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10 Timelines From The Terminator Universe

By Miss Cellania in Movies & SciFi on Mar 31, 2009 at 11:34 am


These ten different timelines, which are all affected whenever someone uses a time machine, can be confusing (as all time travel stories are), but reading them may help you prepare for the new movie Terminator: Salvation.

I’ve mulled it over some more, and I still believe there has to be a timeline where someone other than Kyle Reese is John Connor’s father. When The Terminator was a standalone movie, you could read it either way. Either there’s a circular causality, where Kyle is “always” John Connor’s father, or Kyle’s time travel creates a new branch. But Terminator 2 pretty much establishes that time travel always creates new branches, because there’s no fate but what we make. And the Connors, with their friendly T-800, are able to stop or at least delay Skynet. But of course, your mileage, even backwards and forwards through time, may vary.

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  1. Robolasse
    Apr 1st, 2009 at 2:48 am

    I think that the recistances and the machines messing around with the timeline over and over again ultimately will lead to the destruction of both parites in the end.

  2. Kalel
    Apr 1st, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    You missed the alternate timeline in which Biff got rich.

  3. edc2
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 am

    oh, kalel... you so cray zeh!

    [io9sucks by the way]

  4. xadrian
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    And then Hugo says to Miles, that if it's all happened already, how come Ben doesn't recognize Sayid in the future?

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