Re: 1st Season Terminator: TSCC - Heavy Metal - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

George W Harris wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:58:32 GMT, Beowulf Bolt <abd.al-hazred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> :George W Harris wrote:
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> :> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:00:48 GMT, Beowulf Bolt
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> :> :* A paradoxical situation in which a time traveler interferes with
> :> :* the time line involved in his own existence.
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> :> :  Fits to a 'T', afaics.
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> :> Nope.  He's not interfering with it, he's reinforcing it.
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> :  How is it not "interference" to be responsible for the chain of 
> : events that results in his own birth?!?
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>         In the same way that loaning someone your car
> (assuming the car works etc.) isn't interefering with them
> going to the grocery store.

  That presumes that the individual has the ability to get to the store
without the loan of the car.

  The *very premise* of the Terminator series is that John Connor is *so
crucial* to the overthrow of Skynet that the AI's only chance of
survival requires it to send units back in time to wipe him out.  It is
perfectly reasonable to assume, then, that Kyle Reece would have had *no
capacity* to go back in time save for John.

  This is *nothing* like your analogy.

  Biff


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