In Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Linda Hamilton plays a character called Sarah Connor...

In Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Linda Hamilton plays a character called Sarah Connor, who shares a name with a character from The Terminator (1984), also played by Linda Hamilton. This indicates that the two films take place in the same universe.

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Do they

What if all the Arnold movies are a part of a shared universe?

Arnie's character never woke from Recall.

Interesting thread

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>In Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Linda Hamilton Leslie Hamilton, Linda's twin sister, plays a waitress called Sarah Connor, who shares a name with a waitress from The Terminator (1984), also played by Linda Hamilton.

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It is. Even the ending is the same.

They do, in fact Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a direct sequel to The Terminator. The "2" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is meant to indicate this, although they neglected to include the word "The" in front of the word "Terminator" which kind of confuses matters, as it is not a sequel to a film simply titled "Terminator".

Terminator Genisys reset the timeline so technically neither is a sequel to anything.

Not only did he not wake, he was trapped in a nightmare where he roleplayed as an evil cyborg from the future.

but terminator isn't a trilogy

there's no arc in 3 that's resolved

No, the universes might be similar, but they are not the same. In The Terminator, Austrian actor Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an evil machine-killer from the future trying to kill the character Sarah Connor, while in Terminator 2: Judgement Day he plays a good machine-killer from a different future trying to help a character named Sarah Connor.

genisys is an alternate timeline, not a reset.

It can be assumed that Skynet was a second attempt by Collosus to pacify the human race.

Also ripped from The Outer Limits.
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not sure what's worse, this or joss whedon.

actually no, this is definitely worse since i enjoy the terminator, firefly is trash.

Our fiction is someone else's reality.

I've always enjoyed PKD, deep philosophical stories that are short and don't babble on endlessly.

I couldn't remember the name of the book first post, but VALIS was actually the first full PKD novel I ever read iirc, I might have read some of his shorts first in a compilation.

VALIS is the one about the aliens beaming the information into the character's mind much like his real life own experiences.

Wasn't there some popular literature examples of MADD magazine or The Simpsons predicting the 9-11 attacks?

There's a bunch of stuff on youtube about media predictions of 9/11 and about the mandela effect. It tends to revolve around CERN and or the Illuminatti being responsible.

I personally think its all more mundane, and just byproducts of our collective unconsciousness. Its easy to get caught in a loop of fear about "them" controlling everything, when its really just our own tail we're chasing.

But the idea that our fiction is actually a different timeline is pretty interesting. Especially considering our jumps in technology in some areas while other areas seem stuck in the 1920's.
Collosus couldn't subdue humanity, tried Skynet, failed, and finally moved on to a decentralized network, bringing us the internet and smart phones.

genisys doesn't exist

yup, and a supertramp album among many other examples.

Wrong. It is called Terminator 2 becuase they are 2 Terminators in it.

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