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posted 7 years ago by facorread
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The Skynet facility is a complete Terminator factory, full of active Terminators and surely many more ready for deployment. If the machines had to think "radically," why did they not send more than one Terminator to kill John Connor as soon as they detected his presence in the facility?

In a related note, the facility is full of nuclear fuel cells. If John Connor is so important to the machines, why not just obliterate the place, killing him in the process?

Similarly, why were the machines incapable of taking control of Marcus, for example, to prevent him from saving Connor at the lake? Or to kill him himself? Or to prevent Marcus from removing the comms/control chips in his neck? Or to prevent him from waking up at all? Or at least delay his reactivation until after the death of Connor, so to keep Marcus out of the equation?

Why is Marcus an advanced prototype, the only one of its kind? Skynet seems to have the industrial process of grafting human living tissue over a machine pretty much down at this point, even being able to fully repair Marcus in a matter of minutes. The machines could have sent more than one infiltration unit to get the job done.

[–] millsey72 (9693) 2 years ago

Answer to each of your questions is they are a plot hole

[–] RoboReCop (2833) a year ago

The Skynet facility is a complete Terminator factory, full of active Terminators and surely many more ready for deployment. If the machines had to think "radically," why did they not send more than one Terminator to kill John Connor as soon as they detected his presence in the facility?

The alert should have occurred when Marcus removes his "transponder" thing, or at least in that scene. All HELL should have broken loose in San Francisco. This dead account has a point I agree with.

In a related note, the facility is full of nuclear fuel cells. If John Connor is so important to the machines, why not just obliterate the place, killing him in the process?

John Connor is important to US -- the viewers. Skynet prolly at that point doesn't even know much of Connor, as he's some slum human militant.

Similarly, why were the machines incapable of taking control of Marcus, for example, to prevent him from saving Connor at the lake? Or to kill him himself? Or to prevent Marcus from removing the comms/control chips in his neck? Or to prevent him from waking up at all? Or at least delay his reactivation until after the death of Connor, so to keep Marcus out of the equation?

Circle questioning... however, it's also Hollywood.

[–] RoboReCop (2833) a year ago

Why is Marcus an advanced prototype, the only one of its kind? Skynet seems to have the industrial process of grafting human living tissue over a machine pretty much down at this point, even being able to fully repair Marcus in a matter of minutes. The machines could have sent more than one infiltration unit to get the job done.

Yes, Marcus is an advanced prototype, yet defective. Marcus came AWARE and chose the Humans over Machines. Of course, we can presume there are more out there, some prolly died and others didn't. The ones that are still inactivated were prolly destroyed, as Marcus being proof -- defects and all -- would ultimately be a powerful weapon for the Humans.

Marcus was a TEST, for SkyNet, and it failed. So why build more, or why allow activations of more humans like Marcus to happen when Marcus chose Humans over Machines?