In 1984, when The Terminator released the first part, Connor sent his warriors back to the past to protect his mother, but instead decided his own birth. This time game was not a classic at the time. However, in the next few episodes, the same timeline was repeatedly altered, each time returning to the past, returning to the past. Looking at the entire series, each time it seems to have rewritten the future, but the next episode will prove that , the battle in the last part has not changed the overall future pattern. The repeated revisions to the timeline have also resulted in a lack of coherence and inheritance of the overall story, apart from the iconic pictures mentioned above.
We first jump out of the time in the story and return to the real timeline. The first three Terminators made Schwarzenegger popular and created this series. In the fourth "Terminator 2018", the governor was so busy that he could not get away from it. Fortunately, John Connor became the protagonist, and the result ushered in a double dismal reputation and box office. After the governor retired, he hopes to return to his old business, but several works are not satisfactory. Naturally, the Terminator series came to mind. But the hero is too late. Although Arnold's muscles have not lost his strength, the wrinkles on his face still betray him. If all the special effects are used to smooth the face, the cost is too high, so the screenwriter has a big brain to come up with the nonsense reason that the skin outside the machine will also age to fool the audience. The "Terminator" who is no longer young, with his classic image of the screen, once again started the journey of modifying the timeline.
The first 40 minutes of the film are basically a synthesis and review of the previous plot. Of course, for a collection that was brilliant in the late 20th century, early 21st century, you could say it's a tribute. It's just that this tribute is a bit "full" too much, and it almost made me collapse. When the old man driving the truck appeared with the lightning, it gave a very familiar feeling of deja vu, and then the face of the young Schwarzenegger came into view, and I was completely broken. Then I saw the scene of Li Si going back to 1984, and I almost fell into despair: Could it be that a different actor re-shot the first film... Fortunately, it turned out to be different later. However, the repeated scenes for such a long time are really scary.
Let's sort out the timeline. Among the Terminator works, except that they all return to the past from a future, there is no very direct connection between each past time point. This caused the plan of the second Skynet to be thwarted, and the bug that came back to life in the third one existed. Even the character of John Connor looks completely different in each film. From the plot, the background is introduced at the beginning of each film, and then the two robots fight. The results of it? When the next part is the time to change the time point of time travel, everything can start all over again.
It can be seen that Schwarzenegger does not want the Terminator series to be dragged down by the third part and the poor reputation of 2018, so he intends to restart the series. In order to achieve this purpose, he even moved out of the theory of parallel timelines. In many sci-fi worldviews, the restart of the timeline will be involved. For example, the Scarlet Witch and the X-Men in Marvel, and the Flash in DC are the author's eraser. Whenever the creative resources are exhausted, they use the abilities of these characters to re-modify the time, or open a parallel universe in a parallel universe. new story. However, in terms of the volume of the story, the Terminator series is far from requiring such frequent revision time. In "One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes", the time chicken taught young people: "Time cannot be changed arbitrarily." Such a story method of frequently resetting the timeline can easily cause the audience to experience aesthetic fatigue in the same plot mode. One after another pit caused by the change of the time line can only be filled with the poor excuse of "the skin outside the machine will also age".
The film Genesis is, in the final analysis, a game of time in which the director replays his old tricks. In the easter egg at the end, the director hinted that Skynet has not been eliminated, in other words, this series will continue to produce works. We don't know when we will return next. I'm just meddling with my own business here and worrying about two issues: one is to become the governor of a liquid metal robot, and there is a limit to the aging of the outer skin, what to do after that. Second, from the current point of view, the time in which each film returns to the plot is basically the launch time of the film. Seeing that 2027 is coming soon, for the future of the "future", I don't know how the gold medal screenwriter will start.
Thinking of this, I wonder if the director will regret that in 1984, the setting for 2027 was not long enough. But I want to insert a word here, just a year after the first "Terminator" was released, the first "Back to the Future" was also released. In this series, Dr.'s analysis and structure of time travel is very clear and logical, which has a great influence on the works of time travel. After the trilogy, Back to the Future came to a close in 1990 without an endless time travel. The two contemporaneous series are the earliest works that are iconic for time travel. The Terminators are busy returning to the past to fight repeatedly. It is not that they have no ability to think about the connection between the various timelines, but that they are reluctant to attract money behind the brand. The game of time is, after all, just a game of money.
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