"OK. Here I am.

Penny for your thoughts."

"Yo, TNT, the TSCC reboot was fleshed out at length and massaged by several very active TSCC fans. So is a LOT more stuff but it is locked away. Everyone signed Non-Disclosures. I don't know if I fully own it but no other contracts for intellectual material rights.

Just saying that we took this premise waaaaaay down the road to see what the journey looked like, and it was both exciting and engaging every step of the way. Would have really liked to have seen it become a reality. Lots of background research and legwork put into it.

So it was not just a mere flight of fancy!

And it had the potential to go a loooong way into the future. there was plenty of material for exploring all sorts of things.

We all thought fans would really like it.

One of the objectives was to give validity that fans could come up with neat ideas and present them in a way others could appreciate. Hey, what about AEM? We wanted to open that door a little wider - albeit not with a career in mind.

This writing project was designed to take fan fic to the next level. The outined data became some of the opening conversations about what could be IF you started with a clean sheet of paper, using what you knew about T from T1 & T2. If wasn't the entire premise, but it was a starting point for a NEW conversation about what TSCC could BE about. And many good ideas from others came as a result of it."

"You all put in so much work for this, and it has been hidden away under lock and key.

You ought to post with all the other fanfics it so everyone can enjoy it, or you ought to sell it for a book or illustrated novel, etc.

Too bad."

"Every time someone makes a time jump, there is the possibility of changing the timeline.

Skynet's hope when it sent back the T1000 was to kill John Connor, and that would change the whole future.

Future John's hope when it sent back Uncle Bob was to prevent that.

One result of the two of them getting sent back was that Sarah blew up Cyberdyne. This naturally wiped out the future of the T1000 and of Uncle Bob. That Skynet was destroyed.

Sarah went into hiding with John. She must have believed that Skynet was eliminated and there would be no Judgment Day. The FBI would still be after her, but no more terminators.

I remember that James Cameron even made an alternate ending for T2 where Sarah is old and John is a Senator. This implies that JC considered that they really really did beat Skynet permanently. However, since this alternate ending was never put on the theatrical release, it is not canon.

So instead, Sarah and John just laid low and avoided the FBI. That's where TSCC picks up. Sarah was living with Charley. Ellison was the FBI agent looking for her.

It was back in 1999. In another six years, by 2005, Sarah would die of cancer. Two years after that in 2007 Andy Goode would make the first Turk, and this first Turk would win the chess tournament.

As prize, the first Turk would get taken by the Air Force and eventually it would be put in charge of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. After it becomes Skynet, it causes Judgment Day.

Years after this Judgment Day, Skynet gets a hold of the TDE and sends Cromartie back to kill John. Future John captures the TDE and sends Cameron to protect himself.

Both Cromartie and Cameron catch up with Sarah and John at the Red River High School in 1999. Their time jumps back to 1999 put them in a position to change the future again.

Later, Cam, Sarah, and John jump forward to 2007 and burn the first Turk."

"Yeah, good explanation. Got it.

Now let's get you back ON topic, so answer the question:

Starting from T2. using the TSCC characters, who would you lay out a new TSCC?

I just went back and read the stuff on my rant page starting with the fiction and going down. (sorry I never completed formating the response put on JF's blog page). The ideas there are pretty darn good. I now see why so many fans came out of the woodwork. That one piece became a galvanizing point.

Even when folks didn't agree it set a standard for creativity that others embraced and propelled forward. This became the hallmark quality of all that were associated or contributed. I have fond memories of that period, even as my heart was whenching knowing the show was going down in flames."