Re: Is "Terminator" stuck in a "Gilligan's Island"-style dilemma?

William George Ferguson wrote:


> 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.

<futurama>

Time-travel duplicates are doomed. DOOMED!

</futurama>




Brian

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