Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles

Doesn't matter if they were covered in skin. I'm partially agreeing with your argument, but simply covering something with living tissue doesn't make it living tissue. So in that case nothing could come through. That would be like saying if they put a sock in their mouth while coming through the sock would make it.

 

It's not my rule, it's James Cameron's, but that IS the rule. The Terminators are robots covered in living human flesh, that's why they can make it through the portal.

From T1 (per imdb.com)

Dr. Silberman: Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle Reese: You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman: Why?
Kyle Reese: I didn't build the fucking thing!
Dr. Silberman: Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Reese: Surrounded by living tissue.

 

She's cute, just not tough enough to be Sarah. Everybody watches for something different, ITS JUST ENTERTAINMENT.

 

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With you there. Anytime I watch a show like this I have to go to the whole suspension of disbelief thing.

So I am not going to get into the whole nerd fest going on regarding the "validity of the time travel and re-animated cyborg assassin whose head shouldn't have been able to go through to the future with the "organics". One phrase, suspension of disbelief.

I enjoyed it, I really enjoyed Summer Glau and Lena Headey, I'll keep on watching until it is canceled.

 

The plot holes I'm talking about have nothing to do with suspension of disbelief.

Suspension of disbelief means you're agreeing to a new set of "laws" (i.e. a robot can be wrapped in human flesh and go back in time). When those laws are broken by a writer who's just being sloppy, it's a plot hole.

There's an important difference between the two.

 

So why are you getting upset?

 

Yeah, I know what you are saying, however, it is still kind of nerdy to argue about the validity of something that has no basis in reality even if the beloved creator "Cameron" set forth the immutable rules. When I am reading the earlier posts it sounds like comic book guy off of the Simpsons.

I have to admit that I am considered somewhat nerdy by some just because I like science fiction and fantasy and that is what I tend to gravitate to in books and visual media.

I used to get bent out of shape over inconsistencies but then I got to the point where I just relaxed and enjoyed it for what it was unless it was truly terrible (sometimes that is pretty good though). This show has some cool things going for it, not least of which is the nice eye candy.

 

That's all I care about. Even if I didn't understand it, I'd still watch it.

 

Robots wrapped in flesh can go through the time portal. This was established in the first movie and reinforced in the next two. Cameron could go through but the metal head should not have made it.

I assumed the metal body also went through but was deposited somewhere else. That would explain why no one in 1999 found the metal body. It should not have gone through either. I guess one possible explanation is that the bad guy was still wrapped in flesh when Sarah shot him. Prehaps he went through the portal before the effects of the weapon vaporized his biological parts?

A plot hole I thought about was that John was at least 12 years old when T2 came out in 1991. He was only 15 in 1999......

I like the new Sarah. I miss Arnold though.