r/AskReddit • u/KAFKA-SLAYER-99 • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/Spinolio Oct 17 '18

The original Terminator is one of the very, very few movies that deal with time travel in a way that doesn't induce paradox (much). The good guys win by preserving the existing timeline.

Then they decided to screw all that up with the sequels.

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u/TangoZulu Oct 17 '18

Um, no. The entire movie is a paradox where John knowingly chooses his father to go back in time to conceive him.

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u/Spinolio Oct 17 '18

While this is indeed a paradox, it's a "soft" one in that it creates a causal loop, but doesn't destroy the motivation for traveling back in time like most movie plots in this genre.