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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...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Startled maroon background story orchestra pit
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fishy ratface school
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vigorous rough-skinned shitlib library
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
aphrodisiac silver space
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
orchid soul-stirring regret
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Charismatic Awkward Love Of Her Life Locus
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disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Racy impertinent old irish cottage base
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Racy impertinent old irish cottage base
  06/19/24
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bat-shit-crazy titillating rigpig ape
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
180 step-uncle's house
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Zombie-like Chest-beating Pistol Gas Station
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Cerebral Shrine
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Startled maroon background story orchestra pit
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cream passionate juggernaut
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bat-shit-crazy titillating rigpig ape
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vigorous rough-skinned shitlib library
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excitant national security agency
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Startling Laughsome International Law Enforcement Agency Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Cerebral Shrine
  06/18/24
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Ruddy hot resort
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Scarlet doctorate stage
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Heady flatulent property karate
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
fuchsia exciting circlehead
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Heady flatulent property karate
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
fuchsia exciting circlehead
  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...
self-centered stead
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Ruddy hot resort
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Cerebral Shrine
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Ruddy hot resort
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
bat shit crazy becky
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
self-centered stead
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
bat shit crazy becky
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Flirting Hell
  06/19/24
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judgmental incel ticket booth
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Racy impertinent old irish cottage base
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Dashing reading party business firm
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Big Pozpig Chad
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Clear sweet tailpipe
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
White locale pisswyrm
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
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grizzly lascivious piazza
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
orchid soul-stirring regret
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Racy impertinent old irish cottage base
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Racy impertinent old irish cottage base
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Razzmatazz puppy
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman
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Ruddy hot resort
  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: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Startled maroon background story orchestra pit

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/en-en/#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: fishy ratface school



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: vigorous rough-skinned shitlib library



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: aphrodisiac silver space

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: orchid soul-stirring regret

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/en-en/#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Charismatic Awkward Love Of Her Life Locus

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/en-en/#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: Racy impertinent old irish cottage base

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: Racy impertinent old irish cottage base

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/en-en/#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy titillating rigpig ape



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: 180 step-uncle's house

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/en-en/#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Zombie-like Chest-beating Pistol Gas Station

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Cerebral Shrine

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/en-en/#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Startled maroon background story orchestra pit

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: cream passionate juggernaut



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy titillating rigpig ape



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: vigorous rough-skinned shitlib library



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: excitant national security agency



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Startling Laughsome International Law Enforcement Agency Scourge Upon The Earth

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/en-en/#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Cerebral Shrine

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/en-en/#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Ruddy hot resort



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: Scarlet doctorate stage

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Heady flatulent property karate

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: fuchsia exciting circlehead

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Heady flatulent property karate

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/en-en/#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: fuchsia exciting circlehead

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/en-en/#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/en-en/#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/en-en/#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: self-centered stead

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/en-en/#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Ruddy hot resort

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/en-en/#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Cerebral Shrine

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/en-en/#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Ruddy hot resort

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/en-en/#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: bat shit crazy becky

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/en-en/#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: self-centered stead

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/en-en/#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: bat shit crazy becky

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Flirting Hell

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: judgmental incel ticket booth



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: Racy impertinent old irish cottage base



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant

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/en-en/#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Dashing reading party business firm

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/en-en/#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Big Pozpig Chad

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Clear sweet tailpipe

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/en-en/#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: White locale pisswyrm

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/en-en/#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: grizzly lascivious piazza



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: orchid soul-stirring regret

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/en-en/#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Racy impertinent old irish cottage base

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: Racy impertinent old irish cottage base

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Razzmatazz puppy

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/en-en/#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: disgusting underhanded personal credit line legal warrant

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/en-en/#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Infuriating Fear-inspiring Patrolman

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/en-en/#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Ruddy hot resort



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