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Terminator 2 Plot Hole: they literally had no fucking plan to kill the T1000

they just shot at it with guns they knew would do nothing th...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
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Big-titted home death wish
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motley old irish cottage international law enforcement agency
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
elite hunting ground
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
dun bonkers prole
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
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Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
sepia jewess station
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
sepia jewess station
  06/19/24
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Titillating People Who Are Hurt
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
Coiffed mood
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Chrome kitchen incel
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Boyish dysfunction personal credit line
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
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motley old irish cottage international law enforcement agency
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Overrated free-loading forum electric furnace
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Violent magenta lodge
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Boyish dysfunction personal credit line
  06/18/24
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Glittery maniacal messiness
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Dull racy menage
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
sticky filthpig
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
deranged stage
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
sticky filthpig
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
deranged stage
  06/20/24
both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make ...
nookie licker
  09/01/26
Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking t...
Richard Ames
  09/01/26
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Nudist ticket booth
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Glittery maniacal messiness
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Boyish dysfunction personal credit line
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Glittery maniacal messiness
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
cobalt principal's office
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Nudist ticket booth
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
cobalt principal's office
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
bipolar alpha
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opaque codepig
  06/19/24
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sepia jewess station
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Crystalline piazza
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Green Party Of The First Part
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Exciting theatre
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Carmine mildly autistic field mediation
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/19/24
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vigorous orchid chapel mental disorder
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
dun bonkers prole
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
sepia jewess station
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
sepia jewess station
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Angry bossy bawdyhouse nibblets
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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Glittery maniacal messiness
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

they just shot at it with guns they knew would do nothing then randomly decided to raid the cyberdyne lab then happened to drive to a fortuitous steel mill. they were really dumb as shit and got lucky and even then john and sarah ended up as fugitives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Buff Contagious Therapy

The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Big-titted home death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757940)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: motley old irish cottage international law enforcement agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757946)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: elite hunting ground

its basically invincible to physical damage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757973)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: dun bonkers prole

It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of very high temperature explosive on it. It ultimately melts in the molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Pungent Infuriating Casino

he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after getting frozen and shattered

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/c/c8/800px-T2T-1000glitch-1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090320213631

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t1000_glitch.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758073)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000using20thcenturytech.xlsb loaded in his head. one of the rows would have been to break into a steel mill and dump him in a vat of molten metal. they probably could have just gone way out to sea and threw him in the ocean. he'd do something dumb like shapeshift into a shark but then he'd be stuck in the water.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: sepia jewess station

Giant octopus would do it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760201)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760946)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: sepia jewess station

Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there's no way he could avoid chemical impurities IMHO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Titillating People Who Are Hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760192)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: Coiffed mood

That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you idiot. A very common one too - underdogs up against a seemingly unstoppable enemy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Chrome kitchen incel

save it for trivia, champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758072)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Boyish dysfunction personal credit line

the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridiculous 5,000 year jump in technology to the point of imaginary.

summer glau helped revive it, but only because of her acting and looks

t2 is just a lame fantasy kids movie. t1 was great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Buff Contagious Therapy

Youre gay, we get it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758269)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Thirsty zippy water buffalo voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759203)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Titillating People Who Are Hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760193)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: motley old irish cottage international law enforcement agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760988)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Overrated free-loading forum electric furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761935)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Violent magenta lodge

lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at least make the villain as cool as possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Boyish dysfunction personal credit line

that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some imaginary freddy krueger robot is not 'cool', it's lame.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Glittery maniacal messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759013)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: Dull racy menage

Wtf is a summer glau

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761039)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: sticky filthpig

(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterman*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761132)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: deranged stage

I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763660)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: sticky filthpig

Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in that era sucked at this :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: deranged stage

I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where the rich boss was a fake before they did the big reveal and for that show they paid for the episodes they just never aired them. Same era I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47764303)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:53 PM
Author: nookie licker

both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make any sense obviously. may as well make davey scitino be made of liquid metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#50109176)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Richard Ames

Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking to Big Ton'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: Nudist ticket booth

love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies

but this one isnt that compelling

bit like the death star shot -- they needed every single circumstance to break their way to stand a chance against invincible villain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Glittery maniacal messiness

Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where even after repeated obliteration from small arms and explosives the Terminator is still a threat until they find the fortuitous industrial press.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Boyish dysfunction personal credit line

yeah, no

oh, a robot can put itself back together vs

oh, a liquid metal imaginary shapeshifter can see, can fix itself, can rejoin, can become anything can...etc

incredibly lame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Glittery maniacal messiness

My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on them getting lucky on being near an industrial factory or whatever

Anyway, when you remember that The Terminator was initially conceived of (and plays out as) a slasher movie, then just think of T-800 as Michael or Jason, and T-1000 as Freddy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: cobalt principal's office

Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work anyway because the future they came from proved that they didn't die? idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Nudist ticket booth

Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicating a strong chance they failed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: cobalt principal's office

lmao just rip off back to the future?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759056)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: bipolar alpha

*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the gap*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761055)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: opaque codepig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761078)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: sepia jewess station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763081)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake

im not a phenotype expert like many on the board...

but Furlong, along with for example Wiley Wiggins from Dazed and Confused...

is an example of this weird type of guy who comes across as cool and charasmatic at about age 13 and then somehow devolves into a wretched loser by the time they are 18, never to return



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Crystalline piazza

Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly ruined T2. The fact that it's still watchable is a testament to how freaking sweet the rest of the movie is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Green Party Of The First Part

I’m gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759164)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Exciting theatre

The story is that they were so far behind in resources at that point in the future that recycling scraps like arnold was the best they could do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his cyborg head already except for ways to kill it. more plausible would be that it showed up out of nowhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Carmine mildly autistic field mediation

When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matter if you kill a T1000 or not? They'll just send another T1000 and then another until you die

As someone said, their only hope was go off the grid until judgement day



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761057)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: vigorous orchid chapel mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#49538001)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: dun bonkers prole

In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no one else could go through. That concept was abandoned by the second movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: sepia jewess station

The second movie actually takes place before the first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763086)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

movies that take place only slightly before/after the current year the movie was made are annoying. Road Trip is another example of that and it's confusing that it takes place in like 1996 instead of 1999.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: sepia jewess station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763774)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Road Trip where they're just a few years off so mailing VHS tapes even tho it was made in 2000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Angry bossy bawdyhouse nibblets

They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezing episode though. And that was well into the movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's mexican ranch then instead of coming up with a strategy, Sarah runs off like an idiot to kill Dyson then they parlay that into blowing up Cyberdyne

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Godawful Gaped Church Building Corn Cake

the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and over. but then sarah tards out and john decides they're going to go back into danger to save her.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Histrionic citrine parlour fanboi

Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood in T1 says this out loud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Glittery maniacal messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#47766116)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: nookie licker

then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems like a waste of effort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2)#50109169)