Terminator Genisys: 10 Things That Would Have Happened Afterwards
8. Young Kyle Reese Forgets The Message In About A Week
For all their careful planning, for all their surgical execution, the one thing neither Connor, Reese, or the Guardian factored into the equation was the attention span of the pre-teen American male.
Entrusting the fate of humanity into the memory of some kid - whereby he has to repeat the same message to himself over and over to create a loop that defies the fabric of reality - might seem like a totally watertight plan/plot, but let's just unpack this a bit.
Having to remember one weird sentence given to you be an oddly-familiar but definitely creepy total stranger, vs the news his parents are going to give him about the Genisys preorder being cancelled. Kyle Reese is, like, what, 9 here? He's just about to find out that the must-have shiny new tech item his parents got him months ago has been snatched away mere minutes before it was supposed to go online.
I'm not sure if you've ever had to break news to a 9 year old about the destruction of a much-loved material possession, but once every door in the house has been slammed all he'll remember is "something about Jenny's sis and a sky jet, whatever, god I hate you all".