Time travel narratives are difficult to follow at the best of times, and with Terminator it's especially complex. If you thought that X-Men: Days Of Future Past's attempts to untangle the complicated continuity of that franchise was exhausting, you ain't seen nothing yet. The original film already toyed with the Grandfather Paradox - John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time, Reese knocks up Connor's mother Sarah, which means Reese is his dad, so he wouldn't exist if he'd never sent him back in time etc etc - but beyond that, the constant time-travel shenanigans have made things hella confusing. Allegedly, Terminator: Genisys will be a feature-long continuity and franchise reboot in he same way that Days Of Future Past was. It will use the time travel conceit to reset everything so that Paramount have a shiny new franchise on their hands, without having to worry about several decades of baggage and story that makes about as much sense as, well, Arnold Schwarzenegger being governor of California for multiple terms. Rise Of The Machines and Salvation only messed things up all the more, so Genisys is going to have a job coalescing all these conflicting timelines into one that audiences actually wanna watch.
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