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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...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
chocolate hall
  06/18/24
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Shivering aphrodisiac azn
  06/18/24
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High-end rusted weed whacker
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
cracking scarlet jap philosopher-king
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
contagious sadistic death wish
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
cruel-hearted house
  06/18/24
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vivacious aqua sound barrier
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Dashing principal's office elastic band
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
exciting coldplay fan
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Dashing principal's office elastic band
  06/19/24
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Cyan tripping gay wizard sandwich
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
charismatic frum faggot firefighter meetinghouse
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Slap-happy rigpig
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Hairraiser stag film
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
chocolate hall
  06/18/24
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Fear-inspiring pistol degenerate
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Cyan tripping gay wizard sandwich
  06/19/24
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High-end rusted weed whacker
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Excitant Jewess
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Milky Costumed Locale
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Hairraiser stag film
  06/18/24
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Out-of-control half-breed private investor
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
bright station
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Titillating mahogany church building dragon
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Unhinged massive mad-dog skullcap tank
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Titillating mahogany church building dragon
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Unhinged massive mad-dog skullcap tank
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Hyperventilating clown senate
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Out-of-control half-breed private investor
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Hairraiser stag film
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Out-of-control half-breed private investor
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
Fighting frozen fanboi
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Hyperventilating clown senate
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
Fighting frozen fanboi
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Green Bipolar Quadroon
  06/19/24
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Concupiscible Area Stain
  06/19/24
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Dashing principal's office elastic band
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
vivacious aqua sound barrier
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Passionate Cowardly Codepig
  06/20/24
I’m gay
histrionic sneaky criminal heaven
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
zombie-like business firm
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
khaki locus
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
exciting coldplay fan
  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...
contagious sadistic death wish
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Dashing principal's office elastic band
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Dashing principal's office elastic band
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Insecure rehab scourge upon the earth
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
exciting coldplay fan
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
vivacious aqua sound barrier
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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  06/20/24
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  06/21/24


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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: exciting coldplay fan

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: chocolate hall

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: Shivering aphrodisiac azn



(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: High-end rusted weed whacker



(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: cracking scarlet jap philosopher-king

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: contagious sadistic death wish

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: cruel-hearted house

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: vivacious aqua sound barrier



(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: exciting coldplay fan

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: Dashing principal's office elastic band

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: Dashing principal's office elastic band

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: Cyan tripping gay wizard sandwich



(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: charismatic frum faggot firefighter meetinghouse

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: Slap-happy rigpig

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: Hairraiser stag film

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: chocolate hall

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: Fear-inspiring pistol degenerate



(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: Cyan tripping gay wizard sandwich



(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: High-end rusted weed whacker



(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: Excitant Jewess



(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: Milky Costumed Locale

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: Hairraiser stag film

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: Out-of-control half-breed private investor



(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: bright station

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: Titillating mahogany church building dragon

(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: Unhinged massive mad-dog skullcap tank

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: Titillating mahogany church building dragon

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: Unhinged massive mad-dog skullcap tank

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: Hyperventilating clown senate

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: Out-of-control half-breed private investor

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: Hairraiser stag film

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: Out-of-control half-breed private investor

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: Fighting frozen fanboi

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: Hyperventilating clown senate

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: Fighting frozen fanboi

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: Green Bipolar Quadroon

*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: Concupiscible Area Stain



(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: Dashing principal's office elastic band



(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: vivacious aqua sound barrier

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: Passionate Cowardly Codepig

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: histrionic sneaky criminal heaven

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: zombie-like business firm

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: khaki locus

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: contagious sadistic death wish

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: Dashing principal's office elastic band

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: Dashing principal's office elastic band

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: Insecure rehab scourge upon the earth

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: vivacious aqua sound barrier

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: exciting coldplay fan

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: Out-of-control half-breed private investor



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