Sean Kelly
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Registered: Jan 2003
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Location: Silicon Valley
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Beware, plot spoilers follow.
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The concept is this: Cyberdyne systems launched it's cybernetic technology research and development as a result of finding components of the original terminator in the hydraulic press and through reverse-engineering developed what we as viewers assumed to be the ultimate cause of the horrible outcome prophesized by Reece in the first film.
Now - if cyberdyne based their efforts on something which already existed in the future, a cybernetic organism sent into the past to hunt and destroy, who do you suppose designed the cyborg? It can't have been Cyberdyne because that would result in a space-time causality paradox.
The answer is that it was never Cyberdyne at all. Cyberdyne looked promising and made sense at the time to a 14 year old hero (and to the rest of us viewers, for that matter), but in the end really had no impact on the outcome of future events. Instead it was the U.S. military's development efforts on the SkyNet project. Reece spoke of SkyNet in the first film, but nobody ever bothered tracking down the origins of SkyNet and we always assumed it was Cyberdyne. Wrong!
So ultimately the destruction of Cyberdyne didn't have any impact on the outcome of events and ultimately the film highlights the question of fate. "No fate but what we make for ourselves." - yet despite their greatest efforts, fate seemed to catch up with them and with SkyNet activated, the future unfolds exactly as has been prophesized - or mandated.
At least that's my take on it, I could be wrong.. 
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07-29-2003 06:11 PM
