gideongallery

it not a hole it the entire point of the plot.

the movie is about a temperal paradox, skynet could not change the future by sending the terminator into the past, because the entire event was part of history.

if you want an example of predesidation paradox being done really well check out the childrens cartoon gargoyles


if you watch the movie there are a lot of other things that would never have happened if the terminator had not been hunting Sarah Conner.

Sarah Conner would never learned all of the combat tactics she taught john, or become the bad ass leader (remember the scene where she start yelling at micheal to get up solider)

Sarah Conner would never have gone into hiding allowing her and her unborn child to survive. (end of the movie)

Sarah Conner would never have taken the picture, to give to her son, which resulted in Micheal falling in love with her so he would volenteer for the mission in the first place.


The most interesting part of that movie was the fact that it was a paradox. When you watch it over and over you can find an ever increasing number of things that are dependent on the paradox to exist. That actually what is so cool about the original movie, all of these characteristics were hidden until the big reveal of the primary paradox.

It only when you watch the movie over and over again do you notice all of the other dependent characteristics which confirm/support the paradox fully.

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