What are the rules for Terminators?
Are there any kinds of constant rules for Science Fiction?
There’s a new show based on The Terminator, and I tried to watch it when it premiered after last Sunday’s NFC playoff game, but I was at a bar and it was noisy and well…the show really looks awful.
But it got me thinking; in T-2 (an undeniably cool film), when they sent the T-1000 back to kill John Conner, why didn’t they just send it back to the same exact night of the original Terminator? Is there a limit to how far back in time they can go?
Also; in the first Terminator they said how they could only send things back in time that were living, like with skin. Nothing without skin could go back; that’s why everyone shows up in the present naked. They can’t even wear clothes. So did the Liquid Terminator have skin that he just peeled off? They never showed that.
That stuff always bugs me. Like in Back to the Future 2, Marty and Doc can’t let their past selves see them, or the universe explodes. But Old Biff and Young Biff have like an hour-long conversation about Grey’s Sports Almanac and nothing happens?
Hm…I just realized that all of this stuff comes up in the sequels. There’s your problem right there.
