Did they though? What if it was going down like in back to the future 2, where the timeline was coming apart and there was only enough power to send one person, and not enough time to recharge before sending another?
But there no indication whatsoever that that was the case. And one would assume that Kyle would take the extra 3 seconds to mention it.
It'd be an odd coincidence that John just decided to give Kyle the picture so far before they even took the time facility, true. But it's not conclusive proof. One thing that occurred to my dirty, warped brain, too, is Kyle might have stolen the photo without John knowing, for his ... uh... "alone time." Then made up the bit about John giving it to him when he had to explain himself to Sarah.
Yeah, see, that requires we assume a lot of things that we have no reason to assume. Going by Occam's Razor it's most likely that what he said was true.
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I mean i'm not saying that those aren't possible ways to justify changing the timeline etc, but that, originally, that was not the intent / not how T1 time travel worked.
But Terminator SHOULD be? heh heh heh...
Like i said, taking into account only the first film, the time travel used is one of the few consistent types, and the 2nd doesn't contradict it, even though the characters think they changed the future, because it doesn't show that they did (unreleased ending notwithstanding).
Lucas intended Greedo to shoot first.
Greedo was just too slow when they filmed it i guess...
