All of the modern films keep bringing the Terminator forward in time, which often ends up being lame. I think we strip away most of the future nonsense. Skynet has decided the Connors bloodline in 1984 is too powerful, so they send a Terminator back to 1884 to try and cut it off at an earlier date. The Terminator has to fight cowboys in the American West.
But due to the Butterfly Effect, going back in time that far might prevent Skynet from happening as well.
I let the guys from red letter media write the script and then let Eli Roth direct it.
We find out early on that the original John Connor was never the son of Sarah Connor, but just some random guy who rose to the challenge and became the leader of the human resistance. Knowing that the machines had developed time travel, he adopted the name and history of some random dead guy and leaked this to the machines, knowing they would go back and try to kill them. He sent Kyle back to protect them, with the plan of conceiving John Connor and raising him up as an even better leader.
Cut back to the future war, and now there are two John Connors.
Destroy it and his legacy?
Why?
Because its the industry standard. Don’t question it.
Hand it to a bunch of Japanese light novel authors and see what trashy kawaii/Isekai/op-mc stories result. That, or put it into the public domain and see the popularity of the franchise explode.
I think in reality I would milk it for personal gain, but in this hypothetical thought experiment I’d also like to imagine putting it into public domain.
Yes we would certainly see a lot of trash, but I’d imagine that it would also lead to a lot of creativity. We really are hampered by the insanely long copyright durations.
Sherlock Holmes for example has been part of general culture for a long time, and yet the last novel only became public domain 2023. Considering how much the world changed between now and 1927 (when it was published) it really doesn’t make sense. And the argument for copyright that invention needs to pay also falls flat, when it extends so long even after the authors death.
