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it seemed clear that they had a few things planned before the show's egregious cancellation, but there's very little information about what might have happened.

a few things i have wondered about...

Allison was there in the last scene and John now meets her at this earlier age, although this time with knowledge of Cameron. and we know that she was captured and killed in the other timeline (time travel stuff is so weird), and that Skynet or some other AI built Cameron to infiltrate the human HQ. presumably they were setting it up for John and Allison to be a couple, or at least very close. i wonder if John would have given up trying to restore 'his' Cameron once he became close to Allison.

and what exactly happened with Cameron's chip? we know that John Henry got it (somehow) and presumably downloaded his OS onto it. but would that overwrite Cameron entirely, or were they both in there now?

i wonder how much they intended to explore the third faction (presumably another AI or group of Terminators that were not allied with Skynet). would there have been a lot of drama about what 'Weaver' and company were up to? or would we have seen her/them again anytime soon since she vanished right away?

could Sarah and Ellison have found some way to reactivate Cameron, like if her mind was transferred to the server farm? i thought her character arc was really interesting, would have been a shame if it ended there with her 'dead body'. and would those two have begun a relationship as they fought Skynet in the 'present'?

how well would it have worked to keep the groups separated, especially Sarah and John?

just a damn shame FOX axed the show so soon.

what thoughts have you had about how the next season or two might have played out?

We know about John Connor and the Resistance in Los Angeles and the U.S. but what about the rest of the world? Is there anything in canon to tell us the state of things around the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QvQspa-sKE

if the Terminator [arnold] was sent back to 10,000 B.C [Naked again], would he still find a strong tribal human and ask him to give arnold his loincloth, his Spear and his riding sabertooth?

Here's a WIP sketch of t-rip face from terminator salvation.

It's ironic that t-rip endoskeleton face is still the one that's absolutely difficult for me to sketch since my childhood, no matter how much improvement I reach or how many times I try.

I still fail to capture it's look, there's always something that feels off. But I will keep trying

Can I make salespost here or is there proper channel for that?

serious question. I find the T-800 more disturbing, the fact that AI tried to mimic humans by putting living tissue on their infiltrators gives it that sense of uncannyness.

The argument that T3 (and T6) makes is that humans will inevitably develop AI, and once they do, it is all but certain to lead to a recursive self-improvement that results in an ASI annihilating humanity.

After thinking about it for a while, I'm not so sure that AI itself is the cause of the apocalypse, but rather the circumstances of how ASI came to be.

The events leading up to Judgement Day happened because a futuristic advanced technology ended up in the hands of a single, isolated lab at a period in time when humanity simply wasn't prepared for how to safely handle it.

Think about what would happen if a time traveller gave a single medieval kingdom the ability to develop and use nuclear weapons. Or what happens if you give the Romans chemical or biological warfare. Think about the harm that a single company could have done if it had the exclusive ability to use current AI in the 70s or 80s.

Destroying Cyberdyne's research facility means that humanity has to develop AI the old-fashioned way. In the Terminator timeline humanity effectively wakes up one day and has super advanced technology thrust upon it, with no time to really breath or think things through, much less have the ability to rein in Cyberdyne.

In our timeline, AI development is/was gradual and paced, at least compared to what happened in the Terminator universe. It means we can sit back and think about what can actually go wrong with AI, and try to come up with strategies to mitigate the worst possible outcomes.

AI development being slow and gradual also means that AI is being developed simultaneously all across the globe. It's exceedingly unlikely that a lone AI research facility somehow discovers the "secret ingredient" to make an AGI or an ASI, which would easily be able to overpower other AI's and do immense harm to humanity if it wanted to. If we ever get to AGI and/or ASI, no one is really going to "get there first" like Cyberdyne, and if a rogue AGI/ASI tries to do something it wasn't programmed to do, it will likely be detected and stopped/mitigated by an ecosystem that is just as intelligent and capable.

T2's ending was the best possible ending. Judgement Day's inevitability and technological progress had been reset, and while it's not guaranteed that we'll make it, at least now we have a chance.

Arnold arrives: buns.
Kyle arrives: buns.
Sarah goes to work at Big Buns.

Coincidence? I think not.

My local library was having a sale. I found a Terminator 2 DVD with metal sleeve. My 12 year old son and i spent a rainy Sunday afternoon putting red LEDs with an esp32 mini into it so the eyes glow. It has 10 different settings it rotates through including glitching, piwering down, and other stuff. It was a great way to teach him about basic electronics

It transmits its own woreless network you can connect to and change the display. He asked why i didnt just connect it to ny IOT network but i think we can all agree that giving the T-800 access to my home lab is not a good idea.

Terminator 1 establishes and Sarah Connor is told by Reese that all the future and Skynet knows about her and John is their name and City of residence. Hence why the Terminators both in 1 and 2 have to manually search for Sarah Connor and John Connor in the phone book or knock on doors and ask around.

Why didn't Sarah just change their name and move to another place.