t3
One thing that I find annoying about the whole Terminator saga is that the first one was supposed to be the only one. According to Reece in T1, the human resistance destroyed the time machine after they sent him back to intercept the first Terminator. Although Reece unknowingly contaminates the timeline (actually fulfills his destiny) by impregnating Sarah Conner, he dies, closing the circle.
In T2, it was suggested that another Terminator (the T-1000) was sent back before the time machine was destroyed to kill John Conner as a teenager, and a reprogrammed T-800 (Arnie) was sent to intercept the new T model. This already brought about a continuity problem ... if the resistance was able to reprogram a Terminator at that time to take on the new model in 1991, then why weren't they able to reprogram a second one to take on the earlier one sent to 1984, since the four transports apparently occurred within a short time of each other (perhaps only enough time to program one T-800)? Also at the end of T2, Arnie heroically takes a dip in molten lava to prevent the use of any of his parts or information to be used to establish Skynet, the AI that destroys the world.
Now, we have T3, where the newest model 😱 comes on the scene,
Spoiler:
to kill John Conner (again) and /or establish the foundation for Skynet and destroy the world for the machines to rise.
Don't tell me that the machines were able to send a third Terminator,even more updated than the T-1000 (the new one is called the TX, and
Spoiler:before the time machine was destroyed without either of the previous saviors being aware of it!
is referred to as the Queen of the machines
In the original movie's storyline, the machines were losing against a human resistance being led by an adult John Conner. Is it possible that the machines have more than one time machine? If so, what is the point? Terminators can be sent at any point in time whenever the machines feel like it. Hopefully, the TX, being
Spoiler:, will be the last of the bunch. However, as Patrick Stewart noted of the "last" Star Trek, if the movie makes $300 million, a sequel is inevitable.
the Queen
Arnold Schwartzenegger has stated there might be a Terminator 4. I have not read anything suggesting the TX is the "Queen of the machines". She is simply an advanced model over the T-1000. Also what you are trying to understand is something we like to call...temporal paradox and cannot easily be explained.
I concur with the Augeycrawler. Thing is I don't even like the original Terminator. I only got into it when T2 came out in 1991 and got back into it when I saw it on TV two or three years ago. Oh and T2 aired again here last night. Fantastic stuff. I hope this new installment does as good-or better.
Even if they had sent the TX to ensure the establishment of Skynet and the death John Connor, as soon as Skynet had been destroyed and the parts from the very first terminator destroyed, all the machines would never be built. yet in the trailer, there they are.
I seriously hope that T3 takes place in august 1997, because that was the month of the Nuclear attack from Skynet. If it takes place now, 2003, the world should already be in a nuclear winter.