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The Terminator

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Questions cover genre identity, Kyle’s knowledge and survival, causal loops, Tech Noir geography, and the unrealized phone-book-killer premise.

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  • If forced to choose one genre, the votes split between horror and science fiction.
  • The panel asks whether Reese knew he was John Connor’s father and agrees John probably withheld that information.
  • Kyle surviving is rejected because his sacrifice completes the story and audiences primarily wanted Arnold to return.
  • The time loop raises whether Sarah’s survival was ever truly in doubt and remains unexplained to the panel’s satisfaction.
  • The exact Pico location of Tech Noir conflicts with the chase’s Overland reference and downtown imagery.
  • They ask why the phone-book-killer method never became its own thriller and why Reese did not arrive early enough to have Sarah unlist her number.