I’m a day or three late with this, but I’m posting it for the links, in particular. I highly recommend the Fox series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was a very worthy addition to the story, and which evolved in interesting ways over two or so seasons. (It is pretty grim for TV.) I’ll tell you the ending because it isn’t a spoiler, in that the series doesn’t depend on this surprise: teen-aged John Connor ends up in a future where John Connor is unknown. I would have liked to see that storyline extended.

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According to the (what I can only assume) is the official Terminator wiki page:

April 19, 2011. At 20:11 Skynet goes online.
As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800[1] destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.[2]

When this happens, this happens within the movie Terminator 2. …

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