In article <mg0sq39jsdrd6b1vsoh41ntk4q3pbj70tm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Johnston <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:36:21 -0600, Doc O'Leary
> <droleary.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >In article
> ><bob-6C4F94.22152108022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Warchild <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> My theory is that the events along Sarah/John's timeline as they move
> >> forward is subtly changing the future, and that the Skynet
interaction
> >> with Sarah/John is not a parallel forward time track, but actually a
> >> reverse time track as Skynet moves towards complete dissolution as
the
> >> human resistance grows stronger.
> >>
> >> Evil Arnie from 'The Terminator' is actually the last gasp attempt by
> >> Skynet to prevent the future. T2 and T3 evil terminators were
actually
> >> sent earlier on John's future timeline, when Skynet had more
resources.
> >>
> >> That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
> >
> >That's a pretty good story, and very true to the spirit of time travel
> >as a plot device.
>
> It doesn't work, though. By the time of T2, Skynet knew who John and
> Sarah Connor were and weren't just going through the phone book.
Nothing in Terminator precludes the evil terminator from knowing who
Sarah Connor was, just not where she was specifically. If Skynet was on
its last legs when it sent back Evil Arnie, it may have been cut off
from data, especially if the resistance was destroying any records about
Sarah Connor.
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