Cameron never answered the question...

Rating: 9/10 (13 October 2000)

For fans of the Terminator (1984) we know that the war was won by the humans. They had smashed the grid, whatever that means. In a last ditch effort the Artificially Intelligent computer system Skynet, built originally by Cyberdine Industries, sent the terminator back to kill Sarah Connor before her son John could even be conceived. However, that Terminator failed in its mission. But, somehow Skynet must have stayed in power, because the T-1000 series obviously was created much later in time than the Arnold model series. It was a vast technological improvement that could only have been created much after Reese went back in time, as he had no knowledge of such a machine. In fact, the humans apparently were to have blown up the time machine as soon as Reese went through. It's a shame that Cameron never explained this. Surely he could have tied up this huge loose end that makes the entirety of T2 impossible, based of course, on its own mythology, not a failure to willfully suspend disbelief.