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Will there be time travel preventing this movie from being made?


If judgement day is the end of the world then this movie must be the end of the world equivalent of this franchise lol

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Not much of it makes sense, if you think about it.

If Jonh never existed, then how the fuck did he send terminators to save him and his mother? Then again, you could argue that the premise of the first 2 films were equally messed up - if the AI was successful in killing john or his mom, how did Jonh send a terminator to save himself if he never existed? And if we go by the hypothesis that every action creates a different parallel universe then AI was not going to see the effects of its actions, successful or not - so what's the point?

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As I haven't seen DF, then I can't really speculate on everything that happens in this movie, but IMO, T1 was the complete story, Kyle was always John's father and nothing ever changed. The only sequel needed was what happened after Judgement Day.
T2 altered the story with extra Terminators being sent back - how that happened is never fully explained. After Kyle was sent back is it possible Skynet was really not defeated and they were able to send more terminators? Was the Terminator in the original movie not the first one sent back? I read this theory on another thread and found it interesting, but it has holes.
I don't see your point about the parallel universe theory. It's the one I buy into. When Sarah and John destroy Cyberdyne the future changed - new timeline. While I wasn't crazy about T3, I think that is the logical outcome of the story IMO. Skynet still takes over, Judgement Day is only delayed, and John still sends Kyle back to 1984. I don't see how another timeline alters the future war.
DF apparently shakes everything up with a new story line that I probably won't buy into, (but I'm still going to go next week.) I'll reserve judgement and comments until after I see it.

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