why, didn't he simply murder everyone, until he arrived

why didnt he go back in time to when john was born and just kill him as a baby?

talk about stupid machines. who built these things? other stupid machines?

>>87420671
why, didn't all of skynet, simply go back in time, and murder all of the dinosaurs and cavehumanity?

>>87420624
why didn't he use the eagles to get to his targets

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>>87420624
because he is a highly effective Infiltration unit.
the uniform was because a cop holds authority and can walk around asking questions about the whereabouts of a 10 year old boy.
without the T800 John Connor would have been fucked and the T1000 would have shot him or stabbed him in the face.

also police radio gave him live updates on where to intercept the crew.

Because events still needed to take place to bring about Skynet. He needs to limit the alterations to the timeline to his objective as much as possible. If a melty cyborg slaughters hundreds of people maybe the government's a little cagey about handing over control of the nukes to a computer.

>>87420671
they tried that already by trying to kill sarah connor.

>>87420624
he killed certain witnesses, but he wasn't capable of an ongoing slaughterfest. The government could theoretically have eliminated him with thermite or some bullshit.

>>87420624

T-X was worse.

>can kill people in seconds and does so
>reach target
>proceed to throw them around the room for 5 minutes until they can escape

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ITT faggots think they are being clever by asking dumb questions

>>87420671
because John Connor's birth was undocumented, he was born in Mexico. Humanity's saver is a DACA

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>>87420624
>athiesm.jpg

>>87420624

As the events of the film clearly show, it was not invincible. If it became perfectly clear to a sufficiently large and powerful number of human beings that a single shape-shifting robotic killing machine was on the loose, then those people would pretty quickly hit upon an effective strategy for destroying it, with sufficient coordination.

Now, IF INSTEAD IT INFECTS ENTIRE NETWORKS and "helps the future along", as was usefully depicted in the too-often-maligned sequel, then we've got real problems, because now the threat is capable of reproducing itself.

Also the OP's filename is kinda funny because the actor is a down-to-earth guy and a devout Christian (and probably among the quiet conservative Hollywood set), who just happens to have one infamous villain role to his actor's CV.

>>87420624
Because he's not I destructible and his tech can change the future. Uniform is to blend in and easier to get info.

>>87421543

The uniform sucks because it's inconsistent.

Hell, it being all metal is inconsistent.

>>87420624
>why, didn't he simply murder everyone, until he arrived at his destination? why bother, with the policia uniform?

Because they are time travellers.
If they change a lot of stuff (killing people) the futue can change.

If people know that the machine dominated future is real, people can prevent it.

>>87420624
Reminder that guns n roses sucks and their whiny break up song in the soundtrack hurt the movie

>gets killed by a teenager, his mom and a busted robot
>"why not alert the military by going on a murder spree?"

>>87420624
Why didnt the robot go back in time to reach mordor?

Watch the movie again. He killed everyone he came in contact with. Conner's adoptive parents. Random people who may or may not have had high rank in the war. People where caught in the crossfire between him and Schwarzenegger.

>>87423002

Nope. It merely shoved Budnick from Salute Your Shorts! aside in the arcade, as it had a higher priority upon imminent, highly-probable target acquisition.

It's also not absolutely clear that the helicopter pilot who abandoned his chopper died as a result of hitting the ground. It's a long awful fall, yes, but the chopper was low and that kind of thing is well survivable depending on the individual and how the fall is taken.

Also, y'know, how it totallly didn't kill Sarah Connor when it had the one-mississippi two-mississippi-three opportunity, and how it kinda failed to fulfill its mission of killing John Conner despite the two being in close proximity at several points, which is kind of the Macguffin point of the movie's whole chase. Yeah, apart from all that and other stuff the T-1000 totally killed everyone it had contact with, yes, you're sure right anon.

>>87420624
Think of it like it's surgery to remove a tumor. You can remove a tumor by going in and just slicing indiscriminately at the body it's in, but you'll also horribly injure or kill the body in the process defeating the purpose of why you're trying to remove the tumor in the first place.
John is the tumor, T-1000 is the surgeon, and the timeline where skynet takes over is the patient's body. He wants to be a good surgeon and slip in to excise the tumor while minimizing harm to the patient. Going around indiscriminately killing everyone while looking like a robot would potentially cause a whole bunch of brand new threats to their timeline. They don't want to jeopardize the beneficial parts of the timeline they've locked down for themselves, they just want to get rid of that one specific confounding factor of John's existence.

Killing slows you do and draws attention. Imagine going to work and having to run over every pedestrian on the way. Now throw in the idea that work is also driving away from you so you have to catch up to it. It'd take forever!

>>87423002
I don't remember him killing anyone unnecessarily. Everyone he murdered was to impersonate or just as a bonus while trying to achieve his primary goal. Everyone he questioned about the whereabouts of John Connors survived, I think. He took out his parents hoping John would come home, failing that he still managed to get a lead on John. He killed the security guard to impersonate him, not just to murder for the sake of murder.

Did he even kill the cop he took the bike from?

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>>87421216
underrated

Any movie that has time travel necessarily requires not thinking about the plot too much. Time travel as a concept is just too impossible for anything logical to be concluded in a fiction where it exists.

Primer is the ONE exception.

>>87423291

Can a machine really "murder"? Can an android really warrant being accorded the usual manly pronouns, in the course of discussing it?

>>87420671
It was explained in the first movie that they didn't have precise records of pre-Judgment Day, which is why the original Terminator murdered every Sarah Connor. So, when Skynet was under attack and about to be destroyed, they sent the T-800 back to kill Sarah Connor before John's conception, and the T-1000 back as a safeguard a decade after that in case the T-800 failed.

Everything after T-2 is non-canon and ignores the established storyline.

>>87421216
His parents were US citizens. Even being born abroad, he would've been a US citizen.

>>87423420
It's all semantics. Humanizing the robot with terms like murder just nicer phrasing than plain old killing. It's also played by Robert Patrick and usually assumed a male form, so he is an apt pronoun.

>>87420624
Because a single terminator could easily be taken out by the military. If he went around killing people it would've caused mass hysteria. He would've been killed, studied and probably reverse engineered. That would completely fuck up Skynet and the future.

What was their plan for the t1000 once the mission was over? He can't self terminate. He was just going to, what? Live as a cop? That might be a good movie, have the t1000 win, start some family I guess, develop emotions like the t800 did, and somehow become the new John Connor.

Did they ever do a terminator following the war? Why are the terminator and matrix stories not connected? They're so close. Jesus christ I wish I'd bought beer for tonight

>>87424195

Go into stand-by mode and wait for Judgement Day?

>>87424292
Where? Just chill in some cave in the sierras? Especially when it could get shit rolling early by perfectly replicating anyone it wants?

>>87424195
He could hide almost anywhere with his liquid body and just sleep until Judgement day. Your idea would be a cool movie tho

>>87424407

>Just chill in some cave in the sierras?

Something like that. Better to just let things happen (as Skynet would have calculated) than to change the timeline even more.

>>87424195
>kill John Connor
>uhhhhh
>have no other commands
>go and just wait in a cave
>some kid finds you
>no reason to kill the kid so just deal with the kid
>kid grows attached to you , comes to you for safety
>you protect it because you analyze a threat to YOU (since the kid is hugging you) take threat out

The entire time the kid was the girl from Terminator 3

>>87424428
Dunno how it would work. Maybe write in some macguffin as to why he can't power down, something with living metal needing constant kinetic energy. Have some program in his hard drive that tells him to just assume an identity until judgement day and since he's already a cop he just runs the "protector of society" subroutine, makes friends, gets damaged and confuses some programs, and decides it has to be him who stops skynet. Might make a decent movie if done and played correctly

>>87422290
Yea.. but they did have Fear Factory. So it comes out okay