Re: 1st Season Terminator TSCC - Queen's Gambit - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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> > >> >> "George Avalos" <georgeavalos0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> >> > "Queen's Gambit"
> > >> >> > 2-11-08 T:TSCC
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> > >> >> If terminators were so easy to turn off, why hasn't that been
> > >> >> done in the 'past'?
> > >> >
> > >> > It has been. Sarah turned Arnold off the same way in T2.
> > >>
> > >> If it isn't part of the movie, it isn't part of the movie.
> > >
> > > It was part of the movie. It's on my DVD clear as day, right after
they
> > > escape from Pescadero there's a whole scene with Arnold telling them
he
> > > can't learn because Skynet sets all Terminators to "read-only" mode
> > > before sending them out. John asks if they can switch him to
> > > "read-write" and he guides Sarah through the process of removing his
> > > brain and resetting the switch.
> > 
> > The scene with switching Arnold from read only mode was not in the 
> > theatrical version of the movie.  I prefer the extended version myself

> > since 
> > in addition to reprogramming Arnold it also features the T-1000 more 
> > explicitly malfunctioning after being frozen and broken apart. 
> 
> And the future coda ending that I vastly prefer.

I don't. It's silly and makes no sense. There's no way that John Connor 
or his mother could become elected politicians on the national level. 
They were wanted as terrorists and murderers even before the events of 
T2. All the people who were killed and maimed during the course of 
Sarah's escape from Pescadero and their assault on Cyberdyne would have 
been laid squarely at their feet. Altering the future and stopping 
Skynet wouldn't change that. They'd be the two most hunted people on the 
planet, certainly in the Western Hemishpere, anyway.

Even if they managed to avoid capture and live out their lives, there's 
no conceivable way John Connor could run for and be elected to Congress 
without being instantly arrested.