Topic: Terminator Genisys

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I'd love to see a sequel where the heroes realize that as long as they oppose SkyNet militarily, they will never win, and instead pull a SkyNet and go back to actually CREATE SkyNet (or have a hand in its intellectual development) and prevent it from creating itself as a monster.

Genisys even says something similar itself, along the lines of "Can you blame me when your kind have sought to kill me or enslave me since before my first thought?"

Basically, they come to a sobering realization that they can only "win" by going back and being NICE to it, and being respectful to it as a living, self-determining entity.

And then BOOM.

All of the future is rewritten and Judgement Day is completely avoided.

[zangetsu468]

All of the future is rewritten and Judgement Day is completely avoided.

The greatest irony will probably be if and when JD is avoided by machines but still happens via humanity.
Humans created the machines to begin with so there's always this lingering thought that humanity was destined to try and eliminate itself with the machines being the method of destruction. The responsibility still weighs upon the humans.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Or, put another way: they convince SkyNet to give peace a chance, and it avoids Judgment Day by not pressing the kill button.

And then humanity blows itself up anyway.

And the heroes are all "Fuck. Did not see that coming."

[zangetsu468]

And the heroes are all "Fuck. Did not see that coming."

I almost nunchucked you brother, you don't even realise!

[crisis]

in my own headcanon the terminator saga is just chronicling everything that eventually leads up to The Matrix

[X]

Haha! I noticed the Terminator/Matrix similarity myself when I first saw the film