22nd July 2008, 2:33 AM
im going to ignore the whole "I just saw t2" and all... that, yeah. God.
I attempted to gain a solid understanding of hypotheticals in time as a dynamic but holy humping penguin dick I lost brain cells keeping track of all the rhetorical-feces that filled countless shitbuckets. The good news though is that theterminator movies are easy to understand now because it's a fucking movie and doesn't aply to any actual working theories other than "its really well thought out and badass". If you want to make it work you have to use fate as a precursor, events happen and must complete its cycle. You can prolong it but it has to eventually play out. ie: the machine future *must* happen, its the only way the time line makes any sense (ie: regardless of their actions, nothing in the future changes). Whether John lives or dies, whether the terminator is sent back or not, the future will unfold with the same outcome, which actually is still left at 'war' with the humans on the lose side. In a quasi-surrealism the machine war future is the current time line with everything prior as the swiss cheese NRA theme park for the Conners. No matter what they do, they follow any infinite path to eventual machine war with the dot dot dot question mark on who's going to win. Sarah made that realization is a stroke of brilliant filmmaking and tried to think 'outside' the continuum and still failed because lets face it, fate's a cunt.
I attempted to gain a solid understanding of hypotheticals in time as a dynamic but holy humping penguin dick I lost brain cells keeping track of all the rhetorical-feces that filled countless shitbuckets. The good news though is that theterminator movies are easy to understand now because it's a fucking movie and doesn't aply to any actual working theories other than "its really well thought out and badass". If you want to make it work you have to use fate as a precursor, events happen and must complete its cycle. You can prolong it but it has to eventually play out. ie: the machine future *must* happen, its the only way the time line makes any sense (ie: regardless of their actions, nothing in the future changes). Whether John lives or dies, whether the terminator is sent back or not, the future will unfold with the same outcome, which actually is still left at 'war' with the humans on the lose side. In a quasi-surrealism the machine war future is the current time line with everything prior as the swiss cheese NRA theme park for the Conners. No matter what they do, they follow any infinite path to eventual machine war with the dot dot dot question mark on who's going to win. Sarah made that realization is a stroke of brilliant filmmaking and tried to think 'outside' the continuum and still failed because lets face it, fate's a cunt.