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   tsbrueni@gmail.com to Ronald O. Christian   
   Re: Terminator 3 questions   
   23 Dec 14 00:17:11   
   
   On Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:58:58 AM UTC-8, Ronald O. Christian wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:34:24 GMT, Julie d'Aubigny   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Tweek wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> He was chosen to kill JC because the machines knew JC had a father-figure   
   > >> relationship with that model from T2 and I guess maybe also T3, so they   
   > >> thought JC would allow the T-800 to get close to him somehow. It's a bit   
   of   
   > >> a paradox. Now that JC has been told by the T-800 that he is the same   
   T-800   
   > >> that has "already" killed him in the future , you would expect JC to avoid   
   > >> any T-800s from now on. Sort of a mindbender.   
   > >   
   > >Not really. It seems to me that the JC who was killed didn't have the   
   > >experience of meeting the T-800 who killed him just before Judgement   
   > >Day. That is, each Terminator movie introduces changes to the timeline.   
   >   
   > In fact, this seems more or less to be the plot of the latest film --   
   > that the timeline has been messed up by all the previous trips, and   
   > the circumstances of the original Terminator could no longer happen.   
      
   Meaning that we can avoid the whole Skynet coup?   
      
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