I thought we figured it out; the guy who broke the date with Sarah on her machine after work that first day she was home with Ginger... he said he would call her in a few days... in the original timeline he was the father of the future... or Sarah was a real **** and had many much multiple sex partners; maybe MATT, Ginger's boyfriend had a fling with Sarah! Maybe after Sarah came back from the movies, she sat outside crying, then when Matt was done with Ginger, and was about to leave, he found Sarah crying, and took her in his arms and made mad love to her in the living room while Ginger slept with her headphones on... Then Sarah was so devestated by screwing her best friend's guy, she ran off to Mexico to raise her son in private... etc etc...
__________________ 'The future is not set...'
'I'll be back...'
'Hasta la vista, baby!'
'I'm back!'
'Come with me if you want to live!'
'You're terminated!'
Yeah, I like that! The ORIGINAL timeline is the one BEFORE schwartznegger originally turned up and started messing with time right? Sally was a real **** - not unheard of!
I think when the original was set, the internet had not begun AT ALL, so Skynet would have a different origin altogether (was it even called "Skynet" in the original?)
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Reece is dead. He died in the past, and he never said that if he died, he'd still be alive in the future. He should stay dead, cause he looks like shit now.
Or maybe it's all one time loop, and Reese was originally John's father, just like the time loop with Cyberdine and the Terminator's arm. The arm was found and researched, which should have led to Judgment Day. But since the arm and chip were destroyed, JD was delayed.
__________________ "The MTV Movie Awards are a systemic anomaly inherent to the programming of the Matrix. Although the transport process has altered your consciousness, you irrevocably remain human. Ergo, concordantly, vis-a-vis... You know what? I have no idea what the hell I'm saying. I just thought it would make me sound cool."
-The Architect AKA Larry
Actually, there's a flaw in that. Reese had to be John's father all along, because in the timeline that Reese came from, he was John's father. Remember the photo that he had of Sarah? She got that at the end of the first movie when she was on the run. So the Terminator ordeal had already happened, meaning that Reese was always John's father. As I said above, a Time Loop.
__________________ "The MTV Movie Awards are a systemic anomaly inherent to the programming of the Matrix. Although the transport process has altered your consciousness, you irrevocably remain human. Ergo, concordantly, vis-a-vis... You know what? I have no idea what the hell I'm saying. I just thought it would make me sound cool."
-The Architect AKA Larry
She could have ran off for any number of reasons to raise her baby in Mexico in the original timeline... like I said, she could have been seduced by horn-dog Matt who screwed her and got her pregnant, so she ran away from LA and Ginger... or the guy from the answering machine could have been a lieutenant in the Crips or Bloods, some real bad-ass who could have also got her pregnant and hooked on crank or crack or something else, or he would have if she stayed in LA... so she ran off to Mexico, ran out of gas at that same station in every timeline, because only some things change while most things stay the same in each timeline... got her picture taken and went on her way thru history that first boring timeline.... until Judgment Day, the war, John rising up as the great general, etc etc...
it could happen...
__________________ 'The future is not set...'
'I'll be back...'
'Hasta la vista, baby!'
'I'm back!'
'Come with me if you want to live!'
'You're terminated!'
reese jumps back along that line,
reese fathers john,
reese dies,
sarah gets mexico polaroid,
gives polaroid to john,
john gives polaroid to reese,
john orders reese to go back in time,
reese jumps back along that line,
(if we ignore the paradox of reese traveling back and fathering the man who sends him back)
Yes, I believe that that is and always was the original timeline. By Reese coming back, he continued the timeline.
__________________ "The MTV Movie Awards are a systemic anomaly inherent to the programming of the Matrix. Although the transport process has altered your consciousness, you irrevocably remain human. Ergo, concordantly, vis-a-vis... You know what? I have no idea what the hell I'm saying. I just thought it would make me sound cool."
-The Architect AKA Larry
John would have been born no matter what. I doesn't really matter who the fater is. The leadership qualities were in Sarah, which is where he gets it from. You can see this by what Sarah becomes in T2; a strong holds-her-own woman. The qualities were always in HER; they were just dormant until she had to release them. Much as John would have to release them during the war.