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Seriously! Once the travel starts the plot falls apart. Couldn’t Arnold have picked something a little easier, like Sarah’s grandma? Or great grandma? Or great, great, great grandma? Or Eve? I suppose the robots wanted to be invented, but once they have the ability to go back, everybody gets to go back. That drove me crazy with Pirates of the Caribbean–once they start bringing dead characters back to life….
Rants are always welcome, after all I go on enough of them myself! I saw Terminator last night after all, and… man… talk about plot falling apart. It was kindof a big mess, and while we could analyze all day why it was just a very poor script, at least it had pretty awesome special effects, designs (giant humanoid robots who legs turn into motorcycles–AMAZING) and cool action sequences usually involving A-10’s. If that’s all you go for, and expect nothing else, it might be worth a few hours.
what always puzzled me was the logic of having to come back naked.
I mean really, how does the time machine distinguish between clothing and skin? seems a little odd to me.
Of course without it we’d never have the immortal scene where arnie takes the dudes clothes…
Hell, the whole time thing is messed up unless you consider it the following way:
Each time they go back, it creates a parrallel time line that is whole and distinct on its own from that point forwards.
Hence, the movie can only show one possible time line out of those that could have or did happen.
Therefore, as long as they only show the one timeline where, however improbably, the machines send back naked, slightly retarded, terminators to kill what turns out to be the hardest of the available targets, we never see the five billion other timelines where the machines come back and john dies. or his grandma dies. or any of the other billion options where humanity loses.
This also explains why it seems like such an unlikely outcome. It is. It just so happens that its the only one we get to see.
This is also a possible answer to life from an atheist perspective, but thats another story.
So we’re only seeing the most outlandish of all the possible universes? I like that approach, mostly because it sounds like mixing Terminator and Star Trek, which are two of my favorite franchises. This so far is the best logical explanation of the Terminator-verse! Kudos!
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:04 am
I knew Bob had too much going on in his head…
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:32 am
…And I’m worried that we’ve barely tapped the surface…
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Wow! Art looks great today!
(Also, come on, who HASN’T thought it through
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Thanks! I’m glad you liked the art! Yeah, I think we can all look past the logic flaws and still enjoy some good-’ol robot fighting!
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 am
Seriously! Once the travel starts the plot falls apart. Couldn’t Arnold have picked something a little easier, like Sarah’s grandma? Or great grandma? Or great, great, great grandma? Or Eve? I suppose the robots wanted to be invented, but once they have the ability to go back, everybody gets to go back. That drove me crazy with Pirates of the Caribbean–once they start bringing dead characters back to life….
Sorry for the rant!
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Rants are always welcome, after all I go on enough of them myself! I saw Terminator last night after all, and… man… talk about plot falling apart. It was kindof a big mess, and while we could analyze all day why it was just a very poor script, at least it had pretty awesome special effects, designs (giant humanoid robots who legs turn into motorcycles–AMAZING) and cool action sequences usually involving A-10’s. If that’s all you go for, and expect nothing else, it might be worth a few hours.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:59 am
what always puzzled me was the logic of having to come back naked.
I mean really, how does the time machine distinguish between clothing and skin? seems a little odd to me.
Of course without it we’d never have the immortal scene where arnie takes the dudes clothes…
Hell, the whole time thing is messed up unless you consider it the following way:
Each time they go back, it creates a parrallel time line that is whole and distinct on its own from that point forwards.
Hence, the movie can only show one possible time line out of those that could have or did happen.
Therefore, as long as they only show the one timeline where, however improbably, the machines send back naked, slightly retarded, terminators to kill what turns out to be the hardest of the available targets, we never see the five billion other timelines where the machines come back and john dies. or his grandma dies. or any of the other billion options where humanity loses.
This also explains why it seems like such an unlikely outcome. It is. It just so happens that its the only one we get to see.
This is also a possible answer to life from an atheist perspective, but thats another story.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:01 am
So we’re only seeing the most outlandish of all the possible universes? I like that approach, mostly because it sounds like mixing Terminator and Star Trek, which are two of my favorite franchises. This so far is the best logical explanation of the Terminator-verse! Kudos!