I really should be more logical when planning on going to the drive-in. I went swimming today. Then I showered, got dress and went to the drive in. Movies over, come home, change into pajamas and go to sleep. Should have just skipped the getting dressed in normal clothes part. Oh well.
Anyway, saw Bad Boys 2 and Terminator 3. Bad Boys was basically a lot of shoot outs and car chases but damn! They had this one awesome car chase scene. T3 was pretty good. On the surface it's an unjustified sequel (with the destroying of the chips and all). But with the knowledge of Judgment Day is inevitable, T1 can still hold true. The whole time travel concept messes with a person's head. HOWEVER, if in T2 they destroyed all of Dyson (sp?)'s work/files/research and the CPU's of which his research was based off of, how the hell does SkyNet still get built? Matt reminded me that a robotic hand was left behind in T2. I got this reconfirmed for me when T2 aired on TV. But like I said, the research for SkyNet, according to Dyson, was based off of the chip, NOT the hand. But now that I'm thinking about it, I guess it does make sense that they were still able to build SkyNet eventually. This way, the first Terminator in the first movie can still exist in the 80's. Actually, the hell with still. It justifies it existing period.
I'm going to talk this out just to make sure it makes sense to me. If you see any flaws, please, let's discuss. Besides, I was drinking caffeine during the movies, I'm not tired at the moment.
In order for all this to work, this "history" must be taken from the view point of John Connor. You know, I started to write how it all makes sense, the time traveling, (I'm writing this after writing the first issue) except that it doesn't. Sarah Connor only prepares herself and her son for Judgment Day and after BECAUSE of the time traveling robots. Had future SkyNet not attempted to wipe out John Connor, the human resistance leader, he never would have been the human resistance leader. But John Connor never would have been the human resistance leader had SkyNet not attempted to wipe him out before hand. Hell, he wouldn't have even been born. See how it fucks with your head? Yeah, I know. I shouldn't be reading that much into a movie. But I'm a person who wants things to make sense. But the more I try to make sense of it, or as I get one thing to make sense, some many other things don't. It's fucking with me and I don't like it.
Issue 1: A machine, the Terminator, is sent to kill the human resistance leader John Connor before he is even born. How: From the second movie we learn that the basis on which the machine that controls the machine rebellion,SkyNet, is the CPU from the Terminator. This CPU is destroyed in the second movie. However, in the third movie, we learn that that act only delayed SkyNet taking over. SkyNet still manages to get built (some how) and gets activated. We also see the first terminator machines leading us to believe that SkyNet improves upon them. Therefore, possible for that Terminator to exist in a future before he gets sent to present time.
Issue 2: A human protector, Kyle, is sent by future John Connor to protect Sarah Connor and in the process, fathers John Connor
How: I'm still working on this one, okay?
Issue 3: Sarah Connor now has knowledge of what is to come and prepares appropriately.
How: Well she finds out from Kyle and sees for herself. Who wouldn't want to try to prevent that?
Issue 4: A second (evil) Terminator is sent to "present day" to kill a young John Connor.
How: Well SkyNet was not stopped in the first movie. Just it's attempt to kill John Connor. Therefore, it still has terminators to send. We learn from the third movie that evil terminator was sent back to that day because John Connor made out with Kate I-forgot-her-last-name and had the terminator not shown up, they would have gotten together and Kate would have gotten her father to stop SkyNet from ever going online.
Issue 4.1: How did SkyNet know to go back to that time to stop them from getting together? Had they gotten together, SkyNet never would have gone online in the first place
How: Well shit if I know. I'll just attribute it to a flaw in logic in the third movie. (See what I mean about more questions arising?)
Issue 5: A good Terminator is sent to "present day" to protect a young John Connor.
How: Well SkyNet was not stopped in the first movie. Just it's attempt to kill John Connor. Therefore, there were terminators available to reprogram and to send.
Issue 5.1: Sarah Connor attempts to kill Dyson to stop SkyNet from being created. Sarah knows this information from the good terminator. In the end, the research is destroyed and so are the CPUs.
How: From the third movie, we learn that there was another way for SkyNet to be built and therefore the terminators will exist.
Issue 6: Okay, now I'm starting to get tired. Not physically tired, just mentally trying to figure out the time travel paradoxes. I fucking hate paradoxes. They drive me crazy. Technically, if you back in time to the "past," you can't change what happens, because that could effect your going back in time altogether. That was nicely illustrated in the 2002 version of The Time Machine. That only pseudo holds for the Terminator series. The biggest head fucker is John Connor's father. You can't be sent back in time by the person you create in your journey to the past. It just drives me crazy. Most of this other stuff mostly makes sense, in my head. I could probably talk it out, but not write it out.
So now that I've entertained you with my ideas for three pages, care to discuss? Think it over. In the meantime I think I'll entertain the idea of sleep. I really need to stop fucking with my sleep schdule.