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Respond to this this thread with some unique ideas for the show. Perhaps the writers will see something they could use. :)

My ideas:

1. Creepy-crawly terminators. These terminators are used mostly for stealth missions and data gathering, but can also be used as bombs to take out bridges, vehicles, and anything else they can latch onto. Imagine a large robotic centipede or spider that can latch onto a person's body and then explode (bye-bye head)! I think smaller terminators could be just as scary as large ones. These terminators could also be fired from specially-designed guns.

2. Aquatic Terminators. Used for warfare in or on water, these eel-like terminators can move through the water faster than you can say, "Skippy, there be trouble." Their quick and agile maneuverability in the water makes these terminators perfect for locating or planting mines or tracking human marine activity. They can also take out small boats in a similar fashion as the insect terminators (see previous idea).

3. Perhaps Sarah never contracts cancer and dies. It could all be a cover to protect herself and to ensure John's survival. She could play a more important role in the survival of mankind than what we have been led to believe.

Okay, so those are my ideas. Now let's hear some of yours! Remember, this isn't a critique. Don't comment on other people's ideas. Just contribute your own. Have fun, and use your imagination.

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As a science enthusiast writer wannabe I always appreciate writing that tries to at least get general science principles correct and not stray into complete science fantasy. Yes, yes, purists object to time travel in general. But it does make for fun stories and thought experiments.

The best model that has a chance at not completely blowing logic to pieces is the Endless Quantum Realities (EQR) idea. Or that time travel actually represents a kind of lateral movement into realities that seem the same but that have progressed temporally at a different rate than our own (slower for the past, faster for the future).

This makes "sense" because a whole range of causality paradox issues are no longer problems. Anything you do does not effect your memory (or existence) as the reality of your origin remains unchanged. If you were to kill your mother, it just prevents a "version" of you in that reality from existing, And within any given reality the past is stable and does not morph before an observers eyes. I.e. no parts of photographs fading in or out of existence. Also, you can meet versions of yourself or others from realities that do not match your own memories. And information developed from one reality can be brought to another reality and used to construct what appears to be the origin of that object (an apparent paradox but not actually.) It also supports the "no fate" assertion that might otherwise seem contradicted by a future that has "already happened".

However, there is a kind of zen problem in EQR for certain types of characters. The realization that if your trying to prevent something from happening all your really doing is changing how one of an infinite number of realities might play out. It also presents an interesting question about what a machine that understands EQR is trying to accomplish by traveling back in time.

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