So I had a few extra minutes this evening, and after fishing around on the Googlewebs came up with this:
1959 OR May 15, 1964 – May 11, 1965: Sarah Connor is born. (According to the script for The Terminator, Sarah is 19 years old. The 1959 date comes from Sarah's headstone in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.)
May 12, 1984: Sarah Connor is rescued from termination by Kyle Reese, a soldier in the human resistance sent back in time by John Connor, Sarah's then-unborn son.
May 13, 1984: John Connor is conceived.
May 14, 1984: Kyle Reese dies.
Oct. 26, 1984: The Terminator is released in theaters
Feb. 28, 1985: John Connor is born.
July 3, 1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day is released in theaters
1995: A reprogrammed T-800 goes back in time to rescue John Connor, age 10, from the T-1000
August 29, 1997: The original date for "Judgment Day": when Skynet becomes aware and launches its nuclear weapons at Russia, effecting a global holocaust.
1997: Sarah Connor dies from cancer. (From Terminator 3.)
July 2, 2003: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is released in theaters
July 24, 2004: A reprogrammed T-850 goes back in time to rescue John Connor, and Katherine Brewster, who becomes John's wife after Skynet precipitates a global holocaust. This is now the current date for "Judgment Day." (Voiceover by Connor himself indicates that John was 13 when the T-800 first rescued him in Terminator 2 -1995-, and this film takes place 10 years later, but his original birthdate suggest he was supposed to only be 20 in T3.)
May 21, 2009: Terminator Salvation is released in theaters
2018: John Connor, age 33 per the dates in the original two films, meets Kyle Reese for the first time. The T-800 Terminator model is used by Skynet for the first time to battle Connor himself.
2029: John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to rescue his mother, Sarah Connor, from assassination by a T-800 model terminator. Reese describes the T-800 model as "new" during this time in Terminator 1. wtf?!
2032: The T-850 kills John Connor. From Terminator 3, this T-850 is reprogrammed and sent back in time by Kate Connor (formerly Brewster) to protect herself and John Connor.
The events of the original Terminator movie took place between May 12 and May 14, 1984. In that film, Judgment Day was Aug. 29, 1997, 13 years in the future. The war against the machines was near an end in the year 2029, 45 years in the future, when Skynet sends the first T-800 back to the past to hunt Sarah Connor. That's also when the adult John Connor sends Kyle Reese after him to rescue Sarah—and to become John's father.
While Reese's age was never disclosed, according to the script for the film, Sarah Connor was 19 years old at the time, placing her date of birth between May 15, 1964, and May 11, 1965. But Sarah's headstone in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines said that she was born in 1959, making her 25 during the events of the first film. Confused yet?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, but its events take place in 1995, although the film does not directly specify the day or year. A police monitor shown in the film confirms that John Connor was born Feb. 28, 1985, which makes him 10 years old in the film.
While this detail would otherwise be unimportant, in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, John Connor explains in a voice-over that a T-800 rescued him and his mother from assassination when he was 13. The events of Terminator 3 occur on July 24, 2004, which makes Connor 20 years old and therefore age-appropriate from the point of view of the first film's timeline but would place the events of Terminator 2 in the year 1997 -original year Skynet attacks- . An error or a revision? I say error.
Terminator 3 now states that Judgment Day was merely postponed and that the T-850 Terminator was sent back in time to help John and Kate Brewster survive rather than stop the inevitable nuclear holocaust. This means that Judgment Day occurs on July 24, 2004.
In addition, Terminator 3 depicts Sarah Connor's headstone, with her birth in 1959 and her death in 1997. This means that John's mother probably contracted leukemia before the events in Terminator 2 (if we believe they took place in 1995) and died two years after them: John says explicitly that she was diagnosed three years before she succumbed.
In the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we first meet a 15-year-old John Connor and an adult Sarah Connor in the year 1999(?!), which we are led to believe is only a couple of years after the events of T2. But the producers of the fourth movie say they don't view the events of the TV show as canon for the purposes of the film franchise
Thankfully, Terminator Salvation manages to stick mostly to the timeline established in the first two films. In 2018, John Connor is 33, and it will be 11 years before he sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother. Kyle is still an adolescent, although it seems like he'll be age-appropriate by the time the events of the first film take place.
Release Dates
The theatrical release dates of all of the films since the original Terminator have also caused their share of problems for viewers. Terminator 2 was released in 1991, and the present date was never specified on screen, which made the heavy thinkers in the audience dizzy at the prospect of a 13-year-old kid playing 10 in a film that was set nine or 10 years later but released only seven years after the original. >that's what always had me<
Terminator 3 was released in July 2003, a year before the events in the film take place, eight after the events in the previous film and 12 after the release of T2. Terminator Salvation is being released on May 21, 2009, nine years before the events in it take place and six after T3 was released.
Then there's the multiple paradoxes that occur in the series during each adventure. The first film is pretty straightforward: Kyle comes back to 1984, saves Sarah from the Terminator, makes a baby and fulfills his destiny.
According to the plot of Terminator 2, Cyberdyne Systems - the owner of the factory where Sarah kills the original Terminato - finds the arm and CPU of the deactivated cyborg, providing the foundations for technology that leads to the development of Skynet. But when Sarah, John and the second T-800 destroy the remains of the original Terminator and vaporize Cyberdyne, that should not only logically annihilate all Terminator-related technology, but also erase the very existence of John Connor.
Did John Connor and Skynet come into existence directly as a result of the events in the first Terminator? Or was John's birth, and the advent of Terminator technology, predestined regardless of whether the Terminator and Kyle Reese went back in time?
All along, we see that the time incursions affect the events of the later movies, and not always in intended ways. The events of the first movie, far from preventing Judgment Day, actually facilitate it through the Terminator's leftover parts. Another important question: Was John Connor trained to be a great military leader because of the strength of his character or because Kyle Reese told Sarah Connor that he would become the leader of the resistance? From what we know, experienced a normal childhood with his mother around (as suggested in a dream from Sarah in Terminator 2) and developed leadership qualities later.
The second movie manages to delay Judgment Day, but it doesn't prevent it. Someone within Terminator 3-era Cyberdyne retained data from the late Miles Dyson's work from Terminator 2, though there is no clear explanation why Skynet continues to develop. We do learn from the T-850 that Judgment Day is "inevitable": So much for "No fate but what we make."
The events of T2 also delay John's acquisition of key information: John Connor and Kate Brewster don't pursue their adolescent romantic relationship as they might have because John takes off and lives "off the grid." Causing the events in T3 and as a result, John doesn't learn that Kate's father is instrumental in the activation of Skynet until it's too late to stop it.
Terminator: Salvation doesn't play at all with the time continuum.
Ultimately, great movies that, in my household, have been enjoyed by 4 generations of Midel boys!
ref: scifiwire.com
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