T.T.T

If you are wondering what the title means, then wait no long, go ahead and read to find out the answer. It means Time Traveling Terminator. Before you go any further in this post you need to know and understand who The Terminator is, and why is he trying to kill Sarah Connor!!!

To sum it all up, in the future, the world is taken over by Skynet which controls all the machines and uses them to destroy anything and everything that comes in their way. There is human resistance that fights back the machines to regain control, under the leadership of John Connor, son of the aforementioned, Sarah Connor. Somehow John Connor is the key to winning the war against machines and Skynet realizes it and sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor (SC) before she can even conceive John Connor (JC), the chosen one.

There are too many loop holes to the plot but let us not dwell into those. The one I am interested in, is the level of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Skynet uses in trying to eliminate the threat. Since finding JC is out of question, Skynet does the only sane thing any AI device would do, send a terminator back in time. Now I have a problem with that.

If Skynet can send someone back in time, why would it just send one termiantor, and that too to kill JC's mother SC. With all the machines at it's disposal it could have sent a small platoon of terminators increasing its chances of succeeding. Also, when the first terminator failed to kill SC why would it send the next terminator to a later time in SC's life. If the terminator could not kill SC given the time and technology, what made it think that the second terminator will be any successful in a later time when it has to deal with both SC and JC and advanced time and technology. I have started to think that Skynet's AI has a very high learning curve as the only logical option would be to send the terminator further back in time which would give him a technological advantage, to kill SC's parents before they can conceive her. Even better send a terminator even further back in time to kill the ancestral male and female who are responsible for the lineage that will ultimately result in the birth of SC and thus, JC.

Here is the mother of all ideas, send every machine/terminator to post Cretaceous period, identify the dwellings of primates and terminate ever primate that tries to leave the trees to set its foot on the ground thus removing any scope for millions of years of evolution of mankind. I bet your AI can't come up with an idea like that in a million years Skynet!!