10-02-2005, 01:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2005, 01:54 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
The cinematic trilogy that we do have in the Terminator franchise may have been salvaged if story elements from the third movie were made into the second movie.
Imagine: the first movie is set before John Connor is born, with a T-800 sent to assassinate Sarah Connor. The second movie is set on the eve of Judgement Day, as SkyNet understands it needs to execute a two-fold Terminator mission: go after John Connor and ensure that the Connors are not successful in thwarting the actual nuclear attack. It sends on this mission the next step in the Terminator concept: a tactical chassis (tougher yet nonetheless quite destructible) with a polymorphic metal skin instead of the cultured organic disguise.
Third and last movie "goes back" to the years intervening between the first and second to ensure total success. SkyNet send its most advanced design: a Terminator made wholly out of that funky polymorphic alloy used earlier to make it virtually indestructible. This sucker is sent to kill John Connor as a kid, and the T-800 guardian sent back spurs a tangent outcome: it and the Connors are now in position to blast CyberDyne and wreck SkyNet's future (an option not made possible until the T-800 was sent back to counter the T-1000 sent).
Imagine: the first movie is set before John Connor is born, with a T-800 sent to assassinate Sarah Connor. The second movie is set on the eve of Judgement Day, as SkyNet understands it needs to execute a two-fold Terminator mission: go after John Connor and ensure that the Connors are not successful in thwarting the actual nuclear attack. It sends on this mission the next step in the Terminator concept: a tactical chassis (tougher yet nonetheless quite destructible) with a polymorphic metal skin instead of the cultured organic disguise.
Third and last movie "goes back" to the years intervening between the first and second to ensure total success. SkyNet send its most advanced design: a Terminator made wholly out of that funky polymorphic alloy used earlier to make it virtually indestructible. This sucker is sent to kill John Connor as a kid, and the T-800 guardian sent back spurs a tangent outcome: it and the Connors are now in position to blast CyberDyne and wreck SkyNet's future (an option not made possible until the T-800 was sent back to counter the T-1000 sent).
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