How many of you really see a need for T3?

[RamboPreacher]

nono, I thought the company already existed adn that their recovery and R&D of the chip/parts helped them go that direction. I didn't think that the existance of the parts from the future was what made the company exist to begin with.

And what company in their right mind doesn't keep off-site storage of backup media, and in the case of larger companies, entire mirrored sites for business recovery/resumption.

yea, like only one guy knew anything about the chip - I can seel alot of possible directions. and they may not, or need not have to do with the company even.

it's about entertainment, not whether thousand year old jump jets will fly on thousand year old fuel!

[Hasty8]

True, but the entire facility was reduced to saw dust.

That's an avenue I never did consider. It is likely that the company will have some version of the work mirrored elswhere even though the entire building was destroyed. And yes, the company did exist prior to the finding of the remains of the first erminator but as Miles Dyson said it was the discovery of the chip that set them in that "radical new direction". His words clearly imply a sense of neccessity of the chip, that without it Skynet would of never been created. IF that is so your note about the work being stored elsewhere still doesn't solve the temporal anamoly presented in the T movies which is truly a what came first? The chicken or the egg? Skynet or the chip?

And I understand that it is just entertainment which is what I said at the begining of my previous post but I, along with a few of my friends, tend to pick movies apart like that. It's part of what makes them fun.

(of course, just to play devils advocate, Miles Dyson does say that when he asked the company where they got the chip from he was told not to ask. This implies a need for secrecy and it is conceivable that the company did not back up the work done to a secondary site. However, since this was never fully explained it allows the creators of T3 an avenue to allow the creation of SKynet but again, it never answers the paradox that the T movies presents us with)

[dre1919]

I like your argument on the issue Hasty8, I've often thought about the same thing when watching the movies myself. I tell you the paradox that messes with my head is the whole Reese being John Conner's father. It's as though he has a retro-active father of sorts in the future that he must choose to send back. If Reese doesn't volunteer (or John Conner doesn't pick him to go back), then JC wouldn't exist because the make up of Reese and Sarah makes him who he is. Any other father would have produced a different child entirely. Ok...so Reese must go back to impregnate Sarah, but there doesn't seem to be a starting point to that loop because how could John have been born, grown up, and functioning in the future until the exact point where Reese goes back, thereby altering the future? My head's spinning right now thinking about it.

[Hasty8]

That' another point to the story that's theoretically impossible

Because of the entire concept of time travel.

JC knew that Reese was his father and that is why he chose Reese to go back but that entire paradox is secondary to the primary one regarding the creation of Skynet.

[-=Squid=-]

My face exploded.