Terminator begins with Skynet sending Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger’s T-800 to track down Sarah Connor in 1984, which is unclear why exactly he decides to go that year. The killer cyborg is looking for Sarah Connor because she is the mother of John Connor, who played a role in defeating Skaynet in 2029.
Director James Cameron kicks off the Terminator franchise between a T-800 sent from 2029 by Skynet and Sarah Connor in 1984 Los Angeles. And after the huge box office success of The Terminator, James Cameron followed up with Terminator 2:
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Judgment Day, which is more about the universe and its lore. John Connor is a child here, and Schwarzenegger’s T-800 is sent to defend him against the more ferocious T-1000 (Robert Patrick). Terminator 2 ends the story with Sarah Connor being able to successfully destroy Skynet – although the fact that she wasn’t Skynet’s enemy may explain why the T-800 knew it had to go to 1984, but not exactly how. find her.
The T-800 is able to find Sarah Connor in 1984 thanks to the amount of information Skynet had about her in 2029. Skynet’s real target was John Connor,
and Sarah didn’t participate in the 2029 resistance. As Kyle Reese explains in The Terminator, most records from the past were also destroyed during Judgment Day, . Skynet who knew about John Conor is that his mother’s name was Sarah Connor and that she lived in Los Angeles in 1984. It’s even clearly stated in the original Terminator movie that the T-800 doesn’t really know who Sarah Connor is, we see it looking up the name “Sarah Connor” in the phone book and then it starts systematically killing everyone named Sarah Connor.
How The Terminator Managed To Find And Kill John Connor In Guatemala
In The Terminator, the T-800 fails in its mission to kill Sarah Connor and never misses an opportunity to kill John Connor in 1998 Terminator: John and Sarah Connor begin Terminator: Dark Fate where they rest on a beach in Guatemala when a T-800 (also played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) suddenly appears and kills John Connor. The T-800 is too late because the events of Terminator 2 have already happened, which means that Skynet has been destroyed and Doomsday has been averted. Considering the problems the T-800 had in finding Sarah Connor in 1984, it seems a little strange that it could so easily find John Connor from Terminator: Dark Fate and plus in such a remote location.
The answer to this question is in Terminator: Dark Fate. As it turns out, the T-800 who kills John Connor gains a conscience after his mission and then settles down to start a family, calling himself Carl. Carl is especially sensitive when a cyborg is sent from the future and tells Sarah Connor their exact location with a “For John” message so she can retaliate by revealing that Skynet sent several terminators. But Terminator 2 is already showing, claiming that in order to kill Sarah Connor, Skynet sent one assassin and another to kill John Connor in 1995.
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It may already be simply that Carl was one of the many cyborgs who hunted John Connor, and who was looking for him for a long time. With unlimited time and resources, and possibly Sarah Connor letting her guard down, the T-800is bound to find John Connor eventually. In the same way, perhaps in The Terminator, the T-800 was sent to 1984, namely as part of a larger group of T-800s sent in different time frames to destroy John Connor, in the hope that this would succeed.
