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Kin
Nov 4, 2003

Sometimes, in a city this dirty, you need a real hero.
I thought the ending was perfect as it closed the loop.

Future John Connor was supposed to be this legendary guy who rose up to fight the machines but the machines knew nothing about him. How's that possible?

This is how:
Conner shows up from nowhere and becomes a legend.
The Machines send someone back in time to try and kill him in the past but they haven't got any idea where to look so go after a list of people that could be his mother.
This leads to his birth.
Skynet keeps trying to send terminators back to kill him as a kid but all that does is force John to be trained at an early age in guerilla warfare, leadership and other legendary soldiery stuff.
This also results in a young John Conner being sent to the future armed with future knowledge and a legendary soldier skill-set to lead the rebellion and force skynet to send someone back in time to try and kill him.
Because he was sent to the future as a kid, Young Skynet is never able to find out about him.

Basically, the future never changes, Skynet's actions lead to the creation of itself and its destroyer (which was basically one of the big themes of the first 2 films).

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