How did the t-1000 time travel...not organic?!

[cayman shen]

OK, in Terminator, wasn't it that nothing inorganic could time travel? But the Terminator could because he was covered in organic flesh? But the t-1000 isn't organic at all, just liquid, color changing metal. How'd he pull it off? (Same was as the skull in TSCC? If you can explain that :rolleyes)

 

[achilles266]

I guess we just have to believe that the T-1000 is able to modify its molecules, "cell's" into taking up a flesh like form, cause im pretty sure when the T-1000 was walking around the mall if he was just painted metal wouldn't he be abit reflective and him being a police man he would stand out alot lol.

Cheers Dan

OK, in Terminator, wasn't it that nothing inorganic could time travel? But the Terminator could because he was covered in organic flesh? But the t-1000 isn't organic at all, just liquid, color changing metal. How'd he pull it off? (Same was as the skull in TSCC? If you can explain that :rolleyes)

 

[Solo4114]

Or Reese was wrong.

 

[SSgt Burton]

Becuase James Cameron said so.


Sorry for being flippant.

This is just one of those things (of several) that make no sense despite all the "suspension of disbelief".

How does liquid metal even work? It has no inner mechanisms. At least the T-X in T3 made some sense as the liquid metal was just its skin and not its entire freaking body. :rolleyes

For an "in-universe" answer, I suppose the T-1000 could mimic skin so closely that it "fooled" the time displacement equipment into thinking it was transporting something organic.

Really this is another plot hole in itself- why would the machines build a device that could only transport organic living objects? :rolleyes

Of course the "real" answer was so that Reese (or the Terminator) couldn't bring back futuristic weapons.

Kevin

 

[SSgt Burton]

Or Reese was wrong.

Maybe, but that doesn't explain why the Terminator didn't bring back a plasma rifle or clothes.


Kevin

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

Maybe, but that doesn't explain why the Terminator didn't bring back a plasma rifle or clothes.


Kevin

I have to go back to the comics for this. They sent back terminators with a human. They stitched the human up with a weapon in his stomach and killed him to retrieve it when they came back.

 

[Solo4114]

Maybe, but that doesn't explain why the Terminator didn't bring back a plasma rifle or clothes.


Kevin

Couldn't get it through the Time Travel Security Administration checkpoint. Man, they take EVERYTHING these days...

 

[cayman shen]

Maybe he came through organic, shed/stripped his skin so his liquid metal would work, and chose to take the same appearance? Lame, but I can live with it in terms of helping me sleep at night.

 

[Nwerke]

You could always use the TaunTaun approach...

 

[Wes R]

I always thought maybe he was coated in an organic material or "shell" that burned off when he arrived. Well there is a theory that Reese was off about alot of things due to the loss of so much information. There has even been debate that T2 really didn't stop Skynet from going online because it was nowhere near ready in 1997 like Reese said. I tend to like the theory that the attack by Sarah in T2 caused it to hate humans later on. Sort of its first memory (although it wasn't online or it was barely some code in a comp) would be of humans trying to destroy it via whatever source it would have read about.

 

[terryr]

And the humans hair, fingernails, and outer skin layer is dead as well. So they should arrive pink and bald.

Just put an H-bomb in a cow and send it through. L.A. go Boom.

I guess you could say the T-1000 had a skin coating that was discarded before we saw it.

 

[Contec]

In my own mind i have always thought that T1000 came inside a big flesh ball that he ripped apart when he arrived. That would have made a cool effect.

 

[Hovito loincloth]

In my own mind i have always thought that T1000 came inside a big flesh ball that he ripped apart when he arrived. That would have made a cool effect.

Maybe the t-800's covered him in bacon.

mmmm........bacon

 

[Sean Hebein]

I prefer the bacon theory.

 

[sycor]

I always figured that the machines changed the time travel equipment to allow non-organic stuff through after the T800 failed. But I guess that's just too easy.

 

[ONEYE]

In my own mind i have always thought that T1000 came inside a big flesh ball that he ripped apart when he arrived. That would have made a cool effect.

Agreed. thumbsup

 

[Too Much Garlic]

And the humans hair, fingernails, and outer skin layer is dead as well. So they should arrive pink and bald.

Just put an H-bomb in a cow and send it through. L.A. go Boom.

I guess you could say the T-1000 had a skin coating that was discarded before we saw it.

It would kill itself by killing its creators.

I always figured that the machines changed the time travel equipment to allow non-organic stuff through after the T800 failed. But I guess that's just too easy.

How would they know it failed?


The bacon theory... it's beginning to grow on me. But currently I just view T2 as an oddity - a cool dream of a teen growing up in the ashes of nuclear war.

 

[cayman shen]

And the humans hair, fingernails, and outer skin layer is dead as well. So they should arrive pink and bald.

Just put an H-bomb in a cow and send it through. L.A. go Boom.

I guess you could say the T-1000 had a skin coating that was discarded before we saw it.

Dead, but organic. It didn't have to be living crap, just organic.

 

[Contec]

Dead, but organic. It didn't have to be living crap, just organic.

So he could have come back in time in a big pile of steaming ****...:lol

 

[SmilingOtter]

Really this is another plot hole in itself- why would the machines build a device that could only transport organic living objects? :rolleyes

Perhaps the humans originally created the time travel device to go back and prevent Skynet, and as a safety factor they made it only work on organic material.

Then Skynet found it, and appropriated it for its own use.