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Gee, I must have fell asleep for the part of the movie when the Terminator sat down and gave a lecture on about the construction details and design history of the T-700 through T (million?) Due to that slow Austrian speech pattern, I must have only managed to stay awake for the morning lecture on plasma weapons, my mistake.
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If Reese said that the Arnie model was new... and that there only appeared to be 10 minus 1 models in that unseen T2 footage... how would they know about that new model. Only 1 had been activated at that point - and that was to go back and track Sarah Conner/Reese.
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Mucus: "I must have fell asleep for the part of the movie when the Terminator sat down and gave a lecture on about the construction details and design history of the T-700 through T (million?)"
That info comes from the rebel fighters, not contemporary time. They probably have an R&D crew that knows much about the enemy.
But I think most of that "Expanded Universe"-stuff from that page is taken from the Terminator role playing game, I found some site dedicated to that too, whilst searching for Hunter-Killer Tank info.
Hey, did you know a RBG-80 laser cannon does 10d10 damage and weighs 80 pounds?
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Mucus, you must have fallen asleep through half the movie since Kyle spends a good deal of time recounting how Skynet was defeated and how much he knows about the T-800s.
AndrewR, the T-800s are new, not necessarily the Arnold model. In-fact "Model-101" would seam to indicate that it's one of the first. Be sure that you're not confusing model for production series, Reese was aware of the new 800 series with the human flesh since he encountered at least one infiltrator in the future. The Arnold model is just that, a model of the 800 series that looks an Austrian body builder. Just like the model-102 looks like an Italian American boxer and the 103 looks like a short man from Brussels.
Also those were just the Terminators that were being stored at the Temporal Displacement Complex, it is a big planet and I'm sure Skynet had lots of Cyborg storage facilities all over the place.
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Here's my question: how can there be a T3? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought the reason that Skynet existed in the first place was because a contemporary company found the remains of the first Terminator, and the tech they based off of that eventually resulted in Skynet. Since the tech was destroyed (except for part of Arnie's arm in the factory) at the end of T2 ... please, fill in the blanks for me
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Well I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.
I will say this however; I've always thought that the biggest plot hole of T2 is that supposedly all the records and research material of the entire project is kept within just that one building. They must have had off-site backups, probably ones that Dyson wasn't aware of. Enough materials maybe to continue the work he started. Remember that Dyson was "just" the head researcher, a scientist and not a company executive so he might not have been in the loop about what else Cyberdyne were up to with his work.
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Yeah, Skynet existed when it did because of the technology brought back in time. But Skynet would have existed anyway, just later. Read the site I posted.
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Well they have a money maker on their hands and so a 3rd movie just has to be made. The original ending for T2 was a narrative diary of Sarah as she watched John and his daughter play in the park. She says that 1997 came and went with no judgement day and that the future looks bright.
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Yea, but Sarah was put in the nut house remember? I bet she just dreamed it all up.
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She says that 1997 came and went with no judgement day and that the future looks bright.
Ah, but she also said that he was spending his time in Congress fighting the Skynet funding bill, IIRC. Skynet tech seems to be an inevitable evolution of current tech, as far as the movies go.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: But I think most of that "Expanded Universe"-stuff from that page is taken from the Terminator role playing game, I found some site dedicated to that too, whilst searching for Hunter-Killer Tank info.
Terminator RPG? Are we talking Warhammer 40,000 style role playing game here, complete with little painted models or are we talking about grown men dressing up like the terminator and doing their best Arnie impersonations in an Internet chat room? ...actually, I don't know which one would be more fun to watch and make fun of anymore
Oh yeah, judging by the movie trailer for T3, either that Congress stuff happens much later, or it doesn't happen at all anymore. (assuming I'm identifying the right actor as John Conner) IIRC, the actor doesn't look all that old...hmmm, imdb.com says he's 18.
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