Sequential Timeline

8:50 Dani’s Brother wants to be famous. More so than Bruno Mars in terms of likes on social media. This highlights societal concerns with the obsession with popularity and fame, where individuals prioritize online validation and recognition above other measures of success or fulfillment. 

• Bruno Mars has a net worth of around $175 million, and in 2019, he became one of the highest-earning celebrities. [2]

12:30: demonstrates Robots taking someone’s job (automation). Specifically in the manufacturing industry

Terminator A - Rev 9. Sent from the future (Legion timeline)  -> pretty much unkillable

• Transforms replications of itself TWO TERMINATORS Essentially

• Able to manifest into anything. With physical contact. I.e., Dani’s father at the beginning

• Examples like 22:48 send self to the driver's seat

• Like fluid

• Air splits open up, and a terminator drops out. SEEN twice in the beginning

17:30 Woman's savior (Grace) is Augmented. This means she has increased strength, agility, and stamina, essentially making her a super soldier. 

25:02 Sarah Connor, who we are formally introduced to later on, saves Grace and Dani. She says, “I'll be back.”

30:01 Grace overheats and needs meds. She uses a gun to steal them. 

32:01 Sarah Connor picks them up from outside of the pharmacy, saving Grace and Dani, given that they are both helpless. Sarah introduces herself here as well.

32:18 Sarah threw Dana's phone out the window of her car, saying that it is easy to trace and that she might as well be wearing a tracking bracelet. Given the described ease of tracking, this can be tied to information privacy. 

32:49 Sarah puts her phone in a Foil chip bag. This is because, apparently, the aluminum makes it untraceable. 

41:15 Talks about how everything in the current time is built to track you. 7-11 cameras, gas stations, phone tracking, intersections | “Digital trail a Mile Wide.” Terminators can access that data anytime. 

42:50 Sarah gets messages with precise Coordinates for a terminator-related event.  The messages end with "For John," which is her late son's name. These texts are encrypted, but using Grace's futuristic abilities, they were able to find out that the messages came from a place in Texas, with the same coordinates written on Grace's body.

45:40 and 52:10, Dani helps them sneak across the US-Mexico border via her Uncle.  The movie depicted many people's poor conditions here, raising social and ethical questions.

46:23 Rev-9 Terminator breaks into the Rathium Data center, stealing information. 

46:38 We saw how these terminators will stop at nothing. To get the job done. This raises ethical questions about society and reliability. 

• “No running, only hiding.” 

47:01, 54:17, and 1:02:17 The Rev-9 terminator, with U.S. Government surveillance technology, was able to track down one specific person over the Huge group. This raises ethical questions on this level of surveillance and what could happen if a malicious user got control of the systems. 

53:40 We can see the U.S. Border Control using technologies like UAVs to track illegal immigrants. This is both a social issue and an ethical issue. 

57:47 Terminator Hacked the drone to crash into Dani and the group. This can be a computer reliability issue, as drones shouldn't crash into a group of people, potentially harming them. 

1:06:00 The Rev-9 Terminator is seen to able to manipulate people to get what he wants

1:07:09 Carl is revealed to be the mystery texter. (Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 - T - 800). Carl has a kid named Mateo, who gives him purpose. Carl is described as having grown conscious and has free will. 

1:11:50  It is revealed that Carl writes texts to Sarah to give her son's death some purpose.

1:14:49 The biggest weakness of the Rev-9 terminator is that it only sees its mission. 

1:20:30 Carl chose not to wear his glasses. The shades are supposed to symbolize an emotionless, mechanical killer, which Carl apparently no longer sees himself as.

1:28:06 The group plans to use EMPs to fry the Rev-9's Neural Net 

1:31:12 Revealed that Dani saved Sarah previously and raised her + created resistance

• Screw fate. We should take control of our fate and fight for a better life. 

• “There is no fate but what we make for ourselves” 1:31:34

1:36:54 Humvee with a parachute to soften the landing

1:51:20 Dani uses Grace’s power source to fry the Rev-9 Neural Net. 

1:54:53 Carl sacrifices himself to kill the Rev-9 terminator. Dies with his final message being, “For John”. 

References:

[1] Eliana Dockterman, Untangling the Terminator Franchise’s Complicated Timeline, (Time, November 1st, 2019), https://time.com/5697301/terminator-movies-timeline-explained/ (April 3rd, 2024)

[2] Lea Veloso, Bruno Mars’ Net Worth Revealed Amid His Alleged $50M Gambling Debt, (stylecaster, March 19th, 2024), https://stylecaster.com/lists/bruno-mars-net-worth/bruno-mars-net-worth/ (April 18th, 2024)