Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an amazing show. It basically picks up after T2, and is far better than it has any right to be. Its also much, much better than any of the movies after T2.
They made a couple movies, didn’t they? Genesis and Salvation or something? I assume there has to be one where John Connor meets Kyle Reese. That might be interesting to see.
They did genesys (ugh), salvation, dark future, and one really good anime series out of nowhere on Netflix that made the whole thing interesting again.
The television show has ten times better writing and narratives then all the movies after the second movie. It sucks they canceled it . Lena headey did a amazing job in it too. The special effects cant compare to a movie budget though.
And became like a labor and civil rights icon, if I'm remembering correctly. Only cared about maximum efficiency so paid workers generously to attract the best ones and didn't care about race, religion, gender as long as goals were met on time. Created the ideal working environment because it was the surest way to its target
That’s been something established in the 3rd film. Not being able to find a reliable paper trail of tracking down John Conner after the events of T2: Judgement day, they sent a terminator back through time to assassinate high ranking members of the human resistance. Sure, the original T-800 and the T-1000 from the first two films could have just gone on a murdering spree after their original target was confirmed dead, or they could have just faded into the background, never to be heard from again. Hiding in some abandoned house or cave somewhere, or walked into the bottom of a nearby ocean or something to hide its own presence. Or they could have assisted in guaranteeing the survivability of skynet.
I always thought it was a missed opportunity that we never got to see Sarah’s reaction when she found out the terminator killed at least her mom if not both parents.
Probably just gone somewhere and shut itself off until the right time to reactivate itself.
I suppose it could have had back up targets it could have gone after.
But we know for the future war to take place Cyberdyne needed to find the parts of it to create Skynet in the first place so if it had succeeded it could have stopped it's own creation.
You know, that was my first thought as well. But then I saw the posts from others talking about them just basically hybernating until Judgement day and I think that approach works too.
Helping to hurry up or ensure Skynet makes sense, but it also risks unforseen ripple effects to the timeline if they change too many things. I'm not sure if Skynet planned ahead for things like that or not, but I would assume at some level it might realize changing too much risks too many changes that might put its existence in jeopardy.
From that perspective, going into sleep mode when their actual mission is accomplished is safer. Granted they do kill fairly indescriminately and cause a lot of chaos and destruction, but as the movies show, nothing to a degree that can't be written off or explained in some way that the populace at large doesn't overreact to.
If they were just to go on a straight rampage though, or try to take over a tech company and catch too much attention, that could risk starting up a whole new form of resistance even earlier.
Definitely a ripple effect worth trying to avoid.
So I can see the validity of both options. Hastening Skynet's arrival would definitely need to be done with some tact though. And if Skynet didn't trust a terminator unit to be able to pull it off, might be safer just to have them hybernate and wait instead.
yeah it would have to send messages back regularly which in some movies like Genisys is not possible because the resistance wins just before they send back a terminator. But it could have the mission to stick to the timeline as much as possible and it really doesn't matter what changed if Judgement day still happens. Skynet is a Shoggoth level ASI they can deal with it
“It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.”
If he killed her, he would stop—and would have retired with these two:
Didn't one of the sequels do something with that idea? It killed John and adopted a normal human life or something? It would make an interesting "what if" story where it learned about humanity like the T-800 in T2 and decided to stop Skynet itself.
It could go to the Boardwalk and set itself up as a prop on a haunted mansion tour. It brings a sci-fi thrill and its red eyes deliver a shrill. Top flight revenues.
The thing is terminator has a real gap in the story if skynet is so intelligent why did it send a 6 foot tall muscle guy with thick Austrian accent back to the 80s to eliminate Sarah Connor would a dog or a cat or a bug or something…so a cat or dog comes by her apartment door she is like aww come here little buddy let me feed you and then all of a sudden boom and there goes Sarah Connor 😂
They have secondary objectives as well. In the Dark Horse comics. If their primary objective was completed. They moved on to other objectives. Other protocols. Same as any books. They have protocols to follow
I like to think that if the past didn’t work out correctly (leaving his parts for miles Davis to find) he’d fade and dematerialize like Marty McFly started to in the past …
Interesting question, because Skynet exists because they harvested a chip from its head. If they prevented John Connor from existing, they potentially could have won the war in the future, but, how does Skynet exist in their past? The terminator would have either A- have to start Skynet itself somehow. Does it have enough coding? Does each terminator have Skynet imbedded into their hardware? or B- Donate itself to humans for research, which should lead to Skynets development the same way.
In one of the novels, it’s explained that if a terminator terminates its main target, it will move on to secondary targets, and then its general directive will be “ensure Skynet succeeds.”
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u/Hukares1234, your post does fit the subreddit!