But a T-800, one of the many Skynet sent to several different timelines in its desperate last-gasp effort to prevent its own destruction, strolls into the seaside bar and absolutely blows John away. The film starts three years after Terminator 2, with Sarah and John relaxing on a beach in Mexico in 1998. This year’s Terminator: Dark Fate starts a brand-new branch that immediately follows the events of Terminator and Terminator 2. Luckily, that convoluted timeline was confined to a single film. They stop by Kyle’s childhood so that adult Kyle can deliver a message to his child self about Genisys and the year 2017, thus creating the visions he saw that led them to the correct point in time to thwart Skynet. With the help of Pops, Kyle and Sarah kill their future son and destroy Genisys, preventing Judgment Day yet again. With me so far? Ok good, because here’s where things get really weird. Meanwhile, Kyle begins to have visions of a soldier and Sarah coming to warn him about Skynet’s rise in the year 2017. Anyway, Sarah explains that this is the point when the new timeline was created, because she now knows everything about what’s going to happen to her in the future, as if Pops brought copies of Terminator and Terminator 2 with him for her to watch. Her protector bot, whom she calls “Pops,” destroyed the evil Terminator and essentially became her surrogate father. Reese arrives in 1984 to discover that Sarah has a reprogrammed T-800 of her own, that was sent back in time to protect her when she was a little girl, alongside a second Terminator that was sent to kill her. The second timeline starts in roughly the same place, with John Connor sending Kyle Reese back in time to become his dad, but then immediately splits into the Terminator Genisys timeline, which stands alone in its hooting wackiness. Skynet prevented, Judgment Day averted.Īnd that’s where the first timeline ends. Dyson is killed, and John and Sarah fling the chip and arm he was studying into the steel after the two Terminators. Ok, so, at the end of the movie, the T-1000 gets cast into a vat of molten steel, and the T-800 willingly dips himself into the steel like fondue to make sure none of his parts can be salvaged and used to create Skynet. Dyson sort of reverse-engineers the smashed Terminator and uses it to build what becomes Skynet. That’s kind of important, and another weird self-creation paradox: Skynet is invented because the original Terminator’s processing chip and severed arm get picked up and studied by a scientist named Miles Dyson. The T-800 intercepts John, and they bust Sarah out of a mental institution where she got locked up trying to blow up the factory where she destroyed the original Terminator at the end of the first film. Future John sends a reprogrammed T-800 to 1995 to protect his younger self. The T-1000 is trying to track down a 10-year-old John in Los Angeles and hyper-murder him with its bodacious sword hands. (Why it didn’t sent two T-1000s is beyond me. Skynet sends the T-800 to 1984, setting the events of the first movie in motion, and sends the super-advanced T-1000 to 1995 in the same instant. So technically it takes place at the same time as the first movie, kind of. Terminator 2: Judgment Day operates on the conceit that Skynet sent several Terminators back through time at once, to make sure John Connor gets as dead as possible before he leads humanity’s survivors to smash it into pieces (this conceit is vital to several of the sequels, actually). So, John engineers his own existence by sending his dad back in time to hook up with his mom. It’s a wild paradox, considering John Connor is the person who sends Reese back in time in the first place. Did I mention Reese is John's father? Because he totally is. Where are you? The Terminator: Your foster parents are dead.Reese is killed, Sarah destroys the T-800, and the movie ends with her making a series of recordings to her unborn son John. T-1000 impersonating Janelle: Wolfie's fine, honey, Wolfie's just fine. The Terminator: Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. T-1000 impersonating Janelle: John, it's late, where are you? The Terminator: What's the dog's name? John Connor: Max. T-1000 impersonating Janelle: John, where are you? The Terminator: I'm here Janelle, I'm fine. Todd Voight: We should tell John to get rid of that ****in' mutt. T-1000 impersonating Janelle: John I'm getting worried about you, where are you? Todd Voight: What the hell is that goddamn dog barking at? Todd Voight: Hey, shut-up you worthless piece of shit! John Connor: I can hear the dog barking. John Connor: Something's wrong, she's never this nice. T-1000 impersonating Janelle: John? John, it's getting late, I want to have dinner with you, I'm making beef stew. Got a quarter? T-1000 impersonating Janelle: Hello? John Connor: Hey, Janelle, it's me. View Quote John Connor: Todd and Janelle are dicks, but I've gotta warn them.
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