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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I remember a while back, there was a website in which a guy looked at time travel movies (& TV?) and assessed the way they depicted time travel. I wonder if it's still extant, and what he thinks of T:TSCC. Because I do like the show, but the way they seem to dodge between retconning and parallel-universalising is annoying me a bit. OK, they've said (or at least implied) this is a different timeline in which the events of T3 now cannot happen. But the clumsy retconning of dates (mainly as they apply to events of T2) is silly. There's no reason why they couldn't have T2 happening in 1994 and that afterwards SC & JC have mananged to hide undetected for 5 years, shacking up with paradmedic guy along the way. That would also allow suficient time for FBI interest to die down to the point when only one agent would maintain interest when he sees a missing-persons report and suspects it's Sarah Connor. And also for SC to think that just bolting to another state but not bothering to change her fake ID (and all because someone proposed marriage to her!) would be enough. Because we're supposed to suspend disbelief of some issues (the non-resemblance of series Sarah, Kyle, and Silberman to their film equivalents, for example) while other glaring issues remain (like Kyle being alive before the war starts). It would be more interesting if they could admit that the timeline is being changed - that, really, the Kyle who came back is no longer the Kyle who is the brother of Derek who was sent back. Unless that's the point - silly as it seems to speculate on how a series might be intended to end when we're only one abortive half-season in - that they're getting towards: that (as said in T3) Judgement Day is inevitable, that they will never stop it no matter what. Perhaps they'll go for an ending like in that film [i]The Butterfly Effect[/i] - that no matter what they can do, it'll always go wrong; so the only way for Ashton Kutcher in that film was to do something completely different, perhaps they'll realise in the end that the only way to avert the Rise of Skynet (and the subsequent war) is for JC to die - or maybe even never have been born. That would be an amazing way to end a show: for SC to have to decide between her son and the survival of a non-nuked humanity. I think she'd pick her son (and let him go on to become the saviour of a post-nuke humanity) while he'd prefer to sacrifice himself. Incidentally, it completely slipped my mind for a minute why Cromartie actually got onto their trail in the Pilot, before I remembered that it was because Ellison added SC's alias of Sarah Reese to her file and it was detected by a Terminator sleeper agent! They shoud,get Owain Yeoman back to play another Cromartie model, Garrett Dillahunt really annoys me for some reason. He's a completely different body-shape for one thing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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