Never came to mind since they take place is the present and time travel isn't a constantly recurring topic... but yeah, they were great. On its own I don't think T3 was that bad, but of course it's light years behind 1 & 2.
And still, they didn't make any sense where time travel is concerned.
Mind you, I DO like the concept of "area swaps" between time periods. That's why the T2 book was sooooooo much better than any of the movies, due to its in-depth explanation of what the heck was going on. Basically, in traditional time travel stories, you are removing matter from the universe (present time) and combining it with other matter (in the past). Two things can't occupy the same space at the same time, even if one of those things is a lump of air. So whatever gets sent back through time is swapped with whatever happens to be there originally. That's why you see sphere-ish dents in the ground when the terminators appear--the concrete/sand/trailer/chain link fence has been transported to the future to replace their space. That's the only measure of logic that I've ever seen where time travel is concerned, so I gotta give The Terminator props on that one.
Thanks for the memory boot frontiersmantanis.
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