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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...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
umber queen of the night giraffe
  06/18/24
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Titillating school pozpig
  06/18/24
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Green knife
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Lilac house-broken hall roast beef
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Buck-toothed University
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Provocative forum
  06/18/24
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carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
dull lettuce
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
dull lettuce
  06/19/24
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Seedy Den Chad
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
beta love of her life
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Brilliant stock car sanctuary
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
stirring burgundy new version gas station
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
umber queen of the night giraffe
  06/18/24
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flirting hospital
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Seedy Den Chad
  06/19/24
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Green knife
  06/19/24
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Sadistic nursing home
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Adventurous Sepia Masturbator Affirmative Action
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
stirring burgundy new version gas station
  06/18/24
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Razzle bipolar skinny woman church
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Transparent Insane Wagecucks
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Swashbuckling up-to-no-good set dysfunction
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Gold domesticated karate
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Swashbuckling up-to-no-good set dysfunction
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Gold domesticated karate
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
cerebral chrome associate
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Razzle bipolar skinny woman church
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
stirring burgundy new version gas station
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Razzle bipolar skinny woman church
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
azure effete stage organic girlfriend
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
cerebral chrome associate
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
azure effete stage organic girlfriend
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
swollen contagious parlor dog poop
  06/19/24
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spectacular hot sneaky criminal box office
  06/19/24
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dull lettuce
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Glassy indian lodge
  06/20/24
I’m gay
crystalline shitlib
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
submissive house
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
comical wild gaping internal respiration
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
bonkers shrine circlehead
  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...
Buck-toothed University
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
dull lettuce
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
dull lettuce
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Sable Cuck Sandwich
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
bonkers shrine circlehead
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: umber queen of the night giraffe

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\u0026show=posted#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Titillating school pozpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47757940)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Green knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47757946)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Lilac house-broken hall roast beef

its basically invincible to physical damage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47757973)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Buck-toothed University

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\u0026show=posted#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Provocative forum

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\u0026show=posted#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47758073)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: dull lettuce

Giant octopus would do it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47760201)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47760946)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: dull lettuce

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\u0026show=posted#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Seedy Den Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47760192)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: beta love of her life

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\u0026show=posted#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Brilliant stock car sanctuary

save it for trivia, champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47758072)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: stirring burgundy new version gas station

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\u0026show=posted#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: umber queen of the night giraffe

Youre gay, we get it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47758269)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: flirting hospital



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47759203)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Seedy Den Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47760193)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Green knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47760988)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Sadistic nursing home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47761935)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Adventurous Sepia Masturbator Affirmative Action

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\u0026show=posted#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: stirring burgundy new version gas station

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\u0026show=posted#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Razzle bipolar skinny woman church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47759013)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: Transparent Insane Wagecucks

Wtf is a summer glau

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47761039)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Swashbuckling up-to-no-good set dysfunction

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47761132)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Gold domesticated karate

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47763660)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Swashbuckling up-to-no-good set dysfunction

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\u0026show=posted#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Gold domesticated karate

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\u0026show=posted#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: cerebral chrome associate

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\u0026show=posted#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Razzle bipolar skinny woman church

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\u0026show=posted#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: stirring burgundy new version gas station

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\u0026show=posted#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Razzle bipolar skinny woman church

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\u0026show=posted#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: azure effete stage organic girlfriend

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\u0026show=posted#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: cerebral chrome associate

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\u0026show=posted#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: azure effete stage organic girlfriend

lmao just rip off back to the future?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47759056)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: swollen contagious parlor dog poop

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47761055)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: spectacular hot sneaky criminal box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47761078)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: dull lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47763081)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard

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\u0026show=posted#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Glassy indian lodge

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\u0026show=posted#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: crystalline shitlib

I’m gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47759164)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: submissive house

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\u0026show=posted#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: comical wild gaping internal respiration

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\u0026show=posted#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#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\u0026show=posted#49538001)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Buck-toothed University

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\u0026show=posted#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: dull lettuce

The second movie actually takes place before the first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47763086)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: dull lettuce

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47763774)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Sable Cuck Sandwich

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\u0026show=posted#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: carnelian slap-happy church building gay wizard

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\u0026show=posted#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: bonkers shrine circlehead

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\u0026show=posted#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Razzle bipolar skinny woman church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2\u0026show=posted#47766116)