Blaze said:
Watch the films and work it out, it's simple if you have half a brain.
Okay, simple one for you.
In T2, the chip that creates Skynet is destroyed - so Skynet is not created. So how did Skynet send a Terminator back in either T1 or T2?
Paradox.
Some people say "that's an easy one Furie. You're looking at linear time expansion and propositioning. You need to look at a multiversal view of time. Each time you time travel backwards, you create a brand new time line which runs concurrently with the time line where the time travel incident occurred.*
Okay - I can live with that. So you now have (at T1) two futures. The one where Skynet is being crippled by John Conner and has to send a Terminator back to finish him off.
Unfortunately, in T1, the soldier sent back in time is John Conner's dad. So, if it's a different time line, who was John Conner's dad in the initial time line? Sarah Conner is a right trollop!
Anyway, the T1 arm is what creates Skynet, but Skynet is in a different time line to the T1 time line and could never have been created in a self-fulfilling paradox.
T1 actually works. It's a self contained paradox which works out logically. T2 pounces up and down on that and the plot makes no sense. T2 is an excellent action film, but the plot is complete garbage. It's full of holes and paradox and just doesn't work.
T3 wasn't even a good action film and the plot continued the completely dross T2 plot and pummels all sense in submission. T3 is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Plot is complete crap and the film is hugely clichéd, on rails, by the book, dull dull dull!
This doesn't make me want to see TS, especially when the only people who think it's good are those who think that anything after T1 has a good, solid plot/story - this is not a good outlook.
Anyhows! Watched Iron Man again the other day. It's a one shot film. Simple, bland action hero film. Great effects, some good acting actually - but overall very shallow and not something I'd really want to ever put myself through again. 5/10 (I think I rated it a 7 or 8 before).
*Yes, I'm making stuff up! :lol: