On Feb 7, 11:48 am, jojo <jojl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 7, 9:02 pm, William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:34:48 -0500, "KalElFan"
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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. The two writing constraints that the show now has,
> > >in terms of the time travel element, can be described as:
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> > > (i) the human protector from the first movie (John Connor's
father),
> > > must go back to circa 1982 and conceive John. The Terminator
> > > must also go back to be the nemesis back then; and
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> > > (ii) the subsequent terminator and machine protector from T2,
> > > and the current terminators and protector (Cameron) depicted in
> > > this series, must likewise go back (unless the series somehow
> > > changes its own history by doubling back on itself; let's assume
> > > they don't do that).
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> > Actually, these aren't required. The show seems to take the position
that
> > 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.
Thus,
> > 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. Similarly, 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 ?
If you think too hard about time travel stories they don't make any
sense. Just go with the flow and enjoy the story, otherwise you just
get a headache.
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