MATTSON TOMLIN: It just felt the most clear. It's kind of the thing that as a baseline, fans know, August 29th, 1997, okay, yeah, got it. People generally love the first two movies. You get into, I think, Genisys, how it starts to move Judgment Day. I know Terminator 3, it kind of gets postponed a few times. There's something about that, for me, where I go, fine, valid. When you get to, I wanna say, episode seven of Terminator Zero, for the people who really need to understand where in the timeline are we, like what's canon, what's not, there's a moment that's going to give those people what they want as far as an answer. But for me, it really just came down to, what's the most primal, elemental thing, and I think the first two movies set up the concept of Judgment Day so clearly, and then we kind of skip it. And for me, going into working on this show, it just kind of felt like we've seen Judgment Day in flashback, flashfoward, in dreams, in visions. We've never lived through it. We've never been on the ground, we've never been in ground zero of it. And so, that for me, felt like this is new territory to go into, and it's hard to find new territory for something that's forty years old.
