This article contains spoilers forTerminator Zero.
The futures not set, says John Connor inTerminator 2: Judgement Day, quoting his mother Sarah.
Theres no fate but what we make for ourselves.
That includes the most recent entry, theNetflixanimeTerminator Zero.
Zerotakes place in two timelines.
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Yes, thats a lot.
The point in time youre traveling to and the point youre coming from are different timelines.
Honestly, thats not hard to understand for most people watchingTerminator Zero.
But thats new information for people within theTerminatoruniverse.
The originalJames Cameronmovie from 1984is based on the idea that time is a more or less closed loop.
A Self-Made Fate
In short, the time travel inTerminatoris a mess.
Those are all separate universes, not flowing in a straight line from the first two Cameron movies.
Fittingly enough,Terminator Zeropractices what it preaches by limiting the nods to other films.
Do we get a metallic thumbs up and a robot foot smashing a human skull?
WillTerminator Zeros timeline and new characters end up just as messy as the stuff from other Terminator entries?
Its a fate thatZeromade for itself.
Terminator Zero is now streaming on Netflix.
