Putting Things in Order
March 11, 2010 in Blogs
The latest installment of the temporal anomalies articles at The Examiner has been posted. Terminator part 10: resequencing considers the peculiar aspect of the position of the film in the lives of those around it. For John Conner, Skynet has already tried to kill his mother, and him, and his lieutenants, and is now after his father; for Skynet, the attack on Kyle Reese comes first, before the attacks on Sarah or the young John or Kate and company. That raises some interesting questions about the film, some of which will await next week’s post.
I’ve received some feedback on the time travel lecture script, but could use more, particularly from someone whose understanding of the theory is considerably weaker or non-existent. Again, drop me a note at Traveler@Multiverser.org if you’re interested and have a spare hour or so you can devote to reading and commenting.
Thanks again.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on March 11, 2010
The thing never answered in Salvation was how did SkyNet know that Reese was John’s father? And if it did, why didn’t it just kill him on the spot when it had the chance?
M. J. Young said on March 12, 2010
I actually cover that in article 12 in the series; but since article 10 is the last one that posted, you probably wouldn’t know that (unless you were sneaking peeks at http://www.mjyoung.net/time/examiner.html The Examiner Connection, the page on which I index those articles, which usually has the names and subject matters of an entire series from the moment it starts).
–M. J. Young
M. J. Young said on March 21, 2010
John–I just thought I’d mention that article 12 posted; I didn’t get any feedback on it. Of course, it does point forward to tomorrow’s article, too, so maybe you’re waiting to read that part of the answer.
–M. J. Young