Embed this noticeAlexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:23:47 JST
Alexandre Olivaholy gnu! the first movie in The Terminator series has an opening scene in 2029, but the action is in 1984. that's 40 years ago! the title in pt-BR is "the terminator from the future", but in another 5 years, it won't be from the future any more
we're currently at year 5 b.S.
that was supposed to mean 5 years before Skynet, but with all the shitterbots in action ATM, it's not at all unreasonable to say that we're living in the b.S. era
@lxo 2029 is when Reese and the Model 101 came back from; but that's years after Skynet took over (J-Day).
In the first movie J-Day was at least 2021 (Reese says that he served "under Perry, from '21 to '27"). I feel like there as an even earlier date given, but I'd have to re-watch the movie to be sure.
In the second movie, it's revealed that Reese told Sarah that J-Day is Aug 29th, 1997; but I don't think the first movie included that scene.
true, 2029 was not when skynet "woke up" in any of the changing timelines (*) in the movie series. but I was not willing to sacrifice a joke about the botShit era over such details ;-D
(*) I love the observation that actions we take today may change the future in our own timeline, just like the concerns that actions taken after traveling in time to the past may affect our "present", and it doesn't run into difficulties such as having to travel back in time, and uncertainties such as whether it's even possible to change the past