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Wait a second. There’s a huuuuuge plot hole in Terminator 2

If Dyson’s advanced technological work that lead to Sk...
Hot Plaza
  07/15/21
yeah the terminator series doesn't do time travel very well.
Boyish Blood Rage Half-breed
  07/15/21
One of the characters says that but that doesn't make it tru...
odious embarrassed to the bone library
  07/15/21
(some kind of linear time master mind)
slate big box office
  07/15/21
Divergent timeline
Vibrant Godawful Psychic Weed Whacker
  07/15/21
i thought the bigger plothole was that he was black
Doobsian shrine
  07/15/21
Was surprised this wasn’t the first reply
jet-lagged haunting mexican legal warrant
  07/15/21
XO getting cucky under Biden
Doobsian shrine
  07/16/21
he looks just like the guy who invented the super soaker
sexy thriller haunted graveyard
  06/03/22
'paradoxes' are the central point of discussion in all criti...
walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction
  07/15/21
cr. it's basically a redditard 105 IQ tell at this point to ...
concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond
  07/15/21
This isn’t a paradox or a plot hole
garnet bipolar locus
  07/15/21
...
concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond
  07/16/21
why don't you explain how it isn't
walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction
  07/16/21
do you know what a plot hole is? and I don't mean the red...
concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond
  07/16/21
whoa, whoa, let me stop you right there! 1) literally *NO...
walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction
  07/16/21
accurate moniker
concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond
  07/16/21
a more precise answer is: if this timeline/universe is the ...
hairraiser selfie home
  07/16/21
Dyson was probably working on diversity initiatives at some ...
gold roommate
  07/16/21
...
slate big box office
  12/24/25


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Date: July 15th, 2021 9:35 PM
Author: Hot Plaza

If Dyson’s advanced technological work that lead to Skylab was created only because they found the remains of the first terminator’s arm in the car crusher how the FUCK did Dyson ever come up with the technology in the first place if it could have only been created by future events that had yet to happen? SOMETHING DOESN’T ADD UP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789071)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 9:37 PM
Author: Boyish Blood Rage Half-breed

yeah the terminator series doesn't do time travel very well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789080)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 9:38 PM
Author: odious embarrassed to the bone library

One of the characters says that but that doesn't make it true. How the fuck would he know anyway? Dyson is obviously a smart dude. Maybe seeing the arm accelerated the original timeline if anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789088)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 9:45 PM
Author: slate big box office

(some kind of linear time master mind)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789114)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:06 PM
Author: Vibrant Godawful Psychic Weed Whacker

Divergent timeline

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789193)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:06 PM
Author: Doobsian shrine

i thought the bigger plothole was that he was black

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789196)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:12 PM
Author: jet-lagged haunting mexican legal warrant

Was surprised this wasn’t the first reply

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789223)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 12:35 AM
Author: Doobsian shrine

XO getting cucky under Biden

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789830)



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Date: June 3rd, 2022 10:15 AM
Author: sexy thriller haunted graveyard

he looks just like the guy who invented the super soaker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#44619261)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:07 PM
Author: walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction

'paradoxes' are the central point of discussion in all critiques of time travel movies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789199)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:11 PM
Author: concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond

cr. it's basically a redditard 105 IQ tell at this point to proudly announce a "plot hole" along these lines.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789219)



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Date: July 15th, 2021 10:16 PM
Author: garnet bipolar locus

This isn’t a paradox or a plot hole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42789241)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:07 PM
Author: concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794326)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:20 PM
Author: walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction

why don't you explain how it isn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794406)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:23 PM
Author: concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond

do you know what a plot hole is?

and I don't mean the reddit definition like "Plot hole in Back to the Future! How come Marty's parents didn't recognize him later in life? Plot hole!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794423)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:33 PM
Author: walnut bat-shit-crazy kitchen dysfunction

whoa, whoa, let me stop you right there!

1) literally *NOBODY* cares about your esoteric definition of 'plot hole'. nobody. everyone understands the conversational use of 'plot hole' in OP. was this seriously your intention in bumping this shitty, pointless subthread? to wax autistic on the film theory definition of 'plot hole'?

2) he said it was not a paradox either, which it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794468)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:37 PM
Author: concupiscible offensive school cafeteria generalized bond

accurate moniker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794474)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:28 PM
Author: hairraiser selfie home

a more precise answer is: if this timeline/universe is the only one AND Sarah and The Terminator were successful in changing the future, then T2 or BTTF do not make sense. because of the causation paradox you refer to. it would mean the terminator tech just shows up even though in no future are there terminators (which perhaps is possible, however strange).

but if there are multiples extant timelines and time travel involves traveling between them, then you can both change the present and future, yet be from the same past.

moreover, you have to account for the clear choice by James Cameron that they didn't actually change the future. hence the black open road at the end (as opposed to the more triumphant deleting scene ending which shows an old Sarah Connor). Although I believe I heard Cameron say he believed they did and the future was won (he later must have changed his mind).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794447)



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Date: July 16th, 2021 8:29 PM
Author: gold roommate

Dyson was probably working on diversity initiatives at some place like Supermicro, heard from his dad that the family junkyard found a terminator arm and microchip, and then went back to Supermicro saying that we should pivot the business in this way, and was able to hire an all star team that then developed the advanced tech which he got credit for. Happens a lot at tech companies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#42794449)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: slate big box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4878852&forum_id=2/#49538012)