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

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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.
>
> That whole scene always bugged me. It's inexplicable to me why Arnold, a
> cold and emotionless machine with "detailed files" on just about
> everything, wouldn't realize that exploding the frozen T-1000 would only
> allow it to melt and reform a lot faster. If he'd left it in one huge
> frozen chunk, they'd have had an hour or more to get away instead of
> just minutes.
>


Hindsite is 20/20.  He may not have been aware freezing the T-1000 would 
have any affect on it.  The T-1000 itself seemed shocked.  So when it did 
freeze he shattered it.  He also may not have been aware it was going to 
melt and reform so quickly.  Or if if he was aware it was hot enough to 
defrost he may have calculated it would take longer to reassemble (plus
the 
added benefit of malfunctions) if he broke it into pieces.



> I could see John Connor doing-- a hot-headed kid who doesn't know a lot
> about physics-- but not the Terminator.