its present, it sends a small army of its machines using more advanced methods of time travel. Skynett believes that by infiltrating the past not only can it secure its future but bolster its power by taking over the humans in 1984 instead of in 2003.
The end result is that if, in the original terminator Sarah Conner was killed by the Terminator - there's a chance of skynett never being built. By Skynett's own hand, sending the machines to 1984 to kill John and Sarah as well as John's father while starting global domination earlier (before the actual inception of skynett itself being a commander of sorts in the future) it destroys its OWN time line, meaning everything is up in the air and there is no fate, no followed time line and the end result could be anything.
Skynett itself wouldn't be able to put together the paradox because it's simply illogical and non-computing to an entirely math based system grounded in human-perspective thought and design.
The end of the film would have John no longer existing in any time frame, Reese dead and Sarah going back to her life in 1984 with absolutely no idea of her now nonexistent future life with the T-800 fragments no longer in the factory that were used to base off the creation that lead to Skynett even possibly showcasing the black scientist dude with his family as a computer networking guru who'll never get to advance the future techs.
Then, at the very end of the film, it's revealed that Skynett figured it all out at the last second and sent its own programing in to the past, on board a satellite built by the Russians, in 1951 and on May 12th 1951 at 10 AM eastern pacific time began transmitting the blueprints to build a skynett for Russia.
SNAP
I dunno about stereotypical but such is the nature of the beast when dealing with time travel stories. I figure that kind of setup (where John becomes the staplehead figure that grounds the time-line of skynett ruling the world) would allow for a closure of the whole series - John has to stop his own existence from ever forming in order to ensure that there's hope for a skynetless future. So, in full math effect, John knows he must send Reese to start the time line of events that leads up to the machine's taking over in order to interupt that time line. So the movie itself would take place in 1984, John would have to find Reese and Sarah, inform them, and stop the T-800 model and make sure its completely melted down which is what John remembers from T2 (but in this time line, will keep T2 from happening as well).
Skynett (in the future) witnesses the turning of events and sees a possible threat to its existence and pulls no stops in deciding its next course of action: Instead of sending its models used for infiltrating human camps in its present, it sends a small army of its machines using more advanced methods of time travel. Skynett believes that by infiltrating the past not only can it secure its future but bolster its power by taking over the humans in 1984 instead of in 2003.
The end result is that if, in the original terminator Sarah Conner was killed by the Terminator - there's a chance of skynett never being built. By Skynett's own hand, sending the machines to 1984 to kill John and Sarah as well as John's father while starting global domination earlier (before the actual inception of skynett itself being a commander of sorts in the future) it destroys its OWN time line, meaning everything is up in the air and there is no fate, no followed time line and the end result could be anything.
Skynett itself wouldn't be able to put together the paradox because it's simply illogical and non-computing to an entirely math based system grounded in human-perspective thought and design.
The end of the film would have John no longer existing in any time frame, Reese dead and Sarah going back to her life in 1984 with absolutely no idea of her now nonexistent future life with the T-800 fragments no longer in the factory that were used to base off the creation that lead to Skynett even possibly showcasing the black scientist dude with his family as a computer networking guru who'll never get to advance the future techs.
Then, at the very end of the film, it's revealed that Skynett figured it all out at the last second and sent its own programing in to the past, on board a satellite built by the Russians, in 1951 and on May 12th 1951 at 10 AM eastern pacific time began transmitting the blueprints to build a skynett for Russia.
SNAP