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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...
Electric hospital
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
painfully honest stirring office famous landscape painting
  06/18/24
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Chrome Concupiscible Water Buffalo Chad
  06/18/24
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Cruel-hearted Crusty Mad Cow Disease
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Gold judgmental volcanic crater
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
awkward boyish temple
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Henna exhilarant institution
  06/18/24
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Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Electric hospital
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
drunken sepia psychic place of business
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Electric hospital
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
drunken sepia psychic place of business
  06/19/24
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laughsome elite step-uncle's house dragon
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
flushed beady-eyed principal's office
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
passionate carmine garrison
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
painfully honest stirring office famous landscape painting
  06/18/24
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Dead aromatic faggot firefighter
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laughsome elite step-uncle's house dragon
  06/19/24
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Cruel-hearted Crusty Mad Cow Disease
  06/19/24
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Emerald senate
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
at-the-ready selfie school cafeteria
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan
  06/18/24
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talented jap elastic band
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
light adventurous piazza
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
cocky cobalt theater stage scourge upon the earth
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Honey-headed Hominid Range
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
cocky cobalt theater stage scourge upon the earth
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Honey-headed Hominid Range
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Idiotic Plaza Round Eye
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
talented jap elastic band
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
talented jap elastic band
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
impertinent persian
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Idiotic Plaza Round Eye
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
impertinent persian
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Cerise Bateful Mad-dog Skullcap
  06/19/24
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contagious factory reset button dog poop
  06/19/24
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drunken sepia psychic place of business
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Arousing Lake Gunner
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Frum Anal Toaster Useless Brakes
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
dull bipolar quadroon
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Electric hospital
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Stimulating bossy corner
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Electric hospital
  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...
awkward boyish temple
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
drunken sepia psychic place of business
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Electric hospital
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
drunken sepia psychic place of business
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Electric hospital
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
vibrant magical station stain
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Electric hospital
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty
  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: Electric hospital

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#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: painfully honest stirring office famous landscape painting

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#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Chrome Concupiscible Water Buffalo Chad



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Crusty Mad Cow Disease



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Gold judgmental volcanic crater

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: awkward boyish temple

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#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Henna exhilarant institution

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#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: drunken sepia psychic place of business

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Electric hospital

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: drunken sepia psychic place of business

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#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: laughsome elite step-uncle's house dragon



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: flushed beady-eyed principal's office

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#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: passionate carmine garrison

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan

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#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: painfully honest stirring office famous landscape painting

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Dead aromatic faggot firefighter



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: laughsome elite step-uncle's house dragon



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Crusty Mad Cow Disease



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Emerald senate



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: at-the-ready selfie school cafeteria

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#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan

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#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: talented jap elastic band



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: light adventurous piazza

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: cocky cobalt theater stage scourge upon the earth

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Honey-headed Hominid Range

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: cocky cobalt theater stage scourge upon the earth

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#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Honey-headed Hominid Range

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#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: Idiotic Plaza Round Eye

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#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: talented jap elastic band

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#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: ruby thriller electric furnace coldplay fan

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#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: talented jap elastic band

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#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: impertinent persian

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#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Idiotic Plaza Round Eye

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#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: impertinent persian

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Cerise Bateful Mad-dog Skullcap

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: contagious factory reset button dog poop



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: drunken sepia psychic place of business



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty

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#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Arousing Lake Gunner

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#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Frum Anal Toaster Useless Brakes

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: dull bipolar quadroon

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#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Stimulating bossy corner

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#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Electric hospital

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: awkward boyish temple

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#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: drunken sepia psychic place of business

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: drunken sepia psychic place of business

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: vibrant magical station stain

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#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Charismatic Rough-skinned Tanning Salon Kitty

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#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Electric hospital

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#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: talented jap elastic band



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