I was still thinking in terms of the (oft-misinterpreted and highly questionable) interpretation of quantum mechanics in which every event creates an alternate universe for every possible outcome.
Ah. Gotcha. I don't think the show would ever get that deep into time jumping theoretics anyway.
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As for who caused the timeline of John jumping forward, I don't know, but...
I blame Derek for everything! Everything traces back to him killing Andy Goode. That created a new timeline that led to Jesse's future and I think it's been time travel/timeline madness ever since.
Jesse and Riley came from a future where John Connor was supposedly way too chummy with Cameron. they came from a future where Weaver was released from the box and sent a reply to John Connor that Cameron intercepted (from Jesse). And I'm going to assume Weaver came to the present from that future, as did Fisher.
Stuff all of those time travelers did led to more backward time jumps... There's been Kaliba goons that could be greys from the future and I'm sure the water cooler terminator is from the future (I don't think Kaliba built him or there would be more).
So with all of that backward time traveling and mucking around in 2007-2009, who knows how many more timelines we detoured into along the way and which one is directly responsible for the series of events that resulted in John Connor standing in a time bubble heading off to find Cameron in the future.
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And I still want to know why Kaliba sent human mooks to take out the Connors but kept its Terminator in reserve for taking out a little girl.
Yeah me too.
I think it's possible that Kaliba simply didn't know who the Connors were. Kaliba people/machine could have come from the same future John just jumped into where no one knows who John Connor is. But they knew Cameron was a machine, so, Kaliba probably though the Connors were a resistance fighter team from the future. They probably figured that by moving on them while they were scattered it would an easy sneak attack and they'd take them all out. And of course they thought they'd disable Cameron easily with the electrocution trap.
Kaliba must have only had the one terminator, so maybe they wanted to save it for the more important mission of stopping Weaver. That terminator seemed to be after both Savannah and Weaver and I'd guess it's next mission was to destroy (or maybe capture?) John Henry since the worm infiltration didn't work.
It still would have made more sense to send the machine to take out the Connors first. The attack on Weaver's house wasn't happening simultaneously anyway. But that's the best reasoning I can come up with for why they used humans for the Connors.
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Ah. Gotcha. I don't think the show would ever get that deep into time jumping theoretics anyway.
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As for who caused the timeline of John jumping forward, I don't know, but...
I blame Derek for everything! Everything traces back to him killing Andy Goode. That created a new timeline that led to Jesse's future and I think it's been time travel/timeline madness ever since.
Jesse and Riley came from a future where John Connor was supposedly way too chummy with Cameron. they came from a future where Weaver was released from the box and sent a reply to John Connor that Cameron intercepted (from Jesse). And I'm going to assume Weaver came to the present from that future, as did Fisher.
Stuff all of those time travelers did led to more backward time jumps... There's been Kaliba goons that could be greys from the future and I'm sure the water cooler terminator is from the future (I don't think Kaliba built him or there would be more).
So with all of that backward time traveling and mucking around in 2007-2009, who knows how many more timelines we detoured into along the way and which one is directly responsible for the series of events that resulted in John Connor standing in a time bubble heading off to find Cameron in the future.
--
And I still want to know why Kaliba sent human mooks to take out the Connors but kept its Terminator in reserve for taking out a little girl.
Yeah me too.
I think it's possible that Kaliba simply didn't know who the Connors were. Kaliba people/machine could have come from the same future John just jumped into where no one knows who John Connor is. But they knew Cameron was a machine, so, Kaliba probably though the Connors were a resistance fighter team from the future. They probably figured that by moving on them while they were scattered it would an easy sneak attack and they'd take them all out. And of course they thought they'd disable Cameron easily with the electrocution trap.
Kaliba must have only had the one terminator, so maybe they wanted to save it for the more important mission of stopping Weaver. That terminator seemed to be after both Savannah and Weaver and I'd guess it's next mission was to destroy (or maybe capture?) John Henry since the worm infiltration didn't work.
It still would have made more sense to send the machine to take out the Connors first. The attack on Weaver's house wasn't happening simultaneously anyway. But that's the best reasoning I can come up with for why they used humans for the Connors.