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

George W Harris wrote:

> 	That was, as I understand it, the entire purpose of 
> time travel in "Twelve Monkeys" was information gathering.  
> You can't change the past, but you don't know everything 
> about the past either.  

> If they had discovered a locked 
> chest buried in a particular spot, the could send someone 
> back in time to put something in a locked chest and bury it in 
> that spot, and that something would be in the chest when 
> they opened it, but it was always there.

More or less the basic concept of "The Company" stories by Kage Baker.
Have your time travelers squirrel away information and treasures to be
"discovered" in contem****ary times.

Of course, those had angst-ridden immortal cyborgs too.




Brian

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