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Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off
"For sale: One slightly-used Terminator. Still works, minor attitude problems, get it cheap now!' Several sources are reporting that the Terminator franchise is set to be auctioned off just three weeks after another well known franchise, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was sold for $60 million. The present owner, Halcyon, has filed for chapter 11 after a dispute with a hedge fund that lent Halcyon the money to buy the rights to begin with. The auction will include rights to everything but the first two films.
...or do you have to buy the governator separately?
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Was about the only good thing from the Terminator Franchise int he last 10 years.....
And that is Sad....
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
You would get considerably more crossover cred with "I'd buy that for a dollar!"...
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Source: http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/joss-whedon-makes-bid-for-terminator/
(Crowd of people walking around in the front yard of a surburban house, looking at various bits of household junk)
Customer: (Looking around) Oh hey, what's this? It looks like some sort of oversized metal action figure!
Homeowner: That's a robot we've had down in the basement for a couple years now. Has an interesting history. Supposedly, it was thrown together by an unknown, but obviously brilliant computer scientist as a work project. Shame about what happened to him.
Supposedly after he'd finished building the thing, it got loose. There was this shotgun toting psycho of a woman who the police found raving and screaming about how it was trying to murder her and her kid. The police had a hell of a time taking her into custody; they've kept her sedated and locked up in a padded cell ever since.
Customer: Sounds like an amazing story! How much do you want for it?
Homeowner: (Slowly, pausing) $60 million.
Customer: WHAT?! But anyway...if anyone was even going to remotely consider paying that kind of money for it, it'd need to be able to do something beyond awesome! So give me a demonstration! How do I turn it on?
(Finds an old car battery and some jumper cables nearby, as other items for sale)
Hey, this'd work!
Homeowner: I'm not sure that's such a good idea...
Customer: It looks like just a kid's toy! Except a bit bigger of course. I'm sure it's perfectly safe!
(Applies cables to battery and T800, causing an explosion of sparks. The T800 rises up slowly from its' previous sitting position, its' eyes beginning to glow red)
Homeowner: ...
They only made 2.
WTF are you talking about?
It's not shown at the end of the second film, but it is explained right at the start of the first film if you pay attention.
It clearly says that the final battle would be fought here...tonight.
Now, if Skynet had killed Connor retroactively, that would have been the final battle of humans, but that didn't happen, so that's not what it was talking about.
No, Skynet only sends the terminator back because it lost. Human burst in, and it fired up the experimental time machine and it sends two terminators back. One to 1984 and one to 1995. (If you think about which was sent where, and what Skynet had to have know about each time, you'll realize it makes sense. Remember the first one managed to kill two Sarah Connors.)
The humans quickly send Reese back, and then they quickly reprogram the other Arnold that's laying around and send him back too.
Perhaps this was two different battles, or two different facilities, but anyway, the point is, the time machines were, essentially, the last stand before Skynet was defeated. (Logically, you don't want to let your enemies have access to your time machines, so they'd be almost as well protected as yourself.)
I suspect that Skynet figured out altering the past was just as big a threat to it as anything else, hence the time machine being used only when it about to be defeated.
If you're wondering about T3, that actually took place in a different future, after T2 moved judgment day. (Which means that Skynet was right about time travel being a threat to it, as the Skynet from the first two movies is essentially dead, or rather never existed.)
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