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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...
amethyst range ape
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Aromatic friendly grandma
  06/18/24
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fragrant stead
  06/18/24
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excitant erotic brethren water buffalo
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
ultramarine ratface
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Stirring locale
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Plum naked kitchen
  06/18/24
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Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
amethyst range ape
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
medicated locus
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
amethyst range ape
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
medicated locus
  06/19/24
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Histrionic clown chapel
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
topaz supple heaven
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Hyperventilating Space Striped Hyena
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
hot nursing home police squad
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Aromatic friendly grandma
  06/18/24
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mildly autistic dopamine
  06/18/24
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Histrionic clown chapel
  06/19/24
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excitant erotic brethren water buffalo
  06/19/24
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Jet Personal Credit Line New Version
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Offensive Flickering Cruise Ship Corn Cake
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
hot nursing home police squad
  06/18/24
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Purple property
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Garnet mental disorder
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Pungent plaza
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Marvelous mediation
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Pungent plaza
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Marvelous mediation
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
soul-stirring alcoholic site death wish
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Purple property
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
hot nursing home police squad
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Purple property
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
Flesh electric sex offender
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
soul-stirring alcoholic site death wish
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
Flesh electric sex offender
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Henna outnumbered theatre fortuitous meteor
  06/19/24
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heady philosopher-king
  06/19/24
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medicated locus
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Lascivious haunting whorehouse kitty
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Nighttime lodge partner
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Translucent Swashbuckling Nibblets
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
amethyst range ape
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
mustard rambunctious stag film
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
amethyst range ape
  06/19/24
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Athlete?s Foot
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
Stirring locale
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
medicated locus
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
amethyst range ape
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
medicated locus
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
amethyst range ape
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Insanely creepy psychic
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
amethyst range ape
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
amethyst range ape
  06/20/24
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Purple property
  06/21/24


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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Aromatic friendly grandma

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\u0026hid=#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: fragrant stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47757940)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: excitant erotic brethren water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47757946)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: ultramarine ratface

its basically invincible to physical damage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47757973)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Stirring locale

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\u0026hid=#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Plum naked kitchen

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\u0026hid=#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47758073)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: medicated locus

Giant octopus would do it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47760201)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: amethyst range ape

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47760946)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: medicated locus

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\u0026hid=#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Histrionic clown chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47760192)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: topaz supple heaven

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\u0026hid=#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Hyperventilating Space Striped Hyena

save it for trivia, champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47758072)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: hot nursing home police squad

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\u0026hid=#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Aromatic friendly grandma

Youre gay, we get it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47758269)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: mildly autistic dopamine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47759203)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Histrionic clown chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47760193)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: excitant erotic brethren water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47760988)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Jet Personal Credit Line New Version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761935)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Offensive Flickering Cruise Ship Corn Cake

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\u0026hid=#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: hot nursing home police squad

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\u0026hid=#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Purple property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47759013)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: Garnet mental disorder

Wtf is a summer glau

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761039)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Pungent plaza

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761132)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Marvelous mediation

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47763660)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Pungent plaza

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\u0026hid=#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Marvelous mediation

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\u0026hid=#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: soul-stirring alcoholic site death wish

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\u0026hid=#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Purple property

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\u0026hid=#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: hot nursing home police squad

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\u0026hid=#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Purple property

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\u0026hid=#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: Flesh electric sex offender

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\u0026hid=#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: soul-stirring alcoholic site death wish

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\u0026hid=#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: Flesh electric sex offender

lmao just rip off back to the future?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47759056)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Henna outnumbered theatre fortuitous meteor

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761055)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: heady philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761078)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: medicated locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47763081)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage

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\u0026hid=#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Lascivious haunting whorehouse kitty

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\u0026hid=#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Nighttime lodge partner

I’m gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47759164)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Translucent Swashbuckling Nibblets

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\u0026hid=#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: mustard rambunctious stag film

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\u0026hid=#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: amethyst range ape

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47761057)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Athlete?s Foot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49538001)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Stirring locale

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\u0026hid=#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: medicated locus

The second movie actually takes place before the first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47763086)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: medicated locus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47763774)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Insanely creepy psychic

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\u0026hid=#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Aquamarine party of the first part blood rage

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\u0026hid=#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: amethyst range ape

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\u0026hid=#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Purple property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#47766116)