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Happy Judgment Day aka Rise of the Robots Day!

Beastyle

By Beastyle,
Posted on: 2011-04-21 24:50 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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I am of the opinion that Time Tourism caused the Terminator loop. Idiotic time tourist drops iPad or their equivalent and scientist or businessman discovers iPad and develops it to be leading computer company of world. Company gets military contract to build Skynet and end of the world occurs where some time traveller hooks up with Sarah Connor. First two realities have John Connor don't exist. Also possible that John Connor's father is same idiot that dropped iPad in past so John Connor doesn't exist in only the first reality.

The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.

 

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Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn View Post
From the Terminator Wiki:
In Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron told Sarah Connor that Skynet went online April 19th, 2011 and on April 21st, 2011 Judgment Day happened.
The first movie, despite what Kyle Reese says about the future not being set, is in fact an ontological loop where everything that happens only ensures the future Kyle Reese already knew. In other words, John Connor is the source of his own origin and the terminator is the source of its own origin. The first movie is like 12 Monkeys or Heinlein's "--All You Zombies--"

It's only with the second movie, and all the rest that followed, did Cameron and Hurd explicitly show us that history can be changed and new futures can be generated. That's where things began to get baroque.

But, oh yeah, I'm rootin' for the robots!

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

 

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I STILL say that Skynet became self-aware on August 29th, 1997.

*folds arms*

 

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i warned people while i was working the other day, but no one knew what Skynets was....

3rd FPARN of the day!? WTH man lol



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Originally Posted by Beastyle View Post
I STILL say that Skynet became self-aware on August 29th, 1997.

*folds arms*
lol old.

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Originally Posted by synthozoic View Post
The first movie, despite what Kyle Reese says about the future not being set, is in fact an ontological loop where everything that happens only ensures the future Kyle Reese already knew. In other words, John Connor is the source of his own origin and the terminator is the source of its own origin. The first movie is like 12 Monkeys or Heinlein's "--All You Zombies--"

It's only with the second movie, and all the rest that followed, did Cameron and Hurd explicitly show us that history can be changed and new futures can be generated. That's where things began to get baroque.

But, oh yeah, I'm rootin' for the robots!
The first movie has a cutscene where Sarah was arguing with Kyle that they should find and blow up Cyberdyne at the time so that the war and Terminators never happen. Kyle disagreed stating that his mission was to protect her. Had Kyle deviated from his mission and blew up Cyberdyne who knows if it would have worked or not.

 

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Wasn't there a time line of future past events floating around somewhere? Oh, well i was still mad when the moon didn't get blown out of Earth's orbit in 1999.