I disagree about the Sarah conner chronicles. The problem with terminator was that everytime a machine came back in time it cheapened the story. The original was the best and the second was awesome as you say because they introduced something new in the x1000 but with so many terminators it just got silly.
The original terminator was the best but when it turned into a franchise they changed the rules. At the end of T2 they supposedly stopped skynet being invented which was logical and made sense
Did it? It only stopped one possible outcome. What TSCC explored is the idea that the future is constantly changing as a consequence of what is going on in the present, of which there are many competing things. More specifically that the present is filled with people and machines from multiple concurrent futures*
but they broke the rules and now there is no reason 1000000 terminators can't travel back until they succeed. Really dumb story telling.
Actually, no. There are large numbers of them, but most are on other missions, not all of which (and by inference only a minority of which) are necessarily about killing key humans. These other missions range from acquiring resources needed to produce the various alloys the machines need in the future to sabotaging infrastructure the resistance will need and so on.
Terminating John Connor, while a key central theme, is no more pivotal to Skynet's future success than destroying Cyberdyne was pivotal to the resistance. It's one battle in an ongoing war.
*For example, in one episode in season 2, one of the resistance fighters (Jessie) sent back in time recognises and captures a collaborator that appears to have also come back from the future. It turns out that he was in solitary confinement in prison on a life sentence when judgement day kicked off and was subsequently captured by the machines who used him to teach them how people "tick", how to extract information effectively and how to break them. In the future flashback, it's revealed that he tortured one of the central characters in the story (Derek Reese, elder brother of Kyle). However, Derek simply isn't able to recognise the man Jessie has captured. Jessie is eventually able to prove that the man she captures is the collaborator, by locating his younger self. However, Derek has no memory of his weeks of torture at his hands. Jessie is perplexed at how he can't recall it, despite their talking about it at great length in their shared future together. Ultimately, they kill the collaborator and let the younger present-day version of him go.
Jessie believes is memory block it to be trauma-induced. However, Derek recognises that in capturing the younger guy in the present (along with various other actions he has done to try and alter the future), that perhaps he comes from a future in which he wasn't tortured whereas Jessie comes from an alternate future in which he was. They both came back separately on different missions and so each may represent alternate futures.
A twist in the plot of this episode is that the present-day young version of the guy is later arrested under Homeland Security rules for a serious crime (hacking and installation of some unremovable code in sensitive defence networks) and is ultimately thrown in jail, despite having no recollection of committing it. However, the evidence is totally stacked against him, including biometric access, retinal scans and so on. Naturally, it turns out that it was his older self from the future's mission to do this hack on behalf of Skynet. Thus he seems locked into a circular fate wherein he survives judgement day and have his entire story arc play out again, thus covering another paradox case in time travel.
Also i agree that avatar had an interest sub story with Pandora itself being alive and interconnected. The idea of plants being intelligent is really cool. It's a shame about the movie though.
Yeah, it wasn't great plot but it pushed a few technical envelopes in it's production that I appreciated.
