On Feb 7, 9:02=A0pm, William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:34:48 -0500, "KalElFan" <kalel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >[crossposts from rec.arts.tv altered]
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> >"MikeM" <MichaelML...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:e8574b71-6c03-4da3-bd18-f0e4fed1a9d3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> ... If Sarah Conner loses, her son is killed by a
> >> Terminator and the series -- not to mention the world she and her
> >> buddies inhabit -- is gone. But if she succeeds, and somehow manages
> >> to stop the construction of the intelligent supercomputer known as
> >> Skynet, then...
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> >> ... the protector won't be assembled
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> >Not necessarily. =A0The two writing constraints that the show now has,
> >in terms of the time travel element, can be described as:
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> > =A0(i) the human protector from the first movie (John Connor's
father),
> > =A0must go back to circa 1982 and conceive John. =A0The Terminator
> > =A0must also go back to be the nemesis back then; and
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> > =A0(ii) the subsequent terminator and machine protector from T2,
> > =A0and the current terminators and protector (Cameron) depicted in
> > =A0this series, must likewise go back (unless the series somehow
> > =A0changes its own history by doubling back on itself; let's assume
> > =A0they don't do that).
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> Actually, these aren't required. =A0The show seems to take the position
th=
at
> changing the future doesn't retroactively change the past, and once a
> future person/object travels to the past, it is part of that past.
=A0Thus=
,
> if changes made after Reese arrives in the past cause Reese to not
travel
> to the past in the changed future, the Reese that did travel to the past
> was still there in the past. =A0Similarly, if Cameron's intervention
leads=
to
> her not being built in the future, the Cameron in the past still exists.
> The change doesn't retroactively make her go poof.
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Which means that we are speaking here about parallel universes,
meaning going to the past changes nothing to your world but creates a
new universe, meaning there is no interest in time travel, meaning all
the story has no purpose at all ! So Skynet sent a Terminator in the
past to kill John Connor, but who cares, it will just create a new
world where there is no John Connor, but do nothing in the universe
where Skynet lost the war. And if parallel universes exist, there is
an infinite number of them, so one more, one less, why the f... send
someone in the past to stop the Terminator ?
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