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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...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Stirring chestnut dopamine
  06/18/24
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fantasy-prone candlestick maker
  06/18/24
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splenetic ape library
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Magical Field
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
concupiscible indecent sandwich lay
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Exhilarant Sexy Friendly Grandma
  06/18/24
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Glassy national security agency
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
aqua base
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
aqua base
  06/19/24
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Azure water buffalo site
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
Laughsome home
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
boyish stain yarmulke
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Crystalline crawly abode boistinker
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Stirring chestnut dopamine
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Frisky scarlet fortuitous meteor ceo
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Azure water buffalo site
  06/19/24
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splenetic ape library
  06/19/24
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topaz theatre scourge upon the earth
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
violent theater
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Crystalline crawly abode boistinker
  06/18/24
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Sooty property
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
carnelian tripping codepig locale
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
buff abnormal windowlicker
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Fuchsia titillating area preventive strike
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
buff abnormal windowlicker
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Fuchsia titillating area preventive strike
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
razzle plum bawdyhouse mother
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Sooty property
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Crystalline crawly abode boistinker
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Sooty property
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
Shaky aphrodisiac chapel philosopher-king
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
razzle plum bawdyhouse mother
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
Shaky aphrodisiac chapel philosopher-king
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
hairraiser native
  06/19/24
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thriller flickering international law enforcement agency
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aqua base
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Glassy national security agency
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
odious alcoholic forum mad-dog skullcap
  06/20/24
I’m gay
bearded arousing cumskin
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Crimson Garrison
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Greedy ungodly lodge factory reset button
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Violet twisted nursing home
  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...
concupiscible indecent sandwich lay
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
aqua base
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
aqua base
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
mustard vengeful state
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Violet twisted nursing home
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Glassy national security agency
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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Sooty property
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Stirring chestnut dopamine

The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2Ã#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: fantasy-prone candlestick maker



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: splenetic ape library



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Magical Field

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: concupiscible indecent sandwich lay

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=2Ã#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Exhilarant Sexy Friendly Grandma

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=2Ã#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Glassy national security agency



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: aqua base

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: aqua base

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=2Ã#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Azure water buffalo site



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: Laughsome home

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=2Ã#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: boyish stain yarmulke

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Crystalline crawly abode boistinker

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=2Ã#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Stirring chestnut dopamine

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Frisky scarlet fortuitous meteor ceo



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Azure water buffalo site



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: splenetic ape library



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: topaz theatre scourge upon the earth



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: violent theater

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=2Ã#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Crystalline crawly abode boistinker

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=2Ã#47758954)



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



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: carnelian tripping codepig locale

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: buff abnormal windowlicker

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Fuchsia titillating area preventive strike

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: buff abnormal windowlicker

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=2Ã#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Fuchsia titillating area preventive strike

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=2Ã#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: razzle plum bawdyhouse mother

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=2Ã#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Sooty 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=2Ã#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Crystalline crawly abode boistinker

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=2Ã#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Sooty 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=2Ã#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: Shaky aphrodisiac chapel philosopher-king

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=2Ã#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: razzle plum bawdyhouse mother

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=2Ã#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: Shaky aphrodisiac chapel philosopher-king

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: hairraiser native

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: thriller flickering international law enforcement agency



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: aqua base



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Glassy national security agency

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=2Ã#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: odious alcoholic forum mad-dog skullcap

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=2Ã#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: bearded arousing cumskin

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Crimson Garrison

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=2Ã#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Greedy ungodly lodge factory reset button

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=2Ã#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: concupiscible indecent sandwich lay

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=2Ã#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: aqua base

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: aqua base

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: mustard vengeful state

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=2Ã#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Glassy national security agency

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=2Ã#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Violet twisted nursing home

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=2Ã#47764288)



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



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