An animated explanation of the 'Terminator' franchise in 3 minutes
Time travel is complicated.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that thinking about the Terminator series can make your head hurt after a while. There's a lot to unpack.
In the future, a super-intelligent computer system wages genocidal war against all mankind, and sends a killer robot back to 1984 to prevent humanity's last hope from ever being born. So the human resistance leader sends back a soldier to stop the robot. In the process, this soldier becomes the father of the very man who sent him back in time in the first place.
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And that's just the first of five movies. We haven't even gotten into alternate timelines or the different models of murderbots yet.
Once again, our ongoing series Too Long; Didn't Watch is here to break down these convoluted series in a short, easily digestible video.
You can thank us later. Or... maybe earlier? Time travel is complicated.
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