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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...
aggressive hell
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
sexy theater stage dysfunction
  06/18/24
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hyperventilating big-titted step-uncle's house digit ratio
  06/18/24
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Talented indirect expression
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Doobsian Cheese-eating Ticket Booth Ratface
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Motley indian lodge affirmative action
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Soul-stirring clown area
  06/18/24
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Mahogany national mental disorder
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
aggressive hell
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Hyperactive theater
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
aggressive hell
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Hyperactive theater
  06/19/24
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180 messiness
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
Aquamarine circlehead organic girlfriend
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Sinister Shrine Sweet Tailpipe
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Irate son of senegal place of business
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
sexy theater stage dysfunction
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Khaki trailer park macaca
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180 messiness
  06/19/24
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Talented indirect expression
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Offensive location new version
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
histrionic bbw
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Irate son of senegal place of business
  06/18/24
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Submissive resort
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
electric cerise public bath
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
brindle elastic band
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Buck-toothed round eye field
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
brindle elastic band
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Buck-toothed round eye field
  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...
At-the-ready gas station
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Submissive resort
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Irate son of senegal place of business
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Submissive resort
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
Aromatic crawly lay kitty cat
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
At-the-ready gas station
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
Aromatic crawly lay kitty cat
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
lemon boiling water
  06/19/24
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Concupiscible chad
  06/19/24
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Hyperactive theater
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Mahogany national mental disorder
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Aphrodisiac Mad Cow Disease
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Purple irradiated kitchen
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
bright razzle state jewess
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
aggressive hell
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
heady university
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
aggressive hell
  06/19/24
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Passionate outnumbered patrolman
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
Motley indian lodge affirmative action
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Hyperactive theater
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
aggressive hell
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Hyperactive theater
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
aggressive hell
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Boyish Carnelian Orchestra Pit Doctorate
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
aggressive hell
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Mahogany national mental disorder
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
aggressive hell
  06/20/24
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Submissive resort
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
nookie licker
  09/01/26


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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: sexy theater stage dysfunction

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: hyperventilating big-titted step-uncle's house digit ratio



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Talented indirect expression



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Doobsian Cheese-eating Ticket Booth Ratface

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Motley indian lodge affirmative action

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=2E#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Soul-stirring clown area

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=2E#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Mahogany national mental disorder



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: Hyperactive theater

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: aggressive hell

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: Hyperactive theater

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=2E#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: 180 messiness



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: Aquamarine circlehead organic girlfriend

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=2E#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Sinister Shrine Sweet Tailpipe

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Irate son of senegal place of business

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=2E#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: sexy theater stage dysfunction

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Khaki trailer park macaca



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: 180 messiness



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Talented indirect expression



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Offensive location new version



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: histrionic bbw

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=2E#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Irate son of senegal place of business

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=2E#47758954)



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



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: electric cerise public bath

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: brindle elastic band

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Buck-toothed round eye field

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: brindle elastic band

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=2E#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Buck-toothed round eye field

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=2E#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=2E#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=2E#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: At-the-ready gas station

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=2E#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Submissive 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=2E#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Irate son of senegal place of business

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=2E#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Submissive 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=2E#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: Aromatic crawly lay kitty cat

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=2E#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: At-the-ready gas station

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=2E#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: Aromatic crawly lay kitty cat

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: lemon boiling water

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Concupiscible chad



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: Hyperactive theater



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Mahogany national mental disorder

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=2E#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Mad Cow Disease

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=2E#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Purple irradiated kitchen

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: bright razzle state jewess

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=2E#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: heady university

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=2E#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: aggressive hell

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Passionate outnumbered patrolman



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Motley indian lodge affirmative action

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=2E#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Hyperactive theater

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: Hyperactive theater

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Boyish Carnelian Orchestra Pit Doctorate

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=2E#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Mahogany national mental disorder

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=2E#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: aggressive hell

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=2E#47764288)



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



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