In article <13t1hffmf3tefb5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
A Watcher <stocksami@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Some stories lend themselves to any number of additional episodes or
> movies while others seem to naturally demand a conclusion. I put BSG
> and Lost in the latter category and most adventure movies and TV shows
> in the former. Which would be most appropriate for the Terminator
> franchise?
There is no appropriate end; the timeline is too messed up. The
difficulty is that they followed a very specific story target of
preventing SkyNet/Judgement Day. If that happens, Arnie never gets sent
back in time, leading to a paradox that is best handled by a wacky
sitcom spin-off. If that doesn't happen, time travel keeps happening
with little/no effect on the future. That ends, and the timeline
stabilizes, only when the resistance (via the death of John Connor or
otherwise) is crushed by the machines, or there are no resources left
for either side to time travel. So what's "appropriate" is a
non-Hollywood ending of the machines winning, with a possible
counterpoint being that the machines have nothing to do without their
human nemesis. So it's a good bet that it will keep going on and on
until it is no longer profitable.
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