Well, Sarah was no longer that wimpy (not quite!) funny looking chick from the 80s, that's for sure. You can see why John talked about her to his young dad. (It definitely is hard to wrap one's head around that.) For a 10-12 year old, John was no slouch, either.
This time, though, I was focused on what, to me, are inconsistencies. It just seems to me that as soon as they wiped out the prototype for SkyNet, the two terminators
and John should have disappeared. I don't know where that would have left Sarah, but very likely not blowing up shit, someplace.
Son says, there are two more movies, so obviously it didn't stop the WAR. And that makes total sense. As John said, while watching the two children "shooting" at each other, "We aren't going to make it, are we?" We don't seem to need intelligent or sentient computers to blow us up. We can manage that all by ourselves, thank you very much.
And I think that maybe that explains what seemed to be inconsistencies. It is possible that the guy John sent back wasn't originally his father. You have to trust that certain things are meant to be, no matter what, for this to work. John didn't have to be the exact make up of Kyle and Sarah. It was Sarah alone who formed who he became. She seemed to have hard luck with guys and maybe life led her to the kind of men she hung out with between movies.
Also there would be no SkyNet before the Terminator came back to be crushed in the factory. At least is wasn't the same thing it was for the liquid guy and the good Terminator. And I remember Kyle saying that they blew up the time travel machine after only two went through it.
So, they didn't avert the coming disaster, but they did change the future. John's father went from unknown to known, SkyNet became more elaborate, they didn't blow up the time travel machine right away and the machine technology in 2029 was a lot more advanced.
I don't have a clue about the next movie, but I'm hoping it reflects this or explains it another way. I'm pretty sure humanity didn't get 90% exterminated in 1997. I'm very curious to see what horrors the next movie brings from the future.
This movie was made after the end of the "Cold War," but it makes a pretty good case that nothing has really changed. I'm pretty sure we all have that fear of self destruction somewhere in our heads. I don't think Sarah had it completely right when she said that men couldn't understand creativity the way a woman can (woman creates life, men create destruction). I mean, she has a solid point there, but if that is the whole of it, then humanity dies out in destruction or for a lack of men (getting rid of the problem). That won't work.
Hmmm... Maybe Arnold had it right when he did the movie in which he had the baby. :^D
Well, we'll see what's next.
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I really felt sorry for Dyson. He didn't know what he was doing. Also, I was expecting him to be the vacuum cleaner inventor, lol.
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