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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3994799" data-attributes="member: 15651">Ahh, the fun of time travel. T1: Skynet sends back a Terminator to kill Sarah Connor.  At this point the future John Connor is aware that Reese is his father and a Terminator sent back kills Reese.  As you said, future John sends Reese back to complete history.  What we do not know at that point is what Skynet knows.  If John is aware of history, then by implication Skynet should also be aware that it sent back a T-100 that failed in its mission, but its destruction provided material that allowed Dyson to create Skynet, therefore it did not send back the T-100 to kill Sarah Connor, but instead to fail and provide the technology needed to be created and preserve history.T2 & T3: As you said, these movies opens up a whole new mess as they apparently actually change the future, rather than just preserving it.  If that is the case, then the future rebels after T2 should be the ones to send someone back in time to before 1984 to kill Sarah Connor.  If they succeed in doing so, then there will be no need for Skynet to send a Terminator back in time to 1984 thereby providing material for Dyson to create Skynet.</blockquote>