3:45 PM 5/22/09 · At the point I'm writing this I haven't actually seen Terminator: Salvation yet. Was originally supposed to see it next Sunday with
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Was I the only guy that picked up that Skynet is born of the same time-loop that John Conner is? Skynet technology was developed in T2 by a guy who was reverse engineering the original T-800 arm that got chopped off in the first movie.
Not sure what you mean. T2 is valid but when that ended and the tech was destroyed, inclusding the research that should've been it...till T3 rolled around and revealed that this particular future was bound to happen, one way or another, regardless.
Time travel is the new space travel. In the 60s and 70s space opera was the final frontier, with Star Trek making the conventions mainstream and Star Wars making them saleable. Then in the mid-80s Terminator and Back to the Future came along, and ever since then even space opera has been about time travel as often as not. Look at all the time travel in all the Star Trek spinoffs, including this month's movie. Look at the popularity of the Doctor Who revival, and how often time travel is now worked into the stories instead of just being the agency used to get the heroes into the stories. James T. Kirk and Luke Skywalker gave us the universe, but John Connor, Marty McFly and the Doctor have given us eternity.
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Time travel is the new space travel. In the 60s and 70s space opera was the final frontier, with Star Trek making the conventions mainstream and Star Wars making them saleable. Then in the mid-80s Terminator and Back to the Future came along, and ever since then even space opera has been about time travel as often as not. Look at all the time travel in all the Star Trek spinoffs, including this month's movie. Look at the popularity of the Doctor Who revival, and how often time travel is now worked into the stories instead of just being the agency used to get the heroes into the stories. James T. Kirk and Luke Skywalker gave us the universe, but John Connor, Marty McFly and the Doctor have given us eternity.
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