TERMINATOR ZERO Ending Explained

[@BrainPilot]

What did you think of Terminator Zero? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

[@arzqh]

shockingly pretty incredible, i would like to see more🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@taykforeal]

It was good 🔥😔

[@CpnGroovy]

Very good!

[@MetalGear_Markie]

Better than I thought im already watching thru it again 😎👍

[@lordhumungus2437]

Needed a lot more gunplay. Too many scenes of repeated dialogue. Those square headed droids reminded me of lunchable toys

[@evansonhakeem]

You can tell the show runners are hardcore Terminator fans because they dropped the show on August 29 which canonically is Judgement Day!

[@demo3456]

HAHAHA

[@jonathanj.3695]

They even had several visual references and quotes from the original 1980s Teminator movie, Terminator 2, and Terminator Salvation.

[@DemonSlayer526]

​@@jonathanj.3695si saben que japon y estados unidos tienen Diferentes rotaciones horarias, por lo que esto no contradice nada

[@ClaretRATA]

Visual and sound... It's so cool ​@@jonathanj.3695

[@Leah_Newton]

😂 so many references too. The animation did it good. How the old lady explained the time travelling also fixed the paradox created by the franchise. If they ever make Terminator 8, they can actually use the time travelling explanation from the old lady and fix the continuation problem and all those variations. I am rewatching it in English, I wonder if they have Arnold voice acting that one liner like: "I'll be back!" Or something else from the movies. 😂

[@Headshooter309]

The fact Malcom brings up the fact that the resistance and sky net go at time travel so many times that it becomes its own war is crazy. Also this makes every terminator movie semi cannon with its multiverse theory on time travel.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Mr. Perfect Cell was right about Multiverse Theory.

[@miming3679]

​@@TheWarmachine375unexpected dbz abridged reference

[@ArlindoBuriti]

@@Headshooter309 that was awesome, but that is in his timeline were the war still going in 2040's

[@tristanbackup2536]

​@@ArlindoBuriti He's from the OG, the war against Skynet didn't stop in 2029, that was the first major offensive done by John in the OG timeline. It's also explained in the RPG board game, the war went well into the 2040s against Skynet 2.0

[@leeroyloke8415]

So, they referenced the MCU's multiverse idea?

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Time travel in this is better explained than in Genisys and Dark Fate.

[@journeysands2622]

Please explain

[@RedBattalion9000]

That elder woman might be time traveler also, and explain us complex matter of time traveling.

[@tristanbackup2536]

Already knew before she mentioned it. I think the whoever wrote the script for this show took notes from my old forum debate post how TDEs work. They ran with that.

[@peterlenham3180]

​​​​@@tristanbackup2536The Sarah Conner Chronicles hinted at it, and even Genisys. The problem with that film, is it didnt explain it properly, as that was most likely left for future sequels, which ultimately didnt come to fruition. Dark Fate also had a new timeline, with Legion instead of Skynet.

[@jonathankristian2466]

​@@peterlenham3180a new system model because the old one has been terminated huh

[@cubencis]

This show was so much better than I expected. So well done and clever

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah I really enjoyed it!

[@Premium_Water]

I agree. I didnt expect it to be this good.

[@johnpaulgontor2362]

Malcolm is an combination of John Connor and Miles Dyson

[@BrainPilot]

I really liked Malcolm, thought he was a really interesting character!

[@tweeks9896]

Definitely

[@luzmariag1433]

Myles dyson he comming from the future .

[@gkft]

This was the first Terminator content aside from the first two films and Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show that I thought did the Terminator series justice. Nothing felt forced, no cheesy one-liner references, and explored new ideas that don't diverge too drastically from the elements of Cameron's films. All in all a great watch and I'll be looking forward to a second season.

[@Kins-Kooky-Insane-Stuff]

Ngl, The first two Terminator movies spinned around the fact that "Fate isnt real, the future is something you build yourself" then, the next 4 movies kicked that which was the very essence of Terminator Lore.... And well, here we are with a new anime series that again spin around the fact that future isnt made in stone and CAN change. Besides Terminator: Resistance, this is the only W terminator had after the two first movies.

[@ArlindoBuriti]

Is because it made a good job in explaing multiple timelines in a way that got with the original thing. this is a new world, you are not saving your old world, that is gone, you are changing this one, if terminator 3 had this kind of explanation i think the others before would be better receved by the fans... but no, they did like it was a continuous timeline, complete BS.

[@101Mant]

The first Terminator film was all about how fate couldn't be changed and trying to do so only made it happen. The second movie had an entirely different take and introduced the idea of changing fate. Then the third has the idea you can change the details, but the Judgment day will just happen a different way.

[@Kins-Kooky-Insane-Stuff]

@@101Mant Sadly, they stood up with the Last one... Which wasnt exactly the best idea

[@mercenaryknight5419]

Terminator-Salvation (2009) was set in the Future War and it was a W as it expanded the world and lore of the franchise. Could be watched without seeing 3, 5, or 6 as a view of the Future War which we only glimpsed in 1 and 2. Plus, at the end it emphasizes the message of "No fate but what we make for ourselves."

[@Kins-Kooky-Insane-Stuff]

@@mercenaryknight5419 Terminator Salvation had a good idea, But executed it poorly. Thats why i decided to use "Terminator: Resistance" as a better example, since they share the same idea but one is done correctly, the other one... not that much. And yet, terminator salvation is my favorite one after T1 and T2

[@MatthewK122]

I like it, some plot twist I didn't see that coming

[@TheDream3873]

This time line paradox is perhaps the best thing they could have come up with to explain a new film and not be entirely dependant for the previous films.

[@tristanbackup2536]

Dark Fate & Genysis already mentioned it. This show had to really dumb it down for the masses.

[@3452te]

I gotta say, I did not expect the T-800J was actually there to protect Kenta. Reminded me of a bit of Terminator Dawn of Fate, where a resistance fighter betrayed Tech-Com & started to work for SkyNet. But it's pretty cool that this T-800J informed him that Kenta and skynet made an alliance.

[@ArlindoBuriti]

But the difference is that in this show kenta did the alliance but to me is like a human alliance... not just kenta, it was skynet and the humans against kokoro, maybe he comes from a future where kokoro didn't chose to save humans but to kill them, now with that in mind kokoro is more advanced them skynet in 1997, that is why the alliance with the humans.

[@3452te]

@@ArlindoBuriti I think SkyNet is still a force to be reckoned with, and unlike Legion from Dark Fate, SkyNet can still inflict major destruction, and the Kokoro may be slightly more advanced, however, she is not global, as she is limited in Japan. SkyNet & Legion on the other hand are.

[@ArlindoBuriti]

@@3452te skynet has acess to military hardware from the beginning but I think Kenta comes from a future where Kokomo chose to kill humans instead and skynet has a alliance with the humans... is because Kokomo now has the entire body of a T-800 from 2020's... The leap in tech is crazy. It doesn't matter if kokoro is limited by japan only, there is a future that it doesn't matter she is just too powerful to a point that skynet has to join forces with humans against her... Remember that this was the initial plan that kokoro had? Using humans in the fight against skynet.

[@3452te]

@@ArlindoBuriti well I don't wanna say the whole body, just a head. I mean, I wished this T-800J was more like Cromartie, which I would have to say is that dude is the far superior villain. If they were to make a season 2, I would have just loved to see that Terminator return. But even though Kokoro will have his CPU chip, it won't be enough, since we don't know if there are other Terminators out there that were sent in the past.

[@ArlindoBuriti]

@@3452te now the problem comes now... how you make a season two? Can it have time travel again? Lee is borned in the 2020's how the fuck that happen? If our resistance fighter is in 1997? In the flashback she is not that old... I was thinking that old woman was her...

[@australienski6687]

This show was amazing! There better be a season2

[@BrainPilot]

Let's hope so!

[@Farron6]

The Terminator was lying to Kenta......Terminators have detailed files on human anatomy as well as psychology. We follow its steps from construction to time portal and there is zero human interaction. You see its mission parameters change after it sees the arrival of the rest of the gang and determines using the EMP is the only means remaining to shut down Kokoro. It merely tries to manipulate Kenta to help it complete its mission because as it states 'It cannot self terminate' so it would have been unable to activate it, he needed Kenta to. You even hear how it tells him that his father left him to die to try and emotionally persuade him. It was just trying to complete its other objectives after killing Lee who was the primary target as shown in episode 1.

[@TheKain202]

Unlikely. We actually see it's POV. It was just blowing hot air, whenever it said it's gonna hurt him - we literally see its primary objective is to escort the little dude, when he protects him from the rubble and we see its objectives in its heads on display. Every single time traveler in the show comes from a wildly different timeline. Malcolm comes from a timeline where there was no Kokoro, Eiko didn't need to travel back in time, so she eventually met a dude in the future and had a kid. In another she time travels, fails at her objective completely leading to Skynet subjugating Kokoro, and lives out her life in the past, growing old and meeting her younger self and sending her back. Eiko is from that timeline. In yet another timeline, Kokoro goes online, goes omnicidal against humanity AND decides Skynet is her enemy. Humanity and Skynet are forced to join forces to survive. The T800 is from that timeline. The show has actors from three separate timelines running around.

[@Farron6]

@@TheKain202 Watch it again. It doesn't care about Kenta or any of the children in particular. It only needs one of them to blackmail Malcolm with to reprogram Kokoro. It knocks Kenta out early on with no care about his state as he grabs his brother. Malcolm however says that no matter what, he will not change his mind or do what the Terminator wants.The best alternate course is that if Kokoro can't be reprogrammed then it is to be destroyed to prevent it getting in Skynets way. Hence why it tries to convince Kenta to use the EMP. In regards to your point about it coming from a different timeline to Eiko they make a big deal at the very beginning that Eiko needs to go back in time right at that moment in order to follow the Time Window the Terminator created during its own trip. It is always maddnessing when dealing with Time Travel Paradoxes.

[@asmokingp3005]

​@@TheKain202pretty interesting take. So far everything you explained makes sense

[@ArlindoBuriti]

@@Farron6 no bro... to me at the end there are choices... kokoro chose to kill the humans and skynet on his timeline... he maybe was the only one able to escape from kokoro HQ. That terminator didn't come from the resistance lady timeline, that is the twist.

[@OGSpaceMarine]

@@TheKain202whoa that’s so cool now I know the direction this show is going! It’s going to show us in different seasons in different timelines and how it all connects! Man people are going to be so confused lol 😂

[@CpnGroovy]

Some of the plot twists were awesome! I didn’t see it coming especially Malcolm’s background

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah the reveal about Malcolm was really good. The entirety of episode 7 to be honest

[@CpnGroovy]

@@BrainPilot The fact he killed those Resistance soliders and commander for Misaki in the future then they time traveled together to the 80’s and he used her CPU for Kokoro. I was blown away by that reveal. Misaki was awesome in the show! Also Eiko being Malcolm’s mother and the kids grandmother. I didn’t expect that as well 🔥

[@boredape1986]

I predicted it once kokoro said he didn't exist before 1987, but that was moments before the reveal anyways so I can't count that as a prediction. At first thought that a terminator visited him and the mother of his kids killed herself (in my prediction, she's just a normal woman) taking the terminator with it. But now it makes more sense.

[@javier232]

This show was perfection.

[@BrainPilot]

It was awesome wasn't it!

[@quanganhtong1057]

feel like this Kenta kid can be so smart, and yet so stupid at times.

[@Shinhwa22]

His younger Brother definitely made sure he was that 🤣🤣🤣

[@Nohablaespayon]

He's a kid though, regardless of how smart you think he might be.

[@GrandmasterDevo]

@@Nohablaespayon This. Smart though he may be, Kenta is still a child and lacks emotional maturity. Though like every child that's still alive after Skynet's attack, he's going to become a man too soon as he learns how to fight and survive in the hellscape that the world has become.

[@AFellowCyberman]

Even the smartest people are stupid.

[@KL-fz1bh]

All the children are dumb

[@neofulcrum5013]

8/10 for me. Normally with an ending like that (especially for a good portion of animes) I’d be disappointed. But given this is set in the terminator universe, it makes sense in my opinion. Judgement Day is an inevitability. It can only be delayed but not entirely stopped. As long as curious human minds want to explore and tinker with AI, the danger of skynet will present itself again and again. Just under a different name. All humanity can do is resist and try to keep the key figures and as many people as they can alive. Hope there’s a season 2.

[@BrainPilot]

I really hope there's a season 2 as well!

[@boredape1986]

In t-2's case, judgment day was stopped

[@TheShakan973]

I reckon the terminator was attempting to emotionally manipulate Kenta as he had the most friction with Malcom

[@SanosEdge]

"You have no fate. That's the fucking point." I wonder if the Terminator was lying about future Kenta making an alliance....to ensure it's objective was completed. The score was incredible, so somber throughout.

[@Roadkill-Films]

Terminators can lie so it's always possible. I don't recall there being any flashbacks or prior evidence of Kenta having some sort of future leadership, and we know Kenta probably has some level of main character syndrome given his personality. I reckon the T800J took Kenta because he was the weakest link, given how he viewed robots and his image of his father, and figured Kenta would be the best chance it had to trigger the EMP. I believe T800s can lie? I know for sure T850s can lie because we see that in T3 but the TZ T800 is a...Well, T800 but who knows?

[@GrandmasterDevo]

​@@Roadkill-FilmsT-800's being able to lie shouldn't even be in dispute. They're infiltrators, lying should be standard protocol for them.

[@yerxiong123]

I don’t think the terminator was lying. Kenta may have turned on the emp in the other timeline but in this timeline he didn’t . Why ? Because it just happens and there is not fate in what me make .

[@ArlindoBuriti]

@@SanosEdge no, he came from a timeline were kokoro chose to kill skynet and the humans.

[@4kpa]

@@ArlindoBuritinope it’s a timeline where sky net gets destroyed

[@vettedsin]

holy shit. what a great series!

[@BrainPilot]

Really good wasn't it!

[@jased8727]

Great Terminator addition but it's a message we already in a loop.

[@davidpolak1]

I had no expectations so I was very pleasantly surprised. Way better than most Terminator movies, especially the recent ones. My summary is as follows: story 8/10 characters 9/10 animation 9.5/10 sound and music 7/10 English dabbing 3/10 overall 8/10

[@hommyrodriguez3280]

This show fixed the timeline trope that has been haunting this franchise since Terminator 3. Timeline was treated linear. I think creating an entire new timeline was the best way to go. Now the story is wide open and not predictable. You can do anything with it.

[@peterlenham3180]

It was ALWAYS about alternate realities/timelines, they just didn't explain it properly.

[@mysticlegion8088]

Kinda stupid since timeliness are infinite. No point in getting invested.

[@ChimeraLotietheBunny]

This is totally so good of the terminator lore

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah I thought the show was awesome!

[@EnricoPallazzoooo]

Random Fact: In the german Dub, the Terminator is voiced by Arnold Schwarzeneggers current Voice Actor.

[@Sinkatze]

It was so good they should do a live action film about the anime. Everything was so well done. I really hope they can get season 2

[@jonathanj.3695]

I love how this series doesn't acknowledge the existence of Genysis and Dark Fate and instead focuses on referencing the original Terminator movie, Terminator 2, Terminator 3, and Terminator Salvation.

[@Breonnick]

It does just not out right. He mentions that there is multiple time lines of The resistance and the skynet making the same mistakes over and over again in a on going battle repeating it's self. But also Terminator 3 is a diffrent time line of events.

[@coreybell2223]

The Terminator lied to Kenta, because it couldn’t self destruct itself. It needed Kenta to set the EMP to destroy Kokoro. So it lied to him. There is no alliance between Kento and SkyNet in the future.

[@Lone_Star86]

This is definitely my new favourite Terminator after T2.

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah it was awesome!

[@Isaiah-h2o]

When Kokoro picked up the Terminator's head, I had the indication that she was going to resurrect Malcolm as a machine

[@AintPopular]

Loved malcolms role when he talks with kokoro some really thought provoking questions.

[@snooks250sx]

Misaki is what Cameron from The Sarah Connor Chronicles was becoming before the show got cancelled.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

I'm definitely hoping for a second season after this.

[@BrainPilot]

Same here!

[@Stonenugget2024]

It was confirmed

[@donaldsmith8648]

Time traveling 📽️ films always confusing to me.. like a box of puzzles 😅.. thanks 4 da breakdown my ninja

[@BrainPilot]

Glad you enjoyed the video man!

[@anton_c8gur]

WHAT AN ANIME!!!!! WHAT A LOVELY ANIME!!!!!!!!

[@deeem2628]

I WATCH I FINISH I WATCH AGAIN!

[@GrandmasterDevo]

I do like how Terminator is venturing into multiversal territory for its storytelling (although this is becoming a common trend now). The explanation about how time travel works makes for a subtle disregard for the post T2 films. Also, i know it's a pretty minor thing, but i like the fact that the T-800 is shown speaking after losing its flesh, no other Terminator film/show has done this.

[@asmokingp3005]

Make sense as it doesn't have a human voice box but aa machine voice regulator. That mimics other voices and produces sound

[@abinantony4011]

Yaa it's first time it's bit creepy but they finally show it no other movies have shown it. It's like speaking without tongue only opens mouth

[@darnelljones1918]

When you think of it Ekkio and The Terminator story is given Michael and Laurie vibe with a blend of Leprechaun (originally there was a considered film featuring it time travel to the Gold Mine)

[@dris007]

This series really made the terminator feel like dangerous killing machines, every time it speaks it feels so unnatural also the way it moves around and the scene where it tried taking the daughter

[@Regiwulf]

The show was sooo goood! It renewed my interest in the franchise more so than the new movies

[@Dan-ch8kv]

They changed how time travel works on this iteration. It matches the multiverse model of all films and series of the last 10 years. Not a problem, but it does change the rules of the IP and adds to the complexity.

[@SalinaMoonfall]

It's debatable, previous entries have given breadcrumbs indicating that multiple timelines were how it was working but haven't clearly or explicitly stated it for whatever reason...probably due to both the complexity issue, AND the implications...basically each instance of time travel is creating a new series of events independent of the previous one, but with the same results, up to and including both sides eventually sending agents back to try and change or eliminate variables. This extends beyond not just that any changes aren't benefiting the previous timeline, but also if think about it could mean the temporal cycle of them going back in time to change things has been going on through a LOT more iterations than humanity is even aware of, and Skynet itself might be closest to awareness that it's iterations have been stuck in this cycle as well...but even it might not be aware.

[@Wildchildinc]

This story had more of a dark fate among the family than Dark Fate actually had

[@radientproductions9799]

great show , that final episode was epic.

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah it really was!

[@Bintzak]

The AI Malcom creates reminds me of John Henry(AI) from the Sarah Connor chronicles.

[@Kagarin05]

My biggest thing through out the show, is if the rest of world was nuked as shown, it'd basically cause the worst storms ever right? Like ash covering the sky, nuclear storms, ect? Japan would be fucked anyways? Yet they're chilling

[@andrewmeyer3599]

Yeah, Japan would've realized really quickly something had happened to the rest of the world

[@TheGameSeekers]

Reminded me of Animatrix: Second Renaissance which gave me chills. Same as Terminator Zero. Animation felt low budget but creatively well done in some parts. Music was also good. Nostalgic and new feeling. What happened to KONEKO by the way?😂

[@2eganja1]

This show was amazing! Binged watched the whole thing now i need season 2 asap!

[@BrainPilot]

Same!

[@pabloabreu5618]

Felt like watching Ergo Proxy for me

[@ArlindoBuriti]

This show was made with season 2 in mind and you can see it. it doesn't need it because you can expeculate the rest of the holes like the revelation that the kid 25 years latter made a skynet human alliance with kenta against kokoro, what the fuck, out of nowhere LOL... but to me it was good, it had the references but is something new, like judgment day happens in 1997... but the old lady talked about skynet sending terminators to kill the leader of the resistance, so judgment day still happens in 1997... there is no good ending. but again is a timeline thing.

[@zaiderPhoenix23]

I love this already it's Soo good I just finished watching the whole episode. Im excited for the next season

[@sovetskyskaiyastrigon1750]

I can’t wait for more seasons for sure

[@BrainPilot]

Same!

[@WolfnWool]

To me the best part to me, is how this may ACTUALLY be something we will have to think in the very near future..

[@shaunmcrobert904]

Can't wait for season 2!

[@BrainPilot]

Same!

[@pabloabreu5618]

Misaki resembles both Alita and Cameron Phillips, i had a hard time liking her on first episodes but she's cute and badass

[@Wing-Zero-si1eu]

I hope the next season would show John Connor, since he lead the resistance at a very young age, after Judgement Day. I also like to see a future version of Kenta, who made a deal with Skynet for peace between humans & machines, which explains what the Terminator said that he was the one who sent it back in time to kill his father for bringing Kokaro online. And since Eiko is stuck in 1997. I can imagine her being more of a mother to her grandchildren, instead of letting them calling her grandmother. I’m also curious of who Malcom’s father was.

[@BuzryHaproMandalorianHunter]

I hope there is a season two.

[@BrainPilot]

Same!

[@AndrewJohnWard]

There will definitely be a Season 2 people went crazy for this because it's japanese anime

[@josesepulveda6805]

Ok I'm just doing this out of curiosity but can someone explain why the score was good? It felt bland and almost droning at times, there were moments where it felt to enhance the feeling of stress and looming danger, but most of the time it felt like white noise, but that's my personal opinion, so I genuinely wanna hear why people find it amazing

[@Snzn_7]

You just gotta accept it's not for you man. No need to force yourself😅. Like you don't need to for yourself to like what the Majority liked.

[@josesepulveda6805]

@@Snzn_7 I’m not really looking to change my opinion, but would like to hear someone else’s take on the score

[@BIGGBOSSSS]

Can believe it this show was epic

[@BrainPilot]

It was awesome wasn't it!

[@ibrahimdogonyaro1732]

The animators did a fantastic job 👏

[@TheSuperSoldier]

Maybe the terminator just lied to Kento

[@AintPopular]

For now..

[@richiepommells180]

I am glad they explain time travel better for us to understand. But it seems when they send someone from the future into the pasts they are creating A new future

[@chrissalter8687]

Yeah it was really good Shauna and hopefully Jim currently knows it’s a fresh start to the series very good 10 out of 10 but hopefully we get some information for season two

[@BrainPilot]

Hopefully it gets renewed!

[@drizztatk]

I thought it was going to be a better fight, because the terminator whooped her(the nanny cyborg )ass unfortunately.

[@panzerfaust187]

Binged them all. Pretty good

[@BrainPilot]

Yeah I agree!

[@tebjosh13]

Next Level! Time to Face the Future

[@BrainPilot]

It was good wasn't it!

[@Thatdanfam]

And I believe the dad knew this that his son was working with him. He did not open the door. I believe he knew the Terminator was never going to kill his son.

[@oscarsanderson7622]

I feel like there is a story where skynet is mapping out the multiverse. And spreading it self out to every universe like a virus.

[@coop8549]

Eiko is the old prophet huge

[@fulcrum6760]

She could be Misaki too. Remember, the skin can age but the strength remains.

[@oRealAlieNo]

Ahh animatrix new rennaisance

[@Prefizful]

I am going to guess whatever future went to the past stay in the past and create a new present. Kenta would be the dad of Malcolm where he met Eiko of his timeline, same age as his. This Kenta would probably send his future born son Malcolm to make sure he exist like John Connor send Kyle Reese so he would be born. The prophet of Eiko timeline would probably be a person from different timeline who failed her mission and made sure Eiko send to the past.

[@prostishinobi6481]

I was expecting for the Prophet lady to be revealed as Sarah Connor, in some angles she kinda looks like her. But who knows? Maybe that’s something for the future, or maybe she’s just a new interesting character.

[@Snzn_7]

I feel like she is Misaki, since her arms looks like a wrapped up INNO arms. She probably can age since she is Mostly Flesh and basically just have Robotic Skeleton as we see when her arm gets ripped off. Or to make it simpler, I think her flesh thing can age. There is also the theory that is Malcom's wife in a timeline where she survived the car crash.

[@allegedly_pav5487]

Best thing since t2

[@nellidivina5280]

Will there be season 2?

[@mircari]

We do need another movie to wrap it all up....but masterfully done as T2 Judgement day, so that everything may be set straight from all contradictions from T3 and on.

[@ProGriefer5522]

What threw me in a loop was when the Terminator told Kenta he was responsible for sending it back in the first place and him also being responsible for some type of “peace” between the two in the far future. Beginning of this series we are shown this terminator being constructed till it zips off back in time, all the while pockets of resistance fighters & innocents are being slaughtered to hell in a not very “peaceful” manner. I personally think the machine knew its original mission probability ran close to 0 once Malcolm began making a break through with Kokoro so its next best course of action to ensure a probable success rate was to appeal to one of the children with a lie that would destroy Kokoro indefinitely. I could be wrong but who knows if Kenta even made the right choice to begin with .

[@asmokingp3005]

The terminator that slaughtered all those people in the future and the terminator that went back aren't the same terminators If I'm not mistaken There is 3 different time travelers in the current series Malcolm and masaki is 1 timeline, eiko is a 2nd,and the terminator is the 3rd.The 1st and second is 1 from where Skynet is against human resistance. And the 3rd is where Skynet and human resistance join forces against kokoro. But like the beginning mentioned All of it is pointless cause they're only changing their current presents and Not they future that came from.

[@ProGriefer5522]

@@asmokingp3005 So when the prophet had that talk with Eiko before sending her off to the past, the prophet knew Skynet had sent a terminator back to the 1997 after Malcolm & Kokoro didn’t she? She obviously chose Eiko due to her being Malcolms mother, but she also told Eiko that they had a small window to have her sent back to the exact date & time the terminator was sent before they lost their chance. Wouldn’t that imply they were from the same future? Or is the prophet somehow aware of other alternate realities that could happen aslong as she sends the specific people needed to create it?

[@asmokingp3005]

@ProGriefer5522 no wait you right forgot about that But if that's true why are the terminators attacking humans in that timeliness if kento and skynet made an alliance?.and what was the terminators original purpose.

[@ProGriefer5522]

@@asmokingp3005 THATS EXACTLY THE SAME QUESTION I ASKED MYSELF lmao. The only logical thing I could think of is the terminator must’ve known its mission success rate dipped to its lowest once Malcom broke through Kokoro so its next best course of action was to lie & appeal to the most vulnerable sibling (Kenta) and have him destroy Kokoro one and for all. It sounds like a reach but Eiko did state it would do anything and everything to ensure its mission objective succeeds, as all Skynet terminators do. But there could be another timeline at play here, Im not too sure on the specifics which is why this plot point confused me to begin with

[@caketakeshh]

​@@ProGriefer5522 In the earlier episodes, it wasn't focused on a specific kid, it tried to lure Reika first and even violently threw Kenta aside and gave him a concussion. I'm convinced it lied to pressure Kenta.

[@RonaldLadao]

Question about Terminator Zero's time travel explain. Was Eiko, and The Terminator came from two different timelines, and somehow those two got send to the same point of time? Cause The Terminator said he was send by an alliance with Skynet and Kenta (yet, that could be a lie from the terminator)?? Yet. Eiko gave birth to Malcome in 2025. Yet Eiko got send in the past in 2022??? Yet is the Eiko that was send in the past still the same Eiko who gave birth??

[@Isaiah-h2o]

That's where the paradox comes in. No matter what timeline you look at, Malcolm creates Misaki and goes back in time to create Kokoro. She cannot exist without him, and Malcolm will eventually have Kenta and the others. That hint was also indicated when Kenta saw a reflection of his adult self in the Cat Town amusement park. So yes, the Terminator and Eiko came from the same timeline because she used his jump to end up at the same destination. Now from this standpoint, I believe the old woman is Eiko and the mother of the Malcolm we're currently seeing. I feel she knows so much about time travel and the parallel timelines that are created because she went back in time herself and failed her mission in stopping Skynet and Kokoro. She experienced the apocalypse twice and analyzed the differences. I say this because Malcolm quotes what the old woman tells Eiko in the first episode as he reminisces about the mother he knew. That's just my theory tho ;)

[@who2273]

i dont understand how kokoro would let the terminator walk around the base freely.. anyone would think kokoro should have that emp heavily guarded but they just waltz through it...

[@jaredbear6105]

Remember when terminator killed kid john connor and he said he had no purpose after his mission was successful. He found a purpose and he couldnt self terminate. Hmmmmm. I like that take on time travel.

[@Nostalgic-mt6lr]

Will there be a season 2?

[@BrainPilot]

Hopefully!

[@Nostalgic-mt6lr]

@@BrainPilot I think its the best continuation of the franchise since T2. The Sarah Connor chronicles was good also. It would be a shame if we didn't get a few more seasons out of it.

[@ConradProteus]

it had cool scenes but it also had lots and LOTS of boring scenes

[@Fosten12]

When i first read about this i was expecting a shitty netflix franchise milking show. I was proven wrong. The show was really really good!

[@foxdavani4091]

I hope there isnt a season 2. His show ends so perfectly. It gives us hope but also….not. A season 2 would drag things on when this is a perfectly tight story with no fat. We dont need a story to complicate things. Overly complicate like terminator 3 4 5 6 did when the first 2 had such a tight story.

[@richiepommells180]

Judgement day is predestined it can never change only prepare you for What’s to come

[@LONELY-VISUAL]

Skynet has a fight with his wife Kokoro and they go to war

[@oliviamoore3426]

Okay, so the show got time travel wrong and right. They are referring to string theory. Ie. Every time someone time travels a new timeline is created. Other time travelers cannot get to your timeline, unless you travel together. What they got right is that the timeline you came from cannot be changed , you can never return to it. What you do in the new timeline doesn’t affect the timeline you came from.

[@BrettHoTep]

I enjoyed this but it’s another don’t think about it too hard series. If you can’t fix the present for everyone by going back in time then there is no point to go back in time except to change your own future. Then it becomes a selfish decision.

[@abinantony4011]

That Terminator is from a future where humans and skynet join forces and the enemy is kokoru more likely is it legion???. So many time travels all at once

[@luzmariag1433]

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[@BrainPilot]

It was a very good show!

[@hardcorecarlo]

Sorry, but as a fan of the movies and the lore around it, I cannot fully like this anime, the fact that Kenta sent the Terminator from the futer to... What? Protect him? Protect him from what? From the Terminstor itself going rampant killing insistent people and overall misstreat him (kenta) and everybody arounf him? Why does Malcom mistreats Misaki so much if she was special to him? What future were they trying to save if all the bombs fell allover the world but Japan? And that Eiko was Malcolm's grandmother, come one dude, really? Friking bs men

[@Snzn_7]

The terminator wasn't protecting Kenta, Kenta is the "plan B". The terminator just needs Kenta to be alive to be used as "plan A" hostage for Malcolm, "Plan B" to use him to activate the Emp. Like lol, where did you get the Idea that The Terminator is protecting Kenta from something/someone?. Like basically he will treat Kenta like shit as long as his alive for Plan A. But since Plan A failed, Then the terminator switched up and try to get on Kenta's good side for Plan B to work. Basic stuff. Easy to understand The Terminator was sent back to control Kororo. Kenta is just a means to accomplish that goal. Next . Malcolm mistreats Misaki.??? Lol, Malcolm just got angry at her when the kids went missing under her watch. Like it's likely that many father's would get angry at their "wife", if the kids went missing under the wife's watch. Its a pretty conceivable idea, I don't know where you pulled the "mistreatment" angle from. Lol Again Malcolm was trying to use Kokoro to stop Skynet from launching the nukes. But that plained failed since Malcolm was not able to convince Kokoro before Judgement day. Basically it was too late and Kokoro was only able to secure Japan but not the rest of the world. Also Eiko was Malcolm' mother. If you are true Terminator fan then you will know shit like that happens, like how in the movies Kyle is John's father. Like it's basic Terminator stuff and you call yourself a fan of the movies?? A lot of your complaints are merely just you not comprehending what you had watch, lol😂 Like if you watch the show you would know that.

[@1idd0kun]

The Terminator was lying to Kenta. It couldn't be more obvious because the show never shows any flashback or future scene of Kenta making a deal with Skynet.

[@BaberAfzal]

I honestly had to go thru the comments section to make sure that terminator was lying to Kenta and didn’t mean a word he said. 😂 I bet most or some people got fooled by that too including myself. LOL

[@papery0shi]

I totally believed the terminator 😂😂

[@tonyg3644]

I just want to know what happened to the robot cat???

[@BrainPilot]

That is true to be fair!

[@SNSTStrider]

I thought the character development was too weak in spite of the interesting plot and production value. I kept asking myself "why do I care?" throughout the show. Misaki was the only intriguing character that had some development whereas everyone else was fairly one dimensional

[@Klaatu6432]

So eiko is like John Connor 😢

[@Knighthell75]

There’s a logic bug. How is it possible that Kokoro goes online if the internet is controlled by Skynet?

[@1idd0kun]

Was it ever said that Skynet was connected to the Internet? I remember only Terminator 3 mentioned something like that, but that movie was a total disaster and no one should care about anything coming from it. In the original two Terminator movies, the Internet is never mentioned. What Skynet was hooked up to was the US military network, which is not the same as the Internet.

[@tristanbackup2536]

The Internet was around since the 90s actually.

[@crystallondon737]

@brainPilot The problem with the new explanation of time travel and timelines is that now, travelling in time doesn’t make sense at all… Imagine in your timeline , humans are being hunted by Skynet and Malcolm’s AI, and so you conclude that travelling back to stop Malcom creating the AI would solve the issue. But no, it would only mean you go to someone else’s timeline to shut down the AI but in that timeline, it could be that tha Ai is actually on the humans side and the last line of defence. So now, you have shut down the AI because of what happened in your timeline, but just messed it up for the future of the new timeline Therefore travelling back in time altogether is redundant. It made the entire purpose of the show pointless in fact

[@gyulatakacs1824]

I think Malcom did a horrible job arguing that humanity needs to exist.

[@BrainPilot]

I think it's because he didn't truly know himself!

[@PLACESNONDESCRIPT]

Why do we nilotes have names like kokoru and Kenta and also Japanese have same names

[@UnholyRaven_]

So if Time Travel Doesn't Change Time Then Were Certain Events Ment to Happen Like John's Father Being Kyle Reese? so Wouldn't That Make T2 and Alternate Timeline as They Destroyed any Trace of The Terminator and T-1000 This Confuses me as The Idea of Multiple Timelines is Kinda retcons Alot of things from the films

[@pheejl7534]

I expected better art work. Some parts were good, like with the beginning scene where Eiko’s fighting the T-800 in that factory/building, but at times some of the characters look like Pokémon style drawings only. Kiddish.

[@Dan-ch8kv]

The humanist attempt to prove why humanity is worth saving falls flat every time. There is no ultimate standard to point to, and the destruction we produce has no inherent meaning than what we make of it. The creator of the show said he’s not a nihilist, but that’s the logical ends of humanism, and the attempt to design a logical god will only see the end of the human run as a positive. That said humanism lives on the back of theism, while rejecting the ground on which it walks. It will only ever fail to produce the meaning it seeks.

[@mtemibokono-h6i]

100%

[@shadowenergyAI]

there is 0 reason to believe the terminator was saying the truth. it lies and manipulates all the time (used other people voices and the like). the only truth it probably did say in the final scenes is that it needs a human to switch the emp and it knew it needs to manipulate the kid.