17th July 2008, 10:56 PM
If you ask me the second one is much better than the first one. I could have lived without a lot of the "I'm an emotionally unstable freak of psychology" stuff the woman had, and had MORE "I'm a robot coming to grips with the meaning of my existance" stuff.
By the way, it's not a time loop, it's a time paradox. A time loop would mean that whatever he did in the past would make him go into the past, meaning the future is set in stone.
This basically just says that they changed the future to prevent the robots from existing in the first place, which would thereby prevent Mr T-1000 from coming back to do just that, hence a paradox. They never really addressed how the paradox is resolved though... I suppose we're to assume when someone travels back in time it splits into two realities, and the two robots are basically from an alternate future from the perspective of the humans.
By the way, it's not a time loop, it's a time paradox. A time loop would mean that whatever he did in the past would make him go into the past, meaning the future is set in stone.
This basically just says that they changed the future to prevent the robots from existing in the first place, which would thereby prevent Mr T-1000 from coming back to do just that, hence a paradox. They never really addressed how the paradox is resolved though... I suppose we're to assume when someone travels back in time it splits into two realities, and the two robots are basically from an alternate future from the perspective of the humans.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)