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

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:34:48 -0500, "KalElFan"
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>"MikeM" <MichaelMLGPR@[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.  

He already did that.  He doesn't need to do that again.