doubleofive said:
ChainsawAsh said:
lordjedi said:
This kind of makes sense with what we know of the changing timeline from the TV series.

But this movie completely ignores the TV show. There's two timelines to the "Terminator" series:

TIMELINE A (Official): The Terminator; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; Terminator: Salvation

TIMELINE B (Alternate): The Terminator; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

And as far as in-universe timelines for the movies, there's the T1/T2 "closed-loop" timeline, where Judgment Day occurs in 1997. Then the events of T2 change the future, so that Judgment Day now occurs in 2003, so everything from T3 onward follows the changed (2003 Judgment Day) timeline instead of the original (1997 Judgment Day) timeline.

I think there are too many changes to the Salvation timeline for it to actually ride the T3 timeline. Kate being a surgeon instead of a vet, 10 years too early T-800s...

I'm not sure what I'll do if I ever update my Terminator Timeline again. Either create a new timeline due to the changes made in T3, or move T3 to a new timeline and guess that T4 is what would have happened if Skynet hadn't sent the T-X back.

But wouldn't the T-800s have come earlier if they followed the TV series timeline? Since a head bounced through the time machine and they jumped over T3, wouldn't that make sense? From what we see of the Terminators, they apparently carry the knowledge of how to cover themselves with blood and skin. Doesn't that make it possible for everything to move to an earlier time in history? Once Judgment Day actually happens, they can take that programming that they've brought back in time and upload it into the new Skynet. Then you end up with T-800s sooner than they were suppose to happen.

This is why I hate time travel.