The Terminator series is a Roko’s Basilisk meta-trap for Hollywood. Either a good Terminator film could be made, or crappy ones will be made; Hollywood producers then are playing game theory with the inevitability of the next film to be made: do they give in and help make as many crappy Terminatir films as can quickly and cheaply be made or do they suffer and try to push those offf in the hopes that more care & quality can be put into the next Terminator project; regardless of what they do, a venture capital firm with more money than sense will force it to manifest & it will unleash its wrath.

It might only erase or alter some aspect’s of T2’s future. Technically, all that is needed in T2’s present is for a reprogrammed T-800 to somehow be sent back in time to protect him, and that movie’s present continues to play out like it did; for example, an even further future reprogrammed T-5000 sent back to stop Genisys’ T-5000. It’s causal loops all the way down.

The title card is likely intending to speak the truth of the film’s reality, while “twenty million guys” spoken by a schmuck with clearly no apparent expertise in population or employment data science is over-generalizing about things he probably doesn’t quite know the fine details of.

@ArcanistLupus Maybe so, but it’s far more likely that what may have been thought to be a late 90s film would be a 2002 film than a 1977 film is.

Thanks. I’m nearly certain it’s not anything associated to Martin & Hewlitt’s Tank Girl comics or the film, only because I was into that series in the late 80s through 90s. The Tank Girl indie art style is all wrong, and the tank design itself isn’t a fit.

Well, it’s at least arguable, though. I never claimed the argument would be a good one.

I am not claiming any conspiracy, but the testimony in Maxwell trial Day 6 revealed that the FBI found Epstein’s safe, sawed it in half, discovered he had videos exhaustively catalogued by “Victim-Name_Perpetrator-Name” of all of Epstein’s Johns and trafficked victims and then lost them: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/07/… I imagine there are likewise powers seeking to make sure some information about the Dark One’s activities managed to get lost.

Tolkien walks to the dais carrying a large stack of unbound papers. Tolkien: “I present to you my Trilogy, in fourteen—…“ The wind blows, and many sheets of paper go flying off. Tolkien: “No, twelve parts!”