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Terminator sequence definition7/26/2023 The second timeline starts in roughly the same place, with John Connor sending Kyle Reese back in time to become his dad, but then immediately splits into the Terminator Genisys timeline, which stands alone in its hooting wackiness. Skynet prevented, Judgment Day averted.Īnd that’s where the first timeline ends. Dyson is killed, and John and Sarah fling the chip and arm he was studying into the steel after the two Terminators. Ok, so, at the end of the movie, the T-1000 gets cast into a vat of molten steel, and the T-800 willingly dips himself into the steel like fondue to make sure none of his parts can be salvaged and used to create Skynet. Dyson sort of reverse-engineers the smashed Terminator and uses it to build what becomes Skynet. That’s kind of important, and another weird self-creation paradox: Skynet is invented because the original Terminator’s processing chip and severed arm get picked up and studied by a scientist named Miles Dyson. The T-800 intercepts John, and they bust Sarah out of a mental institution where she got locked up trying to blow up the factory where she destroyed the original Terminator at the end of the first film. Future John sends a reprogrammed T-800 to 1995 to protect his younger self. The T-1000 is trying to track down a 10-year-old John in Los Angeles and hyper-murder him with its bodacious sword hands. (Why it didn’t sent two T-1000s is beyond me. Skynet sends the T-800 to 1984, setting the events of the first movie in motion, and sends the super-advanced T-1000 to 1995 in the same instant. So technically it takes place at the same time as the first movie, kind of. Terminator 2: Judgment Day operates on the conceit that Skynet sent several Terminators back through time at once, to make sure John Connor gets as dead as possible before he leads humanity’s survivors to smash it into pieces (this conceit is vital to several of the sequels, actually). So, John engineers his own existence by sending his dad back in time to hook up with his mom. ![]() It’s a wild paradox, considering John Connor is the person who sends Reese back in time in the first place. Did I mention Reese is John's father? Because he totally is. Reese is killed, Sarah destroys the T-800, and the movie ends with her making a series of recordings to her unborn son John.
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