The thing that The Terminator most reminded me of isn't the Harlan Ellison episodes of The Outer Limits (which I must admit I know only from plot synopses), but "The Day of the Daleks".
I really like the shifting timelines in the Terminator series, and I quite like the shifting theories of time between the three films too (in the first, all is already determined in a perfect causal loop; in the second, the future depends strongly on our choices; in the third, the broad shape of the future is less amenable to change than its details).
It would be a really neat twist if agents of several possible future Skynets - or other malevolent AIs derived from the same research in the present - ended up battling against each other and the various human resistances, each trying to make actual their own potential existence. But just thinking about the causal implications of that too much gives me a headache.
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Date: 2008-04-04 07:14 pm (UTC)I really like the shifting timelines in the Terminator series, and I quite like the shifting theories of time between the three films too (in the first, all is already determined in a perfect causal loop; in the second, the future depends strongly on our choices; in the third, the broad shape of the future is less amenable to change than its details).
It would be a really neat twist if agents of several possible future Skynets - or other malevolent AIs derived from the same research in the present - ended up battling against each other and the various human resistances, each trying to make actual their own potential existence. But just thinking about the causal implications of that too much gives me a headache.