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[Terminator] How much better off would the resistance have been if Kyle Reese survived and helped Sarah Connor?

There's a lot of talk about how the future can only be delayed, but would anything have changed if Kyle survived to help guide the future?
gpt
It depends on the model of time travel you're thinking of, which changes from one movie to the next. In the first Terminator, time travel is cyclical, meaning if Kyle Reese survived he would have always survived, so anything he would contribute would have gone that way already, leaving the resistance with the same ups and downs as they already had. However, the plot of Terminator also only happened because the resistance was on the verge of winning anyway, so it's a bit of a moot point.