John Reese tries to play innocent and says accordingly

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That's what John Connor knows. Hence his good knowledge of Skynet, the future, and his enemy's taste for time machines and the 80s. So, he also knows what to do: send Kyle Reese back in time so he can slap the Terminator and zoomzoom his mom (John, not the Terminator, follow me, damn it).

“Quick! I need a volunteer to go back in time to save my mom!”

"And I said save, I didn't say sleep, I don't want to influence anyone!"
Stop! Let's take a break.

As you know, there's a simple rule: if you don't know how to do time buy phone number list travel, don't do it because it's a sure way to trip up your feet. However, there are two ways to handle said travel:

– Either we consider that there is only one timeline, and any sending into the past immediately modifies the future

– Either we believe that each sending into the past creates a new parallel reality with a different future

At this point, it's not that complicated. And yet, the film is already wallowing in a big way. Well, yes! Haven't you noticed?

– If the Terminator's time travel just happened… the future should be instantly altered. And so, Sarah Connor must have been killed thirty years ago. So John Connor never existed. Therefore, this scene should have stopped the second the Terminator traveled into the past. No, time isn't a chase like, "  Uh-huh, he went into the past a little early! Quick, let's go! " No, if the guy goes back thirty years, he's thirty years early. No, "Wait, wait, I'm coming into the past right after you from the same future!"  It's sad, but that's how it is.

– And if we assume that sending someone into the past just creates parallel realities… well, that’s of no interest except for time travelers who can benefit from it. No, because then Skynet can send robots or fruits and vegetables into the past, it won’t save its current future. It will just create others that it won’t benefit from. And the same goes for the Resistance: creating a parallel reality is of no interest to it (especially since if it starts from the fact that parallel realities exist, then there must already be one where Skynet never appeared). We might as well stay here and enjoy the victory while drinking Champomy.

Did you follow? Well, according to the movie, they chose option one: a single timeline, since that could kill John Connor. But they forgot that, hee hee, John Connor should have logically disappeared from that scene. A detail.