Timeline for Why would the Terminator ask for a weapon that surely only exists in the distant future?
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| Apr 6, 2017 at 5:42 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | This is a great answer to a question which seemed unanswerable at first... | |
| Jun 9, 2012 at 20:29 | comment | added | K-H-W | @Jeff - Here; the commentary about the following scenes, talking about what the chip does and so forth. | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 19:16 | comment | added | user1027 | @Jeff I really wish they'd left that in, but man, John's on quite the high horse there. | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | Jeff | @Keen: Here's the scene on YouTube, straight off of the DVD. Includese the insufferable brat whining, so be warned. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 16:03 | comment | added | user1027 | @Xantec Yeah, I remember the 'are we learning yet', but I've never seen the 'Skynet sets us to read-only' bit. I fully admit inserting the 'read-only' bit makes the 'are we learning yet' make much more sense. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 15:47 | comment | added | Xantec | @Keen the full scene is deleted, but somewhere around then in the theatrical release it is spoken about, and then the later scene when the Terminator hot wires the wagon John asks "Are we learning yet?" (IMDB Quote) | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 15:22 | comment | added | user1027 | @MarkRogers 15+ years ago (ugh, I'm old), when these movies were made, computer storage was much more limited, so it makes sense that they'd not predict that a Terminator could take multiple terabytes of information with them. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 14:54 | comment | added | Mark Rogers | The most efficient Navy Seal assassins are trained with knowledge of every kind of weapon the military can fit into their brains. I don't see why Skynet wouldn't do the same with a terminator. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 14:52 | comment | added | user1027 | @Xantec Huh, I did a google search and see a transcript with a scene where he says that and they perform some surgery to enable the switch. I'm pretty sure that scene isn't in the DVDs I've watched. This indicates the surgery was in a deleted scene. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 14:30 | comment | added | Xantec | @Keen no, it was Terminator 2 in the gas station garage scene, shortly after they break Sarah Conor from the hospital. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:45 | comment | added | Jeff | @Xantec: I'd think "list of available weapons" would have been included...though it COULD save space to instead say "acquire weapons from 'gun store' located from phone book". In any case, it's also possible that in the Terminator reality, the military was already experimenting with such weapons at or around the target date, and they were expected on the civilian market soon(ish) | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:45 | comment | added | user1027 | @Xantec I thought that was explained in Terminator 3. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:42 | comment | added | Xantec | To add to the early part of your answer: the Terminator units were "dumb" machines. As explained in Terminator 2, Skynet would give the Terminators basic programming sufficient to complete their tasks, lock their learning switch, and then let them loose. Even if the history of when weapons existed was known by Skynet that information likely would not have been imparted to a Terminator unit as it wouldn't be pertinent to its task. | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:31 | history | edited | Jeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:21 | history | answered | Jeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |