So in one Timeline Skynet neve rhappened. IN another Genesys never happened, and now in the third John connor was killed, skynet never happened but another skynet like thing took over. So where the hell is this T-800 coming from?
That's actually kind of a beautiful thing about Terminator at this point. There are now multiple timelines. Some of them are pretty whack and others just raise more questions. And I get that the quality of some of the movies is quite questionable. I can't stand to even remember Terminator 4 for instance, and yet I legitimately lol'd at Genesys, as
that one at least takes the time to poke some fun at itself. I can't say I will ever watch that one again, but creepy Arnold smile is forever etched into my brain in a good way! As for this latest film, let's set aside for a moment some of the potentially deeper
woke ideology at play. On its own merits, the film is pretty decent. We got terminator battles plus. We got some mind-bending time travel plots plus. We got... a t-800 who completed his mission and then went into retirement, had a family, and... I don't even know where else to go with the line of thinking here.
Did it basically help to take down skynet? Ie. killing John Connor plus stopping all subsequent time traveling terminators led to a future without Skynet??... Talk about unintended consequences. Even if you don't delve deeply into the lore, here, the film is decent enough.
Where do they go now that they've established that if John Connor never rose up to lead a human resistance, it would have just been
someone else? And if not Skynet, clearly
something else. On the surface, it kind of feels like a major retcon disaster when the whole premise originally was the significance of
one for the future of
many. I could easily dismiss this except T2 had already set some of the foundation for this when we learned that Skynet could not be prevented and was only being delayed...
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