I'm finally getting around to watching Terminator: Dark Fate and a couple of thoughts occurred to me:
1) In the first movie, it's established that non organic materials cannot go back in time. Kyle Reese and the T-800 both were able to travel in time because of the biological / organic components. Kyle because he's human and the T-800 because he's cybernetic / a cyborg and has organic elements around the robotic skeleton. This is why neither could bring weapons from the future or even clothing.
But, in Terminator 2, we get the T-1000... the "liquid metal" terminator. The key word there being metal. It does not have an organic component, so why is it able to travel back in time? One could make an argument that the terminators of Genysis (T-3000 "John Conner") and Dark Fate (the Rev-9) are on different timelines and thus likely have different time travel methods, making that restriction no longer valid, but that doesn't excuse T-2. (If I'm forgetting something from T-2 that explains this, please remind me)
2) Part of the Dark Fate storyline essentially retcons everything after T-2. While this is a typical plot/story piece in each movie (Judgement day changes as a result of what happens in an earlier set Terminator movie), the change in Dark Fate leads to a big flaw in the movie's logic. If Skynet was taken out of existence at the end of T-2, which Dark Fate makes clear is the case since "Legion" is the new evil AI and "Karl" knows that Skynet no longer exists, then there was no Skynet to create and send "Karl" back to 1998 as that 1998 is the new "no Judgement day" timeline. If the Skynet of T-2 sent another Terminator to 1998, then it would have gone to the T-2 timeline's 1998 where Sarah and John had not wiped the entirety of the AI from existence.
Submitted October 18, 2020 at 04:25AM by HyruleBalverine https://ift.tt/3k8Esz9
