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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-01-05 03:46 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-01-05 03:46 pm
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season One
Spoilers
Am I right in thinking that in the original Terminator, Connor was said to have defeated Skynet by the time the Terminator was sent back in time? So if the war is still ongoing after Reese is sent back (as Dungeons and Dragons indicates), delaying Judgment Day just made worse for the humans. I guess giving the malevolent AI an extra decade-plus of hardware and software development before creating it will do that.
You know, trying to kill off Skynet before it is created has failed at least twice so far. Maybe it would be better to try to create a Skynet that isn't inclined to exterminate humans.
In the original timeline, Kyle Reese would have been born well after Judgment Day.
Am I right in thinking that in the original Terminator, Connor was said to have defeated Skynet by the time the Terminator was sent back in time? So if the war is still ongoing after Reese is sent back (as Dungeons and Dragons indicates), delaying Judgment Day just made worse for the humans. I guess giving the malevolent AI an extra decade-plus of hardware and software development before creating it will do that.
You know, trying to kill off Skynet before it is created has failed at least twice so far. Maybe it would be better to try to create a Skynet that isn't inclined to exterminate humans.
In the original timeline, Kyle Reese would have been born well after Judgment Day.
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Poul Anderson fudged it gracefully with his Danellians in the Time Patrol stories. IIRC there's ambiguity about whether their far-future era is an end, or a horizon of our comprehension.
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