07-29-2004, 10:35 PM
SkyNet may have executed the temporal assassination mission on a two-front contigency basis.
Directive 1: Send standard T-800 to terminate Sarah Connor. Destination: 1984
*Completed*
Directive 2: Send prototype T-1000 to terminate John Connor in case mission Directive 1 has failed. Destination: 1994
*Completed*
The Human Resistance crashes in, finds the machine, and learns two Terminators were sent. They throw Reese in to follow the T-800 sent in Directive 1. Then they grab the closest T-800 on the rack, re-program him (hefty task, given time constraints and the nit-picky fact that, in the Special Edition, that T-800's CPU was still locked in Read-Only Memory mode!) then thrown Arnold in to take on the T-1000 sent in Directive 2.
Then, they blew the place.
Kicker is, Kyle Reese had no idea what the guys did after he left. They may have aborted the detonation long enough to learn of Directive 2 and send a countermeasure (the second T-800) against it. Reese wasn't there anymore. He told Sarah only what he knew was going on.
Directive 1: Send standard T-800 to terminate Sarah Connor. Destination: 1984
*Completed*
Directive 2: Send prototype T-1000 to terminate John Connor in case mission Directive 1 has failed. Destination: 1994
*Completed*
The Human Resistance crashes in, finds the machine, and learns two Terminators were sent. They throw Reese in to follow the T-800 sent in Directive 1. Then they grab the closest T-800 on the rack, re-program him (hefty task, given time constraints and the nit-picky fact that, in the Special Edition, that T-800's CPU was still locked in Read-Only Memory mode!) then thrown Arnold in to take on the T-1000 sent in Directive 2.
Then, they blew the place.
Kicker is, Kyle Reese had no idea what the guys did after he left. They may have aborted the detonation long enough to learn of Directive 2 and send a countermeasure (the second T-800) against it. Reese wasn't there anymore. He told Sarah only what he knew was going on.
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