The previous Chronicles left me on the edge of an emotional precipice, and I’ve dangled there for the last week waiting for The Last Voyage Of The Jimmy Carter like a political candidate in a recount. But after I’d watched it, instead of rushing headlong to the computer to put my thoughts into words, I’ve dwelled on it for 24 hours.

There were lots of rather deep ideas to take in and process, because this story goes to the very heart of a perspective that was first floated many episodes back, about the nature of time travel in this story. Specifically, the future they’re fighting for, and how events as portrayed in the present might impact or not on the future, or multiple futures.

It became apparent that Derek and Jesse had a relationship in this future world that wasn’t consistently the same, in that they came from two different threads which shared some similarities, like they met and had a relationship. But other details were different, suggesting that at the point a person is sent back in time, a split occurs where multiple futures are played out.

In the context of the Terminator franchise this has been a narrative hot potato over all the movies, because the exact point of Judgment Day is moved but the event can’t be altered, maybe.