Comments on: Linda Hamilton in Terminator Salvation?

By: Beauty Beholder

Beauty Beholder — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:14:24 +0000

I’d like to see the following plot twist. Sarah Connor FAKED her death from leukemia for the history books to make SkyNet gaze in another direction in its surgical attempts to alter its timeline. She decides to take on skynet herself directly, because she stumbled upon proof of John’s actual failure and death (archived video record of him dying in a sensor drone memory bank that goes into hybernation after time traveling and gathering data; the way SkyNet tries to get intel updates back into its own time). Now she has to sacrifice herself by going into hiding FROM even her own son, in order to save him at the critical moment somehow. This would jibe with Linda Hamilton’s real world age, and restore her as one of film’s ultimate female badasses.

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Hint: what goes wrong is SkyNet makes a Terminator Sarah (TS)! In order for her to prove to John its not ACTUALLY HER (so TS can’t reunite with, betray and kill him), the real Sarah intends to present herself as a second Sarah, exposing that one is not real. The Video she sees is images of herself killing her own son, and at first she is horrified and goes on the run to the other side of the planet to be FAR from John & even considers suicide, before she eventually realizes it could never be something she would be driven to do. She replays the video in her mind endlessly for years as she goes nuts in some partly deforested jungle, until in a dream she gets the telltale eyeflash that reveals a doppelganger terminator for what it is. But not in the images of Sarah (herself). But in John’s eyes! So it HAD to be SkyNet making doubles of BOTH of them!

Terminator John…. TJ (hehe)

Perhaps the insertion points for time travel are limited by something like planetary alignment, and can only be used once or for a short time span. You can shoot a few selected objects through the wormhole, but just during a specific time in the future as well. Basically shooting at the past physical position of the earth when like a speeding car it passes in front of a drinking straw you’re peering through. It can target Sarah in the 80’s, John a few times in the 90’s but SkyNet’s LAST CHANCE is to get them both right before they blow it up. Why didn’t it get Sarah as a little girl? The MOON was in the way! And not her parents? She was adopted and her records got lost to SkyNet.

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:23:08 +0000

Lena Headly would rock in Terminator Salvation

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:22:14 +0000

I don’t understand what’s with everyone with Terminator 3. The film was awesome. The show was great too. Anyone watch it.

By: gene

gene — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:59:51 +0000

I think the sarah conner from the show could be a good choice too.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:41 +0000

Sarah Connor Chronicles is a good show but it only stays good if you don’t try to “fit it in” with the movies.

It kinda stands on its own and much like Smallville, it remains good while ignoring cannon.

By: Supernetuser

Supernetuser — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:05:14 +0000

Now you guys have gone and sparked my interest in the Sarah Conner Chronicles. I hope they have a long run, enough to make an impression on the Terminator series canon.

By: 790

790 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:17:51 +0000

Fun read and very interesting comments,,, to all of you.

One thing about the Terminator telling John that he killed him in T3, we really don’t know what happend during the reprogramming of the T-800’s and the events when they were sent back in time.
I’ve allways speculated that Skynet was taken down but could have had a huge UPS (uninterupted power supply) somewhere and it was a time factor that Connor was up against when he and his crew found the Time Displacement tech. This would explain why they had to destroy it.

Well during the reprogramming phase the techs might have been in a hurry, done something wrong, and somehow the Terminator “thought he killed John ,but really didn’t… ????

By: BamBamAlakazaam

BamBamAlakazaam — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:25:16 +0000

@Rodney
yup I agree with you Rodney, the whole time travelling thing does get old by now lol. Actually i’ve been waiting for the future part of terminator ever since i saw a glimpse of it in the first movie, and i thought we would never see it cause, its really not the point(yet), but now after T3, its finally here. talk about a dream come true lol.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:12:59 +0000

@Bam, I do like that this movie wont deal so much with time travel as the previous ones strongly did.

Also, it is an interesting twist that this movie is technically a prequel AND a sequel.

Fun stuff.

By: BamBamAlakazaam

BamBamAlakazaam — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:18:36 +0000

@Shadopup

cool, would be interesting to see what the machines has cook up for us humans ;) .

Its kinda tricky when all 3 past movies deals with time traveling into the past, and the premise of T4 sets in “that” future we’ve been hearing alot about lol. So i’m thinking whatever the surprise the machines have set for us, must be something that will make a difference for Skynet and send the human race into peril again, or extinction. But if Skynet fails again, like it did in 3 movies before (what a dumbass lol) now i’m thinking, for a super-smart computer like Skynet, wouldn’t it be much better if Skynet duplicate it self and sends the duplicate into the future? That way, if the resistance did terminate Skynet, it still would survive as Skynet 2.0 that was sent to the future, and start the whole sending-back-ppl/machines all over again, only this time it takes in the past that is the future that we see in T4. lol does that make sense?