Corrected entry: When the T-X shoots the teenager at the fast food restaurant, there is a passenger seat between her and the window. When going through a drive-through, the driver's seat is closest to the pick-up window.
Corrected entry: When the Terminator opens the casket of Sarah Connor it is filled to the top with weapons. In the next scene the Terminator is carrying the casket on his shoulder with John Connor inside. The casket is put inside the back of a hearse and driven away. In one of the following scenes John Connor (outside of the casket) and the open casket are shown in the same shot and the casket is filled with weapons; there is no indication that it was filled back up with weapons after John Conner got out. There would be no way that he could have fit inside the casket with all of the weapons as well.
Correction: There is plenty of room for John Connor to be hidden in the top of the casket on top of all the weapons - the top is curved.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Terminatrix travels back from the future she is naked and proceeds to first find some clothes (and a vehicle). However, later in the film her clothes change as part of her appearance when she changes forms. If the same mechanism, which governs the look and shape of her skin and body, is also capable of emulating clothing, then why did she travel to the past naked to begin with? (Aside from the obvious visual benefits).
Correction: The T-1000 could also emulate clothing with the shape-shifting abilities, but only clothing that it has touched. It cannot create clothing, so I would think T-X functions the same in that department.
Corrected entry: Inside the military base, the TX takes on the form of Catherine in order to fool Catherine's father. At that point, the TX still hadn't come into physical contact with Catherine, so it would have been impossible for the transformation to occur.
Correction: Yes, The TX had come into physical contact with Catherine just after John Conner was thrown into the dog cage. The TX chases her outside, pulls her out of the car, and stands on her throat while interrogating...direct, physical contact.
Corrected entry: The Terminator explains to John Connor that he is powered by 2 hydrogen-cells. In Crystal Peak the Terminator uses his second and last one to blow up himself and the Terminatrix. How can the Terminator still hold the Terminatrix and say "You are terminated" when he already stuffed his second and last energy-cell down her mouth?
Correction: One word: capacitors.
Corrected entry: The TX cuts through the particle accelerator with its inbuilt saw, but the machine was on. This was trapping it and the liquid metal, making it unable to move. Somehow it is able to activate the saw without that too being caught by the magnetic field. Not to mention it was able to hold the entire saw completely steady while activating it.
Correction: It was still activated so it should be able to use its tools still. Could be the saw was mostly made up of titanium or aluminum which is not (or hardly) affected by the magnetic field of the accelerator and thus still usable.
Corrected entry: This is one shot that is in all 3 movies. When Arnold gets on a motorcycle there is a shot of his foot. As the shot continues you see the camera pan up as Arnold turns around on the bike. (00:30:40)
Correction: This is a very obvious gimmick and shouldn't be considered trivia.
Corrected entry: John Connor, the damaged Terminator and Kate suddenly appear from the elevator inside her father's black/top secret lab right as the TX attacks. They have no ID badges on, which would have drawn challenges in a secure/classified government facility. There is no indication in the lab that a security breach has occurred when they appear, and no MPs chasing them. So John, Kate and the Terminator did not shoot their way into the lab, either. There is no way security/MPs would have allowed John and the Terminator in the facility in the first place, let alone Kate without notifying her father first.
Correction: This is explained in the novel. Kate, John, and the T-850 are stopped at the gate, and Kate explains that the T-850 is her fiance, and that John is their best man. She also says that her father is expecting her, which he is. The guards say that Robert Brewster is busy, but they will let her in. They send her over to the reception area to get signed in. All this is fully compatible with what we see on-screen.
Corrected entry: When the T-101 throws its malfunctioning fuel cell out of the car window, it explodes and forms a mushroom cloud. This isn't possible; a mushroom cloud isn't a characteristic of a nuclear explosion, - all explosions, chemical, nuclear or thermonuclear, are hot enough to form mushroom clouds. It is the reaction mass (rather than the explosive mass) that counts. As the explosion forms it superheats and vaporises a mass of material - soil, air, people, whatever, and this hot column of reaction debris rises. If - and only if - the explosion is big enough, the reaction plume will strike colder, denser air at altitude and will be forced out and down, forming the familiar mushroom cloud. With an explosion of this size, they'd never have been able to outrun it.
Correction: Any and all explosions will create a mushroom cloud regardless of their yield. During an explosion, there is a rapid increase in air pressure that emanates from the blast, called a shock front. A temporary vacuum is created within the explosion, and the lower pressure air, outside of the shock front, is then pulled upwards toward the site of the explosion filling in the vacuum creating the characteristic mushroom cloud. However, on small enough scales this effect is hard to see.
Corrected entry: When the T-X meets Catherine in the graveyard disguised as her fiance, she turns back into the T-X right in front of her. Not only is this a breathtakingly stupid idea - obviously done purely to meet the plot requirement that Kate learn about the terminators.
Correction: Not necessarily true. She'd gotten close enough to kill Kate, had the others not intervened. And she would probably be more powerful in her true form - I doubt that she could form her primary weapons from somebody else's hand without turning that hand into her own hand first. And if she does that, she's showing her true form anyway, so it was simpler to just turn back into her self.
Corrected entry: When TX goes after the fast food kid relatively early on, we see from across the street that she guns him down. We hear the bullets being fired from across the street. Then why can we see two people in the kitchen area sitting down about ten metres away from where the body fell, looking perfectly relaxed and trouble free, even when the screaming starts?
Correction: Having lived in L.A. for a year and a half, I am only half joking when I tell you this is quite feasible. Gunfire, bloodshed and mayhem in L.A.? Big deal. In some areas of L.A. you'd have to strafe the streets from a jet fighter to get a reaction - they are that used to it.
Corrected entry: When the T-850 is confronting the T-X in the military compound, when she tries to assassinate the Lt. General, he made a rather poor choice of weapon, an assault rifle, especially when the coffin was filled to the brim with the good stuff.
Correction: This is hardly a mistake at all, especially not a plot hole. The Terminator was in an enclosed military facility. Using heavy, destructive weapons would've been useless, because the Terminator would've caused more damage to the facility and potentially himself and John and Kate. He chose the right weapon given the situation. Plus, he used a great deal of weaponry against the other machines.
Corrected entry: The cops and firefighters find the T-850 in the middle of a major crime scene, and don't think twice that he happens to be holding a large gun? In fact, Arnold not only gets up, but walks around with the gun, and not one cop thinks to ask what he is doing there, and no one tells him to drop the gun. One cop on a motorcycle is so oblivious he speeds on by, only to be knocked off by the T-850.
Correction: All the cops were distracted because their cars just drove away by themselves and a beautiful woman drove a giant crane through the scene. A man walking around with a gun was the least of their concerns.
Corrected entry: TX may be able to gain control of computerized devices, but driving a car remotely is ridiculous. How does she shift it from park into drive? How does she steer? Driving a car is a mechanical process. If the car itself was already equipped with a computerized remote device, and she gained control of THAT, she could do it, but that's not the case. Remote control of a normal car goes beyond "controlling machines" - it's more like telekinesis.
Correction: Driving a car maybe a mechanical process, but it still not impossible for the T-X to remotely control them. The T-850 says she use "nano-technology" to control machines, but he does not explain in detail. This leaves the possibility that she uses small nanobots to take over the mechanical devices within the car in order to steer, shift gears, etc. She may not be controlling the car directly but she could control the nanobots which do. Come on, use your imagination.
Corrected entry: How does the T-X know to find Catherine at the veterinary clinic at 5:30 AM? Wouldn't she have gone to her home to search for her at that hour? Catherine was only there because she was called out for an unexpected emergency.
Correction: She was being systematic. She located the first target at his job at the fast food place. She probably thought to check the Veterinary clinic first. Time is irrelevant to Terminators. It is unlikely that she actually considered the possibility that 5:30 a.m. was too early for work.
Corrected entry: The Terminatrix drives the FBI car from the back seat, steering through the agent's chest, but who is stepping on the gas, and brake?
Correction: Since she can extend her hands to steer the wheels, she could also extend her legs under the driver's seat to step on the gas and the brake.
Corrected entry: The terminator TX arrives from the future in a women's clothing store window, and yet her first task is go searching for clothing.
Correction: For all we know, she may have classified the clothing in that store as unsuitable, like Arnie did, so went looking elsewhere.
Corrected entry: When Catherine's father walks through the corridor of the military base, on his way to the first test of the flying Hunter Killers, he is accompanied by a female civilian employee who is wearing a yellow blouse and you can see a fair bit of cleavage. Civilian employees on US military bases are required to dress modestly, and she is showing too much cleavage. The US military is utterly rigid in imposing their dress codes on civilians and she'd be ordered to button up.
Correction: While she might be asked to button herself up, there is no way they would go to such a huge fuss for two buttons. Perhaps if she was wearing no clothes or hardly any they might be more concerned but this sort of mistake is only probable, not certain.
It is not the number of buttons that counts, it is the amount of cleavage on display. If she showed up in a low-cut one-piece blouse with no buttons but the same amount of cleavage showing, she'd be sent home to change. I know from experience that the US military is merciless in rigidly imposing dress codes on all civilian employees.
The correction is utterly wrong. The US military is ultra strict regarding the dress standards of civilian employees. Exposed cleavage? High heels? Above the knee skirts? No, absolutely not. It is beyond question that the woman in the yellow blouse would be ordered to button up before she was allowed on site. There are strict dress standards for males, too, but obviously they have different criteria.
Correction: Not true. This happens with fast food places that have multiple drive up windows (e.g. Checkers in the USA)
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