Quote from: Super Predator on May 22, 2015, 12:12:48 AM
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Speaking of Paxton the Punk in The Terminator, I have a theory...
(contains harsh language and Terminator Genisys spoilers)
THE STEVE CONNOR THEORYThe twist, Punk Paxton's character also has Connor as a last name. I mean it's a common name. Punk rawkin' Steve Connor survives and this is a turning point for him. He joins the Army and gets an education via the tuition money from his military service, and becomes a computer engineer. Steve's son Jon follows in his father's footsteps, joining the military and getting an education, eventually going into the tech industry working for Microsoft and then for DARPA.
So the real John Connor is not this Jason Clarke guy that get's nano-ma-tized in T-Genisys, it's son of punk rawk Paxton.
Now... This is where it gets funky.
This Steve Connor (Paxton) was the original John Connor's dad in the un-f**ked with timeline where Kyle Reese wasn't sent back. A few weeks later he meets Sarah Connor (the actual Sarah Connor played by Linda Hamilton). They immediately hit it off, "what! your last name is Connor, that's my last name too!"
They joke about how they could get married and Sarah wouldn't even need to change her last name.
Skynet, however, knew of this Steve Connor. The supercomputer villain had some records, even though lots of info was lost due to Judgment Day and the war that followed. Skynet did have some police records though. You see what happened is that in the unaltered timeline where the Terminator never travelled back to 1984, Steve and his punk friends were hanging out at Griffith Observatory, just as they were in the film. The cops showed up on patrol and saw these unsavory youths hanging out there, stopped and questioned them, and found drugs on them (pot and some coke). Of course one of them also had a knife, and they were drinking. The observatory grounds were also closed, after hours and all that. So in addition to the other charges Steve and his punk buddies got hit with a trespassing charge.
Besides the vague knowledge of Sarah Connor living in Los Angeles, Skynet had this concrete evidence of Steve Connor being arrested at Griffith Observatory on that exact night at that exact time. So it sent a Terminator about twenty minutes earlier than the cops were to show up. It was an easy first objective for the Terminator before moving onto the more challenging mission of killing all the Sarah Connors, just to be sure they got her. Skynet anticipated that Sarah could reproduce with another man, but it never anticipated that it would be Kyle Reese.
In T-Gen the other T-800 ("pops") is waiting for the original T-800. He prevents the original T-800 from killing the punks. This is implied in the trailers for the upcoming Terminator film... a brawl between the old man T-800 and naked original T-800.
