Time travel in the Terminator/TSCC universe.

[intrepid01]

I have read many articles as to how time travel works in the Terminator universe, and most explanations focus on alternate or branching time lines to hold their arguments together, but I would say that ignores the most important fact about Terminator time travel, why it was created and used in the first place.

And in the Terminator universe that is

Comments

[roxybisquaint]

Aside from the geeky fun of thinking about the John-Kyle loop, time travel theory really isn't that crucial to Terminator or TSCC. People have their own pet views of single rewritable timeline or multiple branching timelines (and some others) and most can be made to work. I prefer multi timelines because it's more logical to me, but I think it's more preference than necessity

[intrepid01]

The sole purpose of a paradox is to give a reason why something isn’t possible by tying cause and effect into a loop which cancels itself out. The preverbal “grandfather effect,” kill your grandfather before your father is conceived then you won’t exist, if you don’t exist then you can’t go back in time and kill your grandfather

[roxybisquaint]

Oh I never got back to this because of my LJ lapse for the past few weeks. But I think I'd misunderstood the part about paradoxes in your original post. Now that you've explained that a bit differently, I'm in agreement. I think. There are no paradoxes because what would be a paradox can't happen because the future is changed. That's how I'm understanding your view on paradoxes now and I agree with that

[drenkrelar]

My view on time travel is similar, but not quite the same. It's a plot device in TSCC so how it works really doesn't matter

[intrepid01]

I ignored whatever T3 and T4 said about time travel because while both these films did have good points, they are clearly exploitation rubbish made by people who clearly didn’t understand what the first two film were about and went on to piss on their greatness. Sorry to be so blunt