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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...
curious hominid public bath
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
salmon odious pit indirect expression
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demanding locale place of business
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Comical cyan fanboi parlor
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
beady-eyed disturbing filthpig
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
gaped glittery mediation
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
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autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
curious hominid public bath
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Poppy Know-it-all Lodge
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
curious hominid public bath
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Poppy Know-it-all Lodge
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razzle sound barrier
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
lake well-lubricated famous landscape painting
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Pale aromatic property
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Cheese-eating bawdyhouse
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
salmon odious pit indirect expression
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razzle sound barrier
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Comical cyan fanboi parlor
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Maroon wonderful location chad
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
burgundy step-uncle's house
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Cheese-eating bawdyhouse
  06/18/24
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excitant hateful yarmulke
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
charismatic stock car
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Onyx Personal Credit Line
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Exciting stage skinny woman
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Onyx Personal Credit Line
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Exciting stage skinny woman
  06/20/24
both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make ...
retarded tranny pedophile
  09/01/26
Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking t...
Richard Ames
  09/01/26
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Transparent wild legal warrant codepig
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
excitant hateful yarmulke
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Cheese-eating bawdyhouse
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
excitant hateful yarmulke
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
adventurous pocket flask rigpig
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Transparent wild legal warrant codepig
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
adventurous pocket flask rigpig
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
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mind-boggling center volcanic crater
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Poppy Know-it-all Lodge
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
ruddy aphrodisiac bbw
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Sadistic corner
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Misunderstood water buffalo
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
curious hominid public bath
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Embarrassed to the bone talented clown menage
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
curious hominid public bath
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bronze spectacular plaza
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
gaped glittery mediation
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Poppy Know-it-all Lodge
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
curious hominid public bath
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Poppy Know-it-all Lodge
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
curious hominid public bath
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Nofapping Trip Indian Lodge Friendly Grandma
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
curious hominid public bath
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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excitant hateful yarmulke
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: curious hominid public bath

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: salmon odious pit indirect expression

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: demanding locale place of business



(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: Comical cyan fanboi parlor



(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: beady-eyed disturbing filthpig

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: gaped glittery mediation

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: Submissive business firm

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: autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary



(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: curious hominid public bath

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: Poppy Know-it-all Lodge

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: curious hominid public bath

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: Poppy Know-it-all Lodge

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: razzle sound barrier



(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: lake well-lubricated famous landscape painting

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: Pale aromatic property

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: Cheese-eating bawdyhouse

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: salmon odious pit indirect expression

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: unhinged point masturbator



(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: razzle sound barrier



(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: Comical cyan fanboi parlor



(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: Maroon wonderful location chad



(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: burgundy step-uncle's house

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: Cheese-eating bawdyhouse

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: excitant hateful yarmulke



(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: charismatic stock car

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: Onyx Personal Credit Line

(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: Exciting stage skinny woman

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: Onyx Personal Credit Line

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: Exciting stage skinny woman

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: September 1st, 2026 2:53 PM
Author: retarded tranny pedophile

both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make any sense obviously. may as well make davey scitino be made of liquid metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2,#50109176)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Richard Ames

Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking to Big Ton'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2,#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: Transparent wild legal warrant codepig

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: excitant hateful yarmulke

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: Cheese-eating bawdyhouse

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: excitant hateful yarmulke

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: adventurous pocket flask rigpig

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: Transparent wild legal warrant codepig

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: adventurous pocket flask rigpig

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: slap-happy spot

*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: mind-boggling center volcanic crater



(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: Poppy Know-it-all Lodge



(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: autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary

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: ruddy aphrodisiac bbw

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: Sadistic corner

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: Misunderstood water buffalo

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: curious hominid public bath

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: Embarrassed to the bone talented clown menage

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: curious hominid public bath

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: bronze spectacular plaza



(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: gaped glittery mediation

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: Poppy Know-it-all Lodge

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: curious hominid public bath

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: Poppy Know-it-all Lodge

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: curious hominid public bath

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: Nofapping Trip Indian Lodge Friendly Grandma

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: curious hominid public bath

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: autistic marvelous hairy legs sanctuary

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: curious hominid public bath

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: excitant hateful yarmulke



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



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: retarded tranny pedophile

then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems like a waste of effort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2,#50109169)