Thread: Stuff you know WAY too much about

Originally Posted by Infernus

Can you explain how Terminator makes sense? For instance if John Connor sent Kyle Reese back in time, how is Kyle Reese his dad?

In the original timeline (The first time skynet attacked and such, before any time displacement was made) John Connor arose through coincidence. He wasn't predestined, he just happened to rally man. When they won the war (smashed skynets mainframe) and found that they had sent a T-800 back in time, he sent someone from his personal guard who happened to be Kyle Reese. I'd imagine the timeline we know as the first Terminator movie was a few timelines in, after the paradox had been firmly established.

Also if they built skynet out of the Terminator's arm from T2, then how was the Terminator even built?

Again, the terminator being sent back in time actually would've sped up skynets approach in the event it couldn't have killed sarah connor, which is why in the current tv show storyline and the book series (which was infinitely better than the third movie and tv show) they send terminators back to establish skynet and only kill the connors if they get the opportunity.

Don't get me wrong I love Terminator but it just seems to have plothole unless it was otherwise explained in something I hadn't watched, or I didn't watch well enough.

Well in the movies it just sort of introduces the notion that the universe of the Terminators is built inherently on a paradox, and never does a very good example of explaining the alternate timeline theory until the tv show where Derek Reese doesn't remember events from the future that his girlfriend who came back later does.