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The timeline aspect of this show is totally fucking with my head.
The "mission" of Sarah and John seems to be contradictory. Are they trying to stop SkyNet from ever happening, eliminating the inevitability of Judgment Day, or are they doing everything they can to make sure that all the right people are alive to battle the machines? Or is it both?
Also, in a fictitious world where time travel is possible, why wouldn't either side go back in time far enough to ensure that any of the people responsible are never born? Why wouldn't the machines go back and kill Sarah Connor's parents before she was born? Why wouldn't the resistance kill the makers of SkyNet when they were babies?
I know, I know, there would be no show if that happened, but time travel-based fiction always begs these questions.....they are set up as "we'll travel back in time, but we only have one shot to fix this!" whereas the reality would be "if we mess this up, we can just jump back in time and try again"
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