With The Sarah Connor Chronicle's pilot set in 1999 and two years after the events of Terminator 2, it forces T2 to have taken place in 1997 instead of 1995. And the date of judgment day in T2 has to get bumped two years as well, from August 29, 1997 to August 29, 1999.
The pilot opens with Sarah having a nightmare on the morning of August 24, 1999, but wouldn't that have been way cooler if it had been five days later — on August 29? Even if she believed they'd stopped judgment day, there was no way of knowing for sure until that day came and went without the world blowing up. So what a perfect morning it would have been for Sarah to have a nightmare about John's death and the end of the world. But instead, she has that dream 5 days beforehand. Oh what a missed opportunity.
With the way this show had trouble with dates, I wonder if the story was actually supposed to kick off on the former judgment day and they just screwed it up?
The pilot opens with Sarah having a nightmare on the morning of August 24, 1999, but wouldn't that have been way cooler if it had been five days later — on August 29? Even if she believed they'd stopped judgment day, there was no way of knowing for sure until that day came and went without the world blowing up. So what a perfect morning it would have been for Sarah to have a nightmare about John's death and the end of the world. But instead, she has that dream 5 days beforehand. Oh what a missed opportunity.
With the way this show had trouble with dates, I wonder if the story was actually supposed to kick off on the former judgment day and they just screwed it up?
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T2 takes place in (late) 1994. Judgment Day, according to T2, is in 1997. I thought the show took place in 1999 (pilot), two years after the supposed J Day Uncle Bob gave and the Connors are simply living with the ghost of it supposedly never happening due to their efforts in T2...
It's been awhile since Ive watched the first season and I could have sworn the show was true to T1/T2 timeline
Edited at 2009-10-04 08:20 pm (UTC)
But they're certainly not true to the T1 timeline. John turning 16 in Nov 2007 means he would've turned 16 in Nov 1999. That makes him born in Nov 1983 and conceived in Feb 1983. If Sarah was 33 in 1999, then she was only 17 when she met in 1983. If we're generous and say she was 33 going on 34 in 1999, then she could be 17 going on 18 in 1983 and could be a senior in high school. But in T1, she was already in college. So the TSCC dates do mess things up a bit, at least for T1.
Edited at 2009-10-04 08:58 pm (UTC)
Yeah, T1/T2-John was conceived in May '84 and born Feb 1985; Sarah was 19 in T1. So, their ages in T2 would be John: 9 going on 10, Sarah: 29. Sarah would have been 32 for '97 J Day and 34 for the beginning of TSCC.
Pretty much anything Terminator since T2 was a disaster for those that were interested in timelines, ages, and dates matching up. T1 and T2 make sense (some would argue, tho) with dates and ages. I think messing up ages is the easiest since these are never explicit in the first two films and you only catch the ages by reading the scripts and notice shots of dates on computers in T2.
Nevertheless, I guess I subscribe to TSCC being more timeline-conscious with T2 and John is referring to J Day in '97 when he says "it's been almost two years."
Perhaps they were in hiding after '94, but still active as 'terrorist' to some degree due to Sarah's probable paranoia. I guess after August '97, she might have given it a try at an average existence --which didn't last long, of course.
I don't recall anything in TSCC pointing to the 1997 judgement day date.
Wait, didn't Kyle tell her when it was in T1? She was screaming about it in Pescadero at Silberman.
Wait, didn't Kyle tell her when it was in T1? She was screaming about it in Pescadero at Silberman.
The J Day date is never mentioned in T1, but it is assumed that Kyle provided this information (off screen) during the time he protected Sarah since Sarah says something like, "I know the date: August 29th, 1997 ... I know it happens." in T2 before meeting the T-800 that, basically, explains to the audience what Sarah already knew about J Day and the details she wanted to know more of to stop it.
To me, they were more relaxed because J-day came and went and the world was still there and it's been two years since.
So to me, when Sarah broke out of Pescadero and those events... they had roughly 2 and a half months until the world was going to blow up.
In a few months [Miles Dyson] creates a revolutionary type of mircoprocessor.
In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned, Afterward, the fly with a perfect operational record.
The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Edited at 2009-10-04 10:57 pm (UTC)