"Okay, in hopes of boosting some SCC on topic chit chat, I'm gonna post a question I've had in my head for a while, but didn't ask for fear of being called an idiot =P

(and I apologize in advance if this is discussed elsewhere, which it likely is)

In Season one we see Cromartie putting himself back together. He posts the equation for the synthetic blood on the wall of the scientists home, in essence "inventing" the blood himself- for in this timeline, it's the first case it's ever been seen.

Obviously he has taken this information with him from the future to the past, and is creating it for us here in the present.

My question is, if the blood is being invented by someone who brought it back through time, was there a point in time when someone actually thought out the formula and invented it from scratch?

Is there a person somewhere in time who comes up with this equation for the first time ever, or does the fact that it's been brought back by Cromartie create a timeloop in which an initial creation of the blood *does not* exist??

I hope this makes sense, and I realize I likely am just overthinking, but hey! All of us who are fans of this series overthink- time travel is a major mind eff)

Anywho! Chit chat awayyy!"

"This remind me of the paradox of the man with no past I read about it in this article
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/mysteries/html/kaku1-1.html
There is also the paradox of the man who is his own mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, and grandchild"

"The paradox you describe is similar to the John/Skynet time travel paradox. Was there ever a point where John's father wasn't Kyle Reese? Admittedly though, I never thought of the blood as this kind of paradox... Didn't Cromartie kill the guys that helped him produce the blood? I don't think the blood was ever collected so that it could be reproduced in the future, though I may be wrong. (I'm not sure if blood stains on the walls would be enough to reproduce it.)"

"We don't know how time travel would work. It doesn't exist.

The Terminator Universe defines time travel such that the future can be changed. Otherwise, there would be no point to Sarah's attempts to stop Judgment Day. The movies and TSCC have portrayed the future as changeable.

I think Sarah first had a son by some man whom we don't know. After Judgment Day, he became the leader of the Resistance, and they were winning the war against Skynet. His name was John Connor. He sent back Kyle Reese who fathered a son with Sarah, whom she named John, too. This John is a different person from the first John. This John is the John we know in TSCC.

I put some of these thoughts on my profile page."

"Okay, in hopes of boosting some SCC on topic chit chat, I'm gonna post a question I've had in my head for a while, but didn't ask for fear of being called an idiot =P

(and I apologize in advance if this is discussed elsewhere, which it likely is)

In Season one we see Cromartie putting himself back together. He posts the equation for the synthetic blood on the wall of the scientists home, in essence "inventing" the blood himself- for in this timeline, it's the first case it's ever been seen.

Obviously he has taken this information with him from the future to the past, and is creating it for us here in the present.

My question is, if the blood is being invented by someone who brought it back through time, was there a point in time when someone actually thought out the formula and invented it from scratch?

Is there a person somewhere in time who comes up with this equation for the first time ever, or does the fact that it's been brought back by Cromartie create a timeloop in which an initial creation of the blood *does not* exist??

I hope this makes sense, and I realize I likely am just overthinking, but hey! All of us who are fans of this series overthink- time travel is a major mind eff)

Anywho! Chit chat awayyy!

edit- Oh, and in the future when they look back to see who created the blood, will they say Dr. Hadhiseyestaken??"