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Posted on 02/23/2013 7:13:20 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: al_c
The Terminator movies created a time loop. Where did Terminator/Skynet technology come from? It came from study of the first Terminator sent back in time. Miles Dyson didn't invent the technology so much as he reverse engineered the technology from the Terminator to create Skynet.
There was a (bad) movie called “Time Rider” where a motorcycle racer gets accidentally sent back in time to cowboy days - where he romances a woman and gives her the medallion his grandmother gave him as a child. That woman ends up being his own grandmother (he is his own grandpa).
Now where did the medallion come from? Nobody ever created it, the earliest it entered the timestream was when he was sent back in time on his motorcycle; and the latest it was in the timestream was right before he was sent back. The movie was very forgettable, but the paradox of the medallion stuck with me and I was reminded of it when watching Terminator II.
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02/27/2013 8:21:17 AM PST
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: allmendream
Ack ... I forgot about the hand thing.
I remember Time Rider! So lame.
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02/27/2013 8:37:43 AM PST
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al_c
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To: al_c
Not just the hand - but some chips from inside the head! That is where Skynet technology came from! No human invented it - they reverse engineered it from something sent back in time - to create the computer that sent it back in time!
Yes, Time Rider was SO lame - but the paradox of the medallion was exactly like Skynet technology - it was a time paradox that nobody ever created!
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02/27/2013 8:46:31 AM PST
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: al_c
Another one I just thought of - Dr. Who. (SPOILER ALERT)
Amy Pond names her daughter Melody Pond, after her best friend growing up also named Melody. Melody Pond becomes the timelord River Song (Pond = river; Melody = song). River Song goes back in time to grow up beside her own mother and IS her best friend Melody. She was named after HERSELF. Where did the name “Melody” come from? She was named Melody because she went back in time and inspired her mother to name her Melody.
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02/27/2013 9:47:15 AM PST
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: fieldmarshaldj
The whole Ewok thing was ridiculous, and I was a bit annoyed and puzzled by it as a 9-year old in the theater. Lucas was getting weird and punch-drunk by the end of the trilogy, anyhow, and the Ewoks were a symptom of it. He needed a real director to reign in his excesses (like he had in ESB with Irvin Kershner).
BTW, I recall reading that the Ewoks were supposed to represent the Viet Cong defeating those oppressive American capitalist-fascist pigs. Who knew bloodthirsty Commie totalitarian devils were so cute and loveable ?
Yep, Lucas intended to parallel Vietnam by having the primitive (read Vietcong) Ewoks defeat a more "technologically advanced" enemy in the Empire...a metaphor for us. Oh, he also initially based the Emperor on Nixon. Just shows you his politics are about as good as his ability to write romantic dialogue.
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