New Terminator from Cameron will ignore all but T1 and T2

[Morrus]

You guys know Facebook didn’t exist in the 1980s, right? By the time Facebook exists, Judgement Day (1997) already happened. No Facebook at any point in the Terminator universe. The world ends before social media is even a concept.

 

[Eltab]

Part of the canon is that Sarah Conner burned out all records of her existence. CCTV might work if the machines knew which face to look for.

In T1, Skynet had her name and sent the Terminator to find a phone book with ALL the Sarah Connors' locations listed, to kill ALL of them.
It just so happened that the human rescuer owned a photo so he knew which Sarah to seek out and protect.

The updated Terminator would know to search the present-day popular social media sites for "Sarah Connor" and build a target list from the search results.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You guys know Facebook didn’t exist in the 1980s, right? By the time Facebook exists, Judgement Day (1997) already happened. No Facebook at any point in the Terminator universe. The world ends before social media is even a concept.

As it is after T2, yes. But we don't know what will change via temporal meddling/paradox, etc. between T2 and this new movie. Iexpect Cameron to keep the timeline hard and fast, given his rejection of all subsequent Terminator products. But he could stil oil a George Lucas on us and mess things up.

 

[Morrus]

As it is after T2, yes. But we don't know what will change via temporal meddling/paradox, etc. between T2 and this new movie. Iexpect Cameron to keep the timeline hard and fast, given his rejection of all subsequent Terminator products. But he could stil oil a George Lucas on us and mess things up.

I hope it’s a period piece. 90s, maybe.

Though if Hamilton is in it, I guess they have to set it a similar number of years later. Unless they plan to digitally de-age her (which I hope they don’t). So it’ll be contemporary, either pre or post Judgement Day.

 

[Ovinomancer]

In T1, Skynet had her name and sent the Terminator to find a phone book with ALL the Sarah Connors' locations listed, to kill ALL of them.
It just so happened that the human rescuer owned a photo so he knew which Sarah to seek out and protect.

The updated Terminator would know to search the present-day popular social media sites for "Sarah Connor" and build a target list from the search results.

The same hyper paranoid Sarah Connor from T2 just up and decides that Facebook is okay?

 

[MarkB]

You guys know Facebook didn’t exist in the 1980s, right? By the time Facebook exists, Judgement Day (1997) already happened. No Facebook at any point in the Terminator universe. The world ends before social media is even a concept.

Also, I don't even have killer robots after me and I'm still paranoid enough about Facebook in terms of both account security and the general concept of posting one's entire life online that I only signed up to it last year, and still don't feel comfortable using it. Sarah Connor's social media footprint would be as close to non-existent as she could achieve.

 

[Morrus]

Also, I don't even have killer robots after me

That's what you think.

 

[MarkB]

That's what you think.

I'm not that spry. If I had killer robots after me, they'd have caught me by n- oh, excuse me, there's someone at the door.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

"Candygram."

 

[Eltab]

The same hyper paranoid Sarah Connor from T2 just up and decides that Facebook is okay?

Her son is a hacker and seems to resent her (at the beginning of the movie), so he might post something of her, just to prove that 'Mom can't tell me what to do'.
He will of course regret it later, but when will he have time to locate his original and every copy made by others to erase them?
(We do not know that the scene from 2010 discussing erasing HAL's memories is valid in the T-universe.)

There is also the (un)lucky break when some guy with delusions of Hugh Hefner-ness sees her pass by and decides "That's one cute chick. Watch me get her; she only thinks she's a tough cookie."