Plot hole?
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FLOYD⠀ — 6 years ago(November 14, 2019 06:30 AM)
He wasn't dead in that timeline.
If there was no chance of killing John in the past because he's alive in the present, it would've been pointless to send the terminators back.
It operated under the rules that the future can be changed by altering the past. -
FLOYD⠀ — 6 years ago(November 14, 2019 06:43 AM)
To rule the future in the new timeline. John Conner helped destroy Skynet in the original timeline. Without him there, Skynet they could control everything. They sent a terminator back to kill him, so in the new timeline, they could win the war and control the world. It wouldn't help their current timeline, but it'd help their new up and coming one.
There would have to be multiple futures or rather multiple timelines. If Skynet and the resistance send terminators, they'd still exist after they send them. They wouldn't eradicate into nothingness.
If time machines existed, and one person goes back in time, do we all disappear because
one person
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Phaenon — 6 years ago(November 14, 2019 06:48 AM)
They wouldn't eradicate into nothingness.
Yes, but cyber-enhanced woman didn't know what Skynet was. So how could Carl, from Skynet, send texts to Sarah about Legion terminators sent back for her to hunt?
How would a terminator from a different timeline know about other terminators being sent back?
Ding Dong
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Sorugue — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:47 PM)
'Carl' Mentioned that there is a change in the atmosphere when temporal displacement (time warp opening) occurs that it is presumed, a machine, but not a human can sense. This was directly asked and answered in the film
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Karl Aksel — 5 years ago(April 17, 2020 02:32 PM)
To rule the future in the new timeline.
That's not ruling the future.
They sent a terminator back to kill him, so in the new timeline, they could win the war and control the world. It wouldn't help their current timeline, but it'd help their new up and coming one.
That'd make as much sense as Germany, during WWII, making a last ditch effort to make Paraguay win. No matter who or what you are, timelines that you're not part of are irrelevant.
Besides, if Skynet was eradicated in Dark Fate's timeline, where'd Terminator Carl come from? Skynet couldn't have sent him, they're gone.
Of course, every single sequel to Terminator is a giant plot hole in and of itself. Skynet would have known the instant they sent the first T-800 back in time that their mission had failed. So the logical thing to do would have been to send another one to help the first one, at the same time.
But of course, the T-800 wouldn't have failed. The only reason it did fail was because Kyle Reese was sent back in time to help Sarah. But there would have been no reason why he'd be sent back in time unless they already knew that Skynet had sent a terminator back to kill Sarah. And if Skynet had done that, they would already have succeeded before Kyle could go back in time - the change in the present would have been instantaneous.