originally posted sept 2008

I have read some interesting questions about timelines from fans of the show. Thus, I would like to present some possible answers for why things are evolving the way they are in TSCC.

I'm not trying to explain the weekly story. Rather, the direction the storyline is taking, as a matter of the war between Skynet and the future John Connor. This is a mental consolidation of thoughts from many bloggers much smarter than I, from too many sources for me to completely remember or quote.

First, there are several people asking how apparent contradictions between the movies and different points in the series are affecting the future. The answer appears to be pretty complex, in that different timeline seem to be coming into existence as the franchise pushes forward, whether this might mean alternate dimensions or simply alternate shapings of the timeline of the same dimension are valid questions.

The original movie set a single timeline in which John Connor's assassination / creation is molded by moving through time. Without the terminator moving back to kill Sarah Connor, there would never have been a reason to send Kyle Reese back, and thus, never a reason for that version of John Connor to be created.

There was an excellent discussion thread on this I read on the Kryptonsite forums that several bloggers contributed to a few possibilities. Many were the chicken or the egg discussions that musing how John or Skynet could have existed at all.

I would choose to agree with what Arnold's Terminator brought up in T3, that "Judgment Day was inevitable". Thus, what you saw in the first movie was an already altered timeline where Skynet could develop sooner and Kyle Reese had developed into John Connor's father. Both would have existed prior to any timeline alteration, but the changes in time made both happen differently and slightly sooner.

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