Eric wrote:Zeus wrote:Eric wrote:Probably the worst finale for a series that's about to be canceled can have.
I disagree. It ended completely. Ignoring the storyline of movie #3, the show has completely ended which ain't a bad thing if you're talking about something never coming back
What are you talking about? They rewrote history, nobody ever heard of John Connor, Kyle Rease was the leader of the resistance, it does NOT tie into any of the Terminator mythos, did you actually watch the end of the episode? O_o
Yeah you can view it as "Lawl, he jumped to the future and became their leader! AWESOME" but the freakin mythos goes that John Connor formed the resistance and freed humans AFTER Judgement Day, clearly the future John jumped to there is already a resistance in action. Hell Kyle and Derek repeatedly said that the person who freed them was John Connor, now that's no longer the case.
It was a terrible finale.
Since Eric didn't seem to care...SPOILER ALERT
No man. The entire mythos was that John Conner was the leader of the resistance and was starting to make Skynet sweat. Hence the decision to send Ahnold back in the first. Nowhere, aside maybe from the comics but I never read them, did they ever say "the resistance didn't exist before Conner came around" just that what he had done had brought hope to mankind. He started freeing the human slaves and shit. But that doesn't mean there wasn't pockets of resistance before. Kyle could easily have been the leader of that particular pocket of resistance but there could have been even tons of slaves and it could very easily be John who bands humans altogether later for a unified resistance.
And watch the end of the ep again (I just did). There's no mention of a unified resistance. The only thing they allude to is that Kyle is well known and that there is some form of resistance based on the fact that there's uniforms and a pecking order. You're filling in the blanks there but there's no evidence in that ep to suggest any form of unified resistance. And if you're talking about Kyle and Derek mentioned that they freed him, who's to say that they weren't captured after the point when John jumped into the future which forced him to lead the resistance and take it further than it had ever been before and then freed them? (don't forget the flashbacks with Derek as a slave; maybe John saved him?)
The point I'm trying to make is, there's nothing in the ep that contradicts anything from the first 2 movies. You could just as easily jump to conclusions that make it fit perfect as you did with conclusions that do not fit at all. There was some stuff in the show I liked and think it fits well if you ignore film #3 (I like how Shirley Manson's character ended up being the liquid Terminator aboard the Jimmy Carter that was helping them). We'll see how movie #4 messes with it but there was a lot to like about the show after its very rough beginnings
