Re: Thoughts on how the Terminator TV series will end?

"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> pgalimatias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Pelerin Galimatias) wrote:
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>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-447663.16221407032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >In article <c1gAj.26$Qy3.6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > pgalimatias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Pelerin Galimatias) wrote:
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>> >> In article <fqplu2$eqa$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> I'm doing my very best to ignore T3; bad, bad movie. I didn't
like 
>> >> >> T2
>> >> >> all that much either, but I liked the evil Terminator a lot.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The first movie was terrific, scary and suspenseful with an 
>> >> >> appropriate
>> >> >> ending (till Ah'nold was elected governor).
>> >> >
>> >> >And the first movie guaranteed that Judgment Day would happen. 
Call 
>> >> >it
>> >> >'fate' or call it a closed time loop.  Either way, judgment day is 
>> >> >not
>> >> >avoidable.

I disagree. The whole point of every movie is that the past can be changed

else why send anyone back?

 First Movie: Reese explicitly says that at least his understanding of 
whether they can change the timeline or that there are different potential

timelines is ambiguous. The scene from when he is talking to the shrink is

the only time the implications of changing events is brought up.

 Second Movie: It is a bit of a retcon in that the reference Sarah being 
given a message about 'no fate but what you make' indicates a definitely 
changeable timeline.

 The Third Movie: Much as I'd like to remove it from my memory, seems to 
imply a 'river current' theory of timelines. You might throw a rock into a

river causing ripples but the current of a particular timeline/river flow 
dampens out the effects. Unsaid but logically it follows that even by the 
third movie's interpetation the timeline can be changed else - as I said
at 
the begining: Why else send anyone back? Man or Machine?

>> >> I thought that the 2nd movie closed out Judgment Day.
>> >
>> >No.  The original ending did, but the last minute slapped on using
>> >footage from earlier in the film with a dumb voice over ending that
went
>> >out with the theatrical release left it open.
>> >
>>
>> I don't recall the dumb voice over.  I remember the good terminator
>> lowering itself into the molten iron and John crying.  That should have
>> destroyed the last of the future technology.
>
> The original end is old Sarah Connor in the future, which isn't
> destroyed at all, playing with her grandchildren, while Senator John
> Connor stands by.  I really really really wish his bodyguard had been
> Arnie.  :)

Original in the sense of an alternate ending not used. The reason is 
obvious: sequels.