Happiness is...
An hour long discussion with the man about time travel.
I've always gone with the multiple timelines theory, but
life_on_queen argues there's a single timeline in the TSCC verse. So after a brief "single timeline!" / "multiple timelines!" exchange, I took the discussion to real life and mentioned it to the man. He wasn't interested in talking
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Oh isnt it next week we find out terminators are sent way into the past? lol. benjamin franklin terminator.
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That might make more sense if you look at the diagram I've added to my original post.
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I just thought of this....If sarah and john jump too far back or forward, then they might get stranded. John needs to be there for the war at the right age he will be in order to send people, terminators, build time machines. Its not like the Delorean, where the machine goes with. If he ever does a major jump he needs a tech to go with him, or skynet might win in his absence.
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Also, I don't think we have to worry about more time machines popping up. Having Sarah and John jump forward to get them to present day was a nice device to set the series up, but if they did more time jumping themselves, I'm sure there would be much eye-rolling among the fans. It's bad enough we've got new people and machines popping in all the time.
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Heh. If TSCC writers were concerned with timelines they wouldn't have screwed up simple dates so quickly in the series. But I get the feeling James Cameron put a lot of thought into it. I think he settled for a paradoxical loop in a single timeline, though. This has to happen because it did, kind of thing. The problem I have with that is it runs counter to "The future's not set. There is not fate but what we make." He wanted it both ways ;)
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Oh, good point about John not warning Sarah to destroy all the T-800 parts! That really never occurred to me. Then again, there are lots of things John could be telling Sarah via time travelers that he never does. But I agree that there had to be an original timeline to the story where Skynet does not develop from the hand and chip left at the Cyberdyne factory. I also think the first John Connor (who sent Kyle back) would have had a different father.
I updated my post to include a diagram if you're curious what we were drawing.
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My roommate and I once did this with 12 Monkeys. We used a whiteboard.
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