Terminator 2's Time Travel Creates A Paradox That's Been Unfixable For 33 Years

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Summary Terminator 2: Judgment Day is James Cameron’s direct sequel to The Terminator, and much like the first movie, it has plenty of complex sci-fi ideas and time travel concepts that can make it pretty confusing to watch. With multiple characters and various Terminator models jumping around the timeline to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, the film runs head-first into some complicated paradoxes that audiences have struggled to reckon with since it was released.

Related Terminator 2: Judgment Day Ending, Explained From the T-800's sacrifice to Sarah Connor's fate, there's a lot to unpack in the explosive ending of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and its aftermath. ...if there was no war, it's not clear how Connor could have acquired a Terminator to send into the past.

This Cannot Be Explained As A New Timeline The Typical Solution Doesn't Apply Here Bootstrap paradoxes are nothing new, particularly in the sci-fi genre. There are plenty of great movies that use paradoxes to their advantage, most often by explaining away the logical impossibility as the creation of a new timeline.

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