Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season One

[james_davis_nicoll]

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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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[heron61.livejournal.com]

It's fairly clear that most or all of the changes made in the movies and the show have made things worse. Of course, I can easily see the stray terminator parts from the end of the first film really giving Skynet a boost. From what we've seen in the early part of season 2, I'm fairly sure killing Andy Goode & letting the Turk into others hands was a terrible idea.

However, it's also very difficult to tell how successful Connor & the resistance were in the first film, since Skynet was still able to send a robot back into the past. My impression at the time was that Connor & Co. were winning, but not that they'd won.

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.

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 various discussions the characters had about the inevitability of AI (in season 1), and from the future scene in Dungeons & Dragons with Andy Goode, it's fairly clear that this is going to be the ultimate answer, and that is why I like this show considerably more than the movies - that and the fact that the movies were about a future was against Skynet, with occasional time travel, and a high level of predestination, and the show is about a full-on time-war, where the future is very obviously fluid - I love that aspect of the show.

I also think you could do a rocking cool tabletop RPG of post SCC, where J-Day was averted and humans and machines have an uneasy peace, but there is still the risk of robots and humans previously sent back to before the change-points that averted J-Day (and disaffected humans and machines in the "present" going back from the current timeline) messing things up and changing history into a less positive version. In short Terminator: The Time Patrol (naturally, with mixed human & cyborg time patrol teams (likely legally mandated) with all the tensions that this would produce.