Originally posted by Darth Thor
SPOILERSThey explain it pretty clearly in the film. That the Terminator that kills him is from a future that never happened. So you are correct that the past remains the same.
I mean frankly you come up with the same issue at the end of T2, when Judgement Day never happens, so Kyle is never sent back, so John is never born.... And yet hes still there.
Well I mean T3 did say JD was inevitable, so there isn’t a issue with Reese, at least in that timeline.
Sure if you go from the deleted ending of T2, that’s also an issue, never said it wasn’t.
Though I guess if that’s the explanation of the past remaining the same with different futures after, I guess that’s fine?
I guess it’s following what the comics and Genysis went. Comics there were versions of John who grew up normal yet still felt his other selves fighting Skynet.
Though killing him doesn’t really do much for the story as I see it, they could have just let him have a life.