![]() But, Cameron’s plot suggests, the “perils to come that would result from our hubris and blind faith in technology” may be inescapable, a time loop, a feedback loop, leading directly if not necessarily inevitably to destruction. damaged skin on the Terminator is rotting from gangrene while looking through Sarah’s address book Hey, buddy. Then (in all probability), no one would find a piece of the advanced technology, and Skynet could not be built. A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress. The simplest way to save the world is to let the Terminator kill Sarah Connor. Kyle Reese comes across time for Sarah Connor because of a picture and because John Connor asks him to, but neither the picture nor John Connor would exist if Reese had not already gone back in time. The Terminator’s surviving arm makes Skynet possible, but it is never invented, only found and back-engineered. Pawn Shop Clerk: hands the Terminator the pump action shotgun. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. View Quote Voiceover Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. ![]() We were in uncharted territory now, making up history as we went along. Pawn Shop Clerk: Thats Italian.You can go pump or auto. View Quote Voiceover The future, always so clear to me, had become like a black highway at night. ![]() Both Connor and Skynet exist in a time loop without outside causality. The Terminator: picking up guns at a gun shop, while looking at the guns on the gun rack behind the clerk The 12-gauge auto-loader. Far worse, by saving his mother’s life and ensuring the destruction of the Terminator, John Connor has created Skynet just as surely as Skynet has created John Connor by trying to kill him. “The ultimate irony in this vast struggle (available to audience members who want to think about it but easily ignored by those who accept the semi-happy ending ) is the irony in many time loop (or ontological paradox) stories: John Connor has created himself (though he has not gone as far as the character in Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” who is both his own father and mother).
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