But the time travel element has had some fans scratching their heads for years…
It’s no secret that theTerminatorfranchise can sometimes be a bit confusing.
Cyborgs from the future who come back to kill the future leader of the human Resistance will do that.
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Well, sort of, but it also depends on which installment you’re watching.
Of course, the film also begs the question: was Kyle Reese paradoxically always John’s father?
Frankly, we don’t really know.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Daycontinues these threads by introducing a new T-800 and the T-1000 (Robert Patrick).
Rather than dealing in one timeline,The Sarah Connor Chroniclestackles several.
The date could change, but the Future War will still occur.
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Fate exists after all.
Where the franchise takes another interesting turn is with the first official reboot,Terminator Genisys.
Now, the events of the otherTerminatorfilms still happen, but just in alternate timelines.
Again, this means that time itself is fluid, able to always be adjusted or changed.
Unfortunately, the plannedGenisystrilogy was canceled, so there’s never any real resolution.
This is different from replacing the timeline, which effectively erases the Future War entirely.
Talk about a mind-bender.
Hopefully,the filmmaker’s nextTerminatoradventurewill shed more light on this.
Terminator Zerois available to stream on Netflix in the U.S.
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