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Super Freak
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I was with you guys for a while but then came back to the thread and was hit by a taxi and now I've finally regained consciousness.
Yeah, sorry about that.Good points. Fortunately the T-800 and Kyle going back in time was off screen so I can then say that when the humans stormed the complex they found the TDE, realized what it was capable of and how it worked, saw naked Arnold walking toward the light (let's say his back was to the soldiers which is why Kyle couldn't recognize him,) Kyle sprints toward him while discarding his clothes and effectively dives through at the same time that the T-800 enters. Then they're both basically passengers on the same "trip" but emerge in different locations.
Of course I realize that that explanation really only holds up if only the first film is canon but I've always preferred the perfect and poetic loop of the original anyway. For T2 to work under the same logic I'd probably have to say that there's some kind of lag between when the TDE is activated and when it can actually send travelers through time. Like the first T-800 enters the energy field and is frozen in some kind of impenetrable force field for a few minutes while the machine is charging up or something. The humans see what is happening and send in Reese who also then gets frozen. Skynet sees Reese enter the field and says oh yeah well here's the T-1000. T-1000 enters the field with different entry coordinates, the humans freak out as the machine is almost at full power, reprogram Uncle Bob and send him in right before the TDE hits full power and sends all four travelers at once. Think Starkiller Base with a single blast branching off to different yet simultaneous (so to speak) end points.
During the journey the four travelers exist in bubbles (that we actually see on screen when they arrive) that are temporarily outside of space and time so that if one set of travelers does something that would normally negate the existence of the other travelers then the latter are still protected. Definitely a stretch to include the events of T2 into my scenario but in my mind it works. And just in case it needs to be said in my canon they do *not* create a happily ever after future where no future war exists. So even after Sarah's hopeful speech about the dark highway at night someone still continues Dyson's work, retrieves the arm that Arnold lost in the steel mill, and the war happens just as we saw in the flashbacks of both films.
So what you're saying is that there's absolutely no way you'll be adopting the multiple timelines explanation.
I once again find myself admiring the creativity here, even though I'm personally quite happy with no judgment day or future war post-T2, and happy with how fully the multiple timelines makes sense of T1 and T2 together. If you ever write any SW or Terminator fan fiction, go ahead and add me to the list of customers please. Always a good and fun read.
BTW,
at the Starkiller reference.
