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Emilia Clarke cast as Sarah Connor in Terminator reboot

Well that certainly an interesting twist on the idea of a remake of the original move...but the nerd in me can't help but ponder the paradox of travelling back into a past that has already been altered. That's like an ouroboros with two heads and only one tail...
 
This is what I figured out a while back.

If you can peel back enough scabbing, there is a naked timeline that has never been molested by time travel underneath all this wibbly wobbly timey whimey.

Either Skynet had to have been created without timeravel, and then sent back a pet human to prove a theory, who accidentally gave birth to human resistance if not gave birth to John Connor or someone like John John Connor to fight the machine uprising successfully.

Or Humans in control of the future went back in time & misplaced tech accidentally that jumpstarted a techboom that instigated the invention of AI which man in the 1980s and 1990s was incapable of keeping in check that lead to Judgment Day.

:)
 
It actually looks interesting, usual faults of a Terminator movie but with all the good bits in one. Arnold and Roland in the same scene for once, or is the old T-800 entirely CGI I wonder.
Roland isn't in this one.
 
I'm confused. Is Genisys being billed as a clean reboot or as a reboot via time travel?

Emelia is an ice cream sundae, and I want two spoons.

I watched three trailers on youtube, and this is what I asusme happens.

They start the movie in the future, raiding the time control complex, and send Kyle Reese back.

Reese arrives in 1984 expecting to find a dipshit Sarah Connor who needs saving.

Sarah is however kick ass and saves Reese from the immediate conflict because she's spent the last 15 years being looked after and trained by Uncle Terminator who looks like current day Arnold.

They dispatch the Terminator from the first movie with ease, unfortunately other timelines have also sent Terminator, including a couple liquid metal terminators back. One is Asian and the other one we are very familiar with. Eventually team Connor wins.

Skip ahead 20 years to Judgement Day. We see clips from Terminator 3, but when all seems lost, Linda Hamilton, Michael Bien and Edward Furlong show up and save the day stopping Skynet and saving the world. It's possible that the very beginning, the first 5 minutes of the movie, is showing Skynet win, and then the very end, the last 5 minutes, is showing skynets defeat because the timeline changed.

Chronologically above is what is going to happen, but to #### with us they might play the chapters out of sequence, manufacturing suspense that we suddenly don't know at any which one link in the chain that the Connors are going to fail and Skynet wins because afterall, there is another movie coming out the following summer.
 
The movie is taking place in several time zones.

The movie involves 1984, which they try to recreate verbatim from Kyle Reese's perspective with the new actors who are as young as the original cast was in 1984, until he encounters unexpected changes to the timeline because of new timetravel by other persons/things that predates his arrival in 1984 which makes his attempt to loyally do over the first movie all but impossible because he's been Bill and Tedded.

The Movie also includes 2003(?) which was Judgement Day in the third Movie which now has Linda Hamilton and Michael Bein (Who's characters are both now not dead) doing their part to save the day, and they probably do save the day.

If the movie is almost 3 hours long, I can see the sequences set during 1984 and 2003 both lasting at least an hour. There are other timezones involved but they are less important, or take less time to tell, like capturing the time control complex in 2029 or why what happened to Sarah in 1972 turned her into a stone cold #### by 1984.
 
I'm confused. Is Genisys being billed as a clean reboot or as a reboot via time travel?

I watched three trailers on youtube, and this is what I asusme happens.

We see clips from Terminator 3, but when all seems lost, Linda Hamilton, Michael Bien and Edward Furlong show up and save the day stopping Skynet and saving the world.
Either you're teasing or one of those trailers you watched is a fan-made one.
 
I only started looking for trailers today...

A new trailer came out today.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbOFjl7ZWE[/yt]

However you're right, this is a fake...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzpOG4w29Tg[/yt]

Which I took for granted.

Why do people lie?
 
The Movie also includes 2003(?)

I think they're actually supposed to travel from 1984 to 2017. You can supposedly see the 2nd TDE in the trailer. I don't care much for multiple time travel events as it seems to cheapen things a bit, but there you have it.

I'm guessing the delay of Skynet being built might have to do with the fact that they kill the terminator and don't leave behind any arms or chips to study.
 
Looking at the trailer again - is that an evil version of the T2 Terminator chasing them in the Bus bit?
 
Sigh. It's fine. But, it feels so much of been there done that. I'm bored of the war between humans and machines, bored, bored, bored with the same line, "We can stop judgement day!" I swear, I sorta want the machines to win at this point.
 
Yeah I think that's the biggest problem. It's just hard to get that worked up over the threat of a coming "Judgment Day" anymore. Especially since, no matter what they do, it pretty much keeps coming anyway and Skynet keeps sending machines back again and again.
 
I actually liked Salvation but I find it hard to see any appeal in this.


Don't worry, you're not alone. Despite the problems many people see in it, I still think it a lot better than people are giving it credit for, and at least it was an original story given the confines of their universe, and it gave a wider view of the world itself, something I appreciated.

I see this trailer and all I see is repetition. I'd probably rather watch Salvation than this.
 
Yeah I think that's the biggest problem. It's just hard to get that worked up over the threat of a coming "Judgment Day" anymore. Especially since, no matter what they do, it pretty much keeps coming anyway and Skynet keeps sending machines back again and again.

It has to keep coming or there won't be any fucking sequels, because studios are of limited imagination. A sequel can only be pretty much the same story with either bigger bigger bigger or a slight twist. That's it. Rinse, repeat. That's what it feels like with the Terminator franchise anyway.
 
Sigh. It's fine. But, it feels so much of been there done that. I'm bored of the war between humans and machines, bored, bored, bored with the same line, "We can stop judgement day!" I swear, I sorta want the machines to win at this point.

Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you, but the war between humans and machines is kinda what the franchise is about. It's the linchpin of the series. If you're bored of that then there really isn't much these films can offer you.
 
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