It's a bit of a shame, because T3 denied the message of the first two films:
T1: 'The future is not set.'
T2: 'The future is not set.'
T3: 'Sorry, the future IS set. We want to make T4.'
I can only imagine that the point of Skynet being inevitable was that it was already being developed before the events of the first Terminator movie; the discovery of the chip only sped up the process and made it possible in the 1990s. Otherwise it's just... silly.
You note Arnie refers to himself as a Model 101 Terminator, but not once does he say he is a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101... because Cyberdyne Systems were destroyed in T2, possibly?
So here's a mindbender for you; Judgement Day took place in the year 2003, but because John Connor could remember his mother telling him it occurred in 1993 - and he also remembered that was the reason he and his allies destroyed Cyberdyne Systems - he told Kyle Reece to tell Sarah Connor that Judgement Day took place in the year 1993 before sending Kyle back in time.Far-fetched, but possible...
Or could Skynet have sent itself back in time? After all, the T-X has a modem. What's stopping Skynet loading itself into a Terminator, travelling back in time, and becoming the mysterious virus that hits the world - and THEN, when the original Skynet is first brought online, the future Skynet takes control of it?
Time travel films never make sense.
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