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

[franz bolo]

He looked pretty organic to me.

FB

 

[CB2001]

Just throwing this out there, but would Skynet have tested the device using human prisoners as well?

Maybe they did, and word of this new weapon/device made its way back to the Resistance? So that's how they (the humans) know in advance that "you go naked- nothing 'dead' will go" even though it is a one way trip?


Kevin

Well, it's possible that is true, that it attempted to send dead bodies through (under the assumption that it could just skin a dead human body and put a T-800 inside of it and send it back that way), only to learn that the flesh has to be alive (thus explaining another reason why the T-800 is covered with cloned/living flesh, and makes my T-1000 covered in a small layer of flesh theory also possible.).

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Well... survivors were rounded up in concentration camps, so the logical conclusion would be that Skynet used them to experiment on to better learn its enemy.

 

[terryr]

I have another one. How did the T-1000 see? It was all metal goop. It could look like whatever, but it was still metal. A picture of an eyeball isn't an eyeball.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

I have another one. How did the T-1000 see? It was all metal goop. It could look like whatever, but it was still metal. A picture of an eyeball isn't an eyeball.

How do digital cameras see? How do things without eyes see?

When he's formed, he'll obviously form the right connections to bring visual information to be processed into the internal computer, which, is also formed when he grows solid.

Simple.

 

[Zykotec]

BTTF is a whole other time travel scenario... at least to the first Terminator movie's time travel, which is similar to the Twelve Monkey's time travel scenario: nothing can be changed, as the past has already happened. Sure, the terminator tried, but in effect, it just fulfilled it's true purpose in history and became the basis for the engineers to start working on something sophisticated enough that lead to Skynet.

In the first movie it's not clear that the time travelers can't do nothing to change history, otherwise neither Skynet or the resistance would have bothered, and same for T2, why bother if nothing will change? And it's not clear that the first terminator became the basis for itself until T2, and I guess the only one who knows by the third movie is the Older John Connor, or his wife, because the Terminator they send back inform the younger Connor about this. (they still send the Terminator back in time to 'save' him though.????)

The other terminator movies just waved a quick goodbye to everything set up in the first movie and just bulldozed outa there with mindless action and back-pocket ideas.

Also... in BTTF it is only the time travelers who will know that the time has changed. For everyone else, it's as it has always been. So Skynet would never know it failed. It would also never know if it succeeded. As the Skynet that sent back the terminator and that future would no longer exist if the terminator had succeeded in killing Sarah Connor.

It really is so simple and straightforward, but people keep making it more complicated than it really is.

I guess Skynet would not have bothered to make any more attempts if they didn't know if they succeded or not, so they are smarter than the folks in BTTF, or maybe Skynet has a way of monitoring what the terminators are doing in the 'past' (but you are right on the part that only the time travelers would know. )
Or maybe they sent all the terminators at once, just to different 'pasts' to tilt the odds a bit in it's favor.
And yes, it's simple and straightforward (and impossible) but it really makes some complicated scenarios if you can think a little outside the box.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Yeah, and usually making time travel scenarios more complicated than they need to be, they also make them even more illogical and impossible.

When you have nothing else to lose, you try anything, even if you don't think it could work. Though... that does rather seem illogical for a computer... but hey... it did grow sentient... so maybe sentient means growing stupid! .P

 

[Zykotec]

Come to think of it, Skynet probably didn't know thay had tried it before because of the history chances that happened because of their tries, that's why they make the same mistake three times in a row

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Come to think of it, Skynet probably didn't know thay had tried it before because of the history chances that happened because of their tries, that's why they make the same mistake three times in a row

No, that's just bad story-telling ignoring previously established in-universe things.

It's like writing a male character as a female in the next story. It's just bad writing.