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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 red plaza digit ratio
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Heady goyim station
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Light international law enforcement agency antidepressant drug
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Mint misanthropic preventive strike corn cake
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Blue talented candlestick maker nursing home
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Diverse flatulent business firm mood
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Nudist tanning salon liquid oxygen
  06/18/24
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Soul-stirring alpha
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
exciting yarmulke locale
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
exciting yarmulke locale
  06/19/24
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fuchsia step-uncle's house dysfunction
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
carmine dashing rehab shitlib
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
lascivious skinny woman
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Offensive gaping
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Heady goyim station
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Mustard razzmatazz location french chef
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fuchsia step-uncle's house dysfunction
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Mint misanthropic preventive strike corn cake
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Brindle Trip Fortuitous Meteor
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
frisky selfie
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Offensive gaping
  06/18/24
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Concupiscible dog poop brunch
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Vivacious sanctuary indirect expression
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Claret gunner pistol
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
sapphire spot
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Claret gunner pistol
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
sapphire spot
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Cyan state fat ankles
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Concupiscible dog poop brunch
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Offensive gaping
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Concupiscible dog poop brunch
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
lilac electric stage
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Cyan state fat ankles
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
lilac electric stage
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Sinister Dilemma Reading Party
  06/19/24
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Stimulating den regret
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exciting yarmulke locale
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Soul-stirring alpha
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Translucent medicated library
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Slap-happy becky pisswyrm
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
indigo kink-friendly halford trust fund
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
bateful chartreuse property pocket flask
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
curious red plaza digit ratio
  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...
Diverse flatulent business firm mood
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
exciting yarmulke locale
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
exciting yarmulke locale
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Fishy territorial institution
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
curious red plaza digit ratio
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Soul-stirring alpha
  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: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Heady goyim station

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Light international law enforcement agency antidepressant drug



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Mint misanthropic preventive strike corn cake



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Blue talented candlestick maker nursing home

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Diverse flatulent business firm mood

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=2Elisa#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Nudist tanning salon liquid oxygen

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=2Elisa#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Soul-stirring alpha



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: exciting yarmulke locale

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: exciting yarmulke locale

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=2Elisa#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: fuchsia step-uncle's house dysfunction



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: carmine dashing rehab shitlib

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=2Elisa#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: lascivious skinny woman

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Offensive gaping

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=2Elisa#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Heady goyim station

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Mustard razzmatazz location french chef



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: fuchsia step-uncle's house dysfunction



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Mint misanthropic preventive strike corn cake



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Brindle Trip Fortuitous Meteor



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: frisky selfie

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=2Elisa#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Offensive gaping

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=2Elisa#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Concupiscible dog poop brunch



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: Vivacious sanctuary indirect expression

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Claret gunner pistol

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: sapphire spot

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Claret gunner pistol

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=2Elisa#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: sapphire spot

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=2Elisa#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: Cyan state fat ankles

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=2Elisa#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Concupiscible dog poop brunch

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=2Elisa#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Offensive gaping

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=2Elisa#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Concupiscible dog poop brunch

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=2Elisa#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: lilac electric stage

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=2Elisa#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Cyan state fat ankles

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=2Elisa#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: lilac electric stage

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Sinister Dilemma Reading Party

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Stimulating den regret



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: exciting yarmulke locale



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Soul-stirring alpha

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=2Elisa#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Translucent medicated library

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=2Elisa#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Slap-happy becky pisswyrm

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: indigo kink-friendly halford trust fund

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=2Elisa#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: bateful chartreuse property pocket flask

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=2Elisa#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Diverse flatulent business firm mood

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=2Elisa#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: exciting yarmulke locale

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: exciting yarmulke locale

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Fishy territorial institution

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=2Elisa#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Soul-stirring alpha

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=2Elisa#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: curious red plaza digit ratio

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=2Elisa#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Concupiscible dog poop brunch



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