Peptuck wrote:
-Modern projectile weaponry does seem to be able to damage at the least the T-600s, which makes their implementation by TechCom to be logical sense. Connor manages to kill one T-600 in the intro with a pair of 5.56mm rounds to the head, though that one was damaged. The more intact one later on took several dozen hits from the machinegun to kill.
I saw it again yesterday, I think it's one of the things john mentions on the radio to though he mentions that they're only effective at ranges under 100 meters. That or he was talking at the t-600s themselves.
Skynet has an aversion to sending more than one unit on any given mission, much like an RTS gamer who needs to micromanage in order to keep his units from walking past enemy bases. Where the hell were the massive waves of HKs or even those adorable hunter-drones from T2 3D? Skynet has the resources to make Constructicons with SoundWave-style parasites that are only designed to kill enemies on paved surfaces, but can't figure out how to make poison gas that instantly kills any intruders into its non-oxygen-breathing HQ?
And it was like this even in the Cameron films. There's a conspicuous lack of chemical and biological weapons use. Also SkyNet does have a tendency to send one unit when it could send many see.. well the whole time travel plot. It had access to the time machine long enough to send 3 units through but instead of sending them all after Sarah Connor in 1984 in the initial strike it spread things out.
Heh, and that giant Skynet harvester mecha at the 7-11 sure was sneaky. You'd think they'd hear the drop ship and the robot before it was, you know, ready to smash off the roof. Neither of those things were subtle.
You mean like the increasingly loud jet noise that eventually got to the point where it was shaking the whole damn building right before the Harvester busted in the roof?
I saw it, but it seems like the end of the movie just went too smoothly. I know that Marcus "turned off" some of the defenses in order to allow John Connor in... but why, pray tell, since it was a ruse by Skynet, didn't the computer simply turn them back on once John Connor was in?
Skynet seemed to be doing really well in the first half of the movie, and then all of a sudden, the only Skynet fighter in sight is the Composite Arnold T-800. The Resistance fighters just moved right in and jacked the place without Skynet firing a shot at them. You'd think, given that the whole movie was Skynet doing a Dark Helmet ("Haha... fooled you!"), that it would turn its defenses back on once it had what it wanted.
Regarding this considering that Connor's bunch had strike craft still it's probable the defenses were blown up before they sent the choppers in. And obviously there's something shooting down there since there were wounded prisoners on the ground when the blackhawk landed and the door gunners were shooting at something on the way in.
I enjoyed it as an action/war movie, but I really fucking hated the ending. After all the effort Marcus went through, all the character building he recieved, everything he did at Skynet Central, even John Connor's Big Damn Rescue when the T-800 flattened him...oh heart transplant lol. Bah.
Sounds like you would have preferred the original ending to.
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- PeZook
