The Terminator/Terminator 2: Judgment Day FAQ

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                   The Terminator/Terminator 2: Judgment Day
                                      FAQ

                          compiled and maintained by
                             Karsten A. Loepelmann
                           kloepel@psych.ualberta.ca

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                        Last updated: December 14, 1994

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Table of Contents
(*) indicates that the answer has been modified since the last version of
    this FAQ (v. 2.20)
(+) indicates a new question

   0. Introduction
 * 0.1. World-Wide Web access to this FAQ
 + 0.1.1. FTP resources
 * 0.2. Questions that need answering

   1. What are the different movie versions?
   1.1 _The Terminator_
   1.2 _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_
   1.2.1 Why were there scenes cut out of T2?
   1.2.2 What is the missing ending?
 + 1.2.3 What are the other scenes added to T2?


   2. Are the Original Motion Picture Soundtracks available?
   2.1 The Terminator
   2.2 T2
   2.2.1 What songs in the movie are not on the soundtrack?

   3. What 'Terminator' comics are there?
   3.1. Now Comics
   3.2. Dark Horse Comics
   3.3. Marvel Comics

 * 4. What 'Terminator' computer/video games are there?

   5. What are the filmographies of the some of the people involved with T2?
 * 5.1. James Cameron
 * 5.2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
   5.3. Linda Hamilton
 * 5.4. Robert Patrick

   6. Miscellaneous questions
   6.1.  What year does T2 take place?
 * 6.1.1 Are there mathematical errors in the script?
   6.2.  Why did it take the T-1000 so long to show up at John's house in
         Reseda?
   6.3.  Why didn't the security guard at Pescadero State Hospital not notice
         the T-1000 on the floor?
   6.4.  Does the T-1000 have to touch the object it takes the form of?
   6.5.  Why did the T-1000 change back to the policeman at Pescadero State
         Hospital?
   6.6.  Why did the orderly in Pescadero State Hospital lick Sarah's face?
 * 6.7.  If dogs are used to identify Terminators, why doesn't the dog at the
         desert hideout bark at the Terminator?
 * 6.8.  Why does Sarah carve the words "NO FATE"?
   6.9.  What gun does Sarah use when she attempts to kill Dyson?
   6.10. Why doesn't Sarah kill Dyson?
   6.11. When the T-1000 goes to Dyson's home, what police radio is it
         listening to?
   6.12. Why didn't the T-1000 try to imitate Dyson and develop Skynet itself?
   6.13. When the Terminator was firing the big machine gun in the Cyberdyne
         lab, is the bullet belt moving or not?
   6.14. Does the T-1000 have a third arm when it is flying the helicopter
         and shooting its weapon at the same time?
   6.15. What was that "ripple" that went through the T-1000 after it fought
         the T-800 and left him behind?
   6.16. Why did the T-1000 take the shape of Sarah instead of the T-800 after
         it drove the spike through his back?
   6.17. Why did the T-1000 try to get Sarah to call to John?
   6.17.1 Why didn't the T-1000 kill Sarah later?
   6.18. If the T-1000 was destroyed when it fell into the molten steel, why
         wasn't it destroyed when the semi tow-truck blew up?
   6.19. Why didn't the Terminator "disappear" when John threw the CPU into
         the molten steel?
   6.20. Isn't the Terminator's arm being left behind in the huge gear going
         to lead to the creation of Skynet anyway?
   6.21. When the T-1000 is on top of the elevator in Pescadero State
         Hospital, why doesn't it just cut the cables?
   6.22. What about <insert continuity glitch here>?
 + 6.23. What is the make and model of the Terminator?

   7. Trivia
   7.1.  Who was originally cast as the Terminator?
   7.2.  How many lines did Arnold have in T1?
   7.3.  What is Harlan Ellison's connection to the Terminator movies?
   7.4.  What is the 'crushing foot' motif?
   7.5.  Is "judgment" spelled correctly?
   7.6.  How did Linda Hamilton prepare for T2?
   7.7.  Does Linda Hamilton have a twin sister who appeared in T2?
   7.8.  What hardware/software was used to produce some of the FX in T2?
   7.9.  What machine code is displayed on the Terminator's visual display?
   7.10. What is the literal translation of "Schwarzenegger"?
   7.11. What does "Hasta la vista" mean?
   7.12. Did the movies win any Academy Awards?
   7.13. How much money did T2 make?
   7.14. Miscellaneous trivia
   7.15. Is there a real Skynet?

   8. Time travel questions.
   8.1 How did the (liquid *metal*) T-1000 travel to the past?  Didn't they
       destroy the time machine?
   8.2 How can Skynet exist if the chip and arm were destroyed?
   8.3 If John gave a speech to Reese in 2029, who gave it to Sarah and
       conceived John in 1984, and then Sarah told it to John, then who
       *wrote* the bloody speech?

   9. Will there be a _Terminator 3_ movie?

   10. Credits
 * 10.1. Bibliography

Abbreviations:
   JC == James Cameron
   LD == Laser Disk
   SE == Special Edition (boxed set)
   T1 == _The Terminator_ movie
   T2 == _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_ movie
   T-1000 == the 'liquid metal' Terminator in T2
   T-800 or Terminator == Arnold's character (look for the context to define
        the movie/Terminator to which this refers) See section 6.23 for more.


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0.  Introduction
This Frequently-Asked Questions list is based largely on the T2 FAQ compiled
by Doug Fierro, last dated 11/10/91.  (Doug's email address is dead -- Doug,
are you out there?)  That is why the initial release of this FAQ was
considered version 2.00.  Due to high demand for information on the Terminator
films, the FAQ has been resurrected.  Contributions/discussion are welcome!
The preferred forum for discussion is news:rec.arts.sf.movies

In the section on time travel, there are probably no absolute right or wrong
answers -- except as far as real-world physics can be applied to the virtual
world of the Terminator films.  I am open to alternate answers to particular
questions, as long as they meet one of two criteria: 1) I find them
reasonable, or 2) after discussion of the topic in a Usenet newsgroup,
consensus is that the explanation is reasonable.  This way I avoid crackpot
ideas ;-)

If you want to contribute something and start out by writing, "I know
someone who knows this guy who met JC's gardener once, and *she* says that JC
says that..."  Well, I probably won't read much further than that.  If you
cite a reference to info that you provide, your credibility will be that much
higher.  (I'm not anally retentive.  It's just that this is supposed to be an
information file, not a *mis*information file. ;-)

If you want to make sure I get your input (questions *or* answers), send email
to my address at the top of this FAQList.


0.1. World-Wide Web access to this FAQ
Those with World-Wide Web (WWW) access (e.g., via browsers such as Mosaic or
Lynx) may access this FAQ.  The URL is:
           http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/films/T2.html
Note that Ross Chandler (chandler@maths.tcd.ie) is the maintainer of this home
page (thanks, Ross!).  Please direct any questions/inquiries about the home
page to him.

Also available at Ross's Web site are a myriad of pictures (JPEG), video
clips (MPEGS) and sounds (AU format) from both Terminator movies.  If
you're a Terminator fan, give this site a visit--highly recommended!


0.1.1. FTP resources
A script of _The Terminator_ painstakingly typed in by Ken Atwell
(katwell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu) is available via anonymous ftp from:
           ftp.cathouse.org//pub/cathouse/movies/scripts/terminator


0.2. Questions that need answering
I need the following information:
*** Reviews/comments on the "T2" or "T2: The Arcade Game" computer games for
    MS-DOS.

*** I need reviews and descriptions of all Terminator-related games (e.g., T2,
    T2 Arcade, Robocop vs. Terminator, etc.) on other computer/videogame
    platforms (Amiga, Sega, S/NES, etc.)



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1. What are the different movie versions?
1.1 _The Terminator_
    Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
    Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
    Production design: George Costello
    Editing: Mark Goldblatt
    Written by: Gale Anne Hurd and James Cameron
    Director: James Cameron
    Released 1984.

As far as I know, there is only one cut of T1.  It is available on VHS
videocassette and on LD.


1.2 _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_
    Producer: James Cameron
    Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
    Production design: Joseph Nemec III
    Editing: Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, and Richard A. Harris
    Written by: James Cameron and William Wisher
    Director: James Cameron
    Released 1991.

The original, theatrical-release cut of T2 is available on VHS videocassette
and LD.  There are also special editions on VHS video and LD that restore
footage edited out prior to release.  The T2 Special Edition LD has several
cut scenes, including the alternate ending.  Also called the 'extended
version,' it comes in two packages: one with movie only, the other also
includes supplements on the making of the movie.

The T2 SE VHS boxed set contains:
     1) Terminator 2: Judgment Day: *not* letterboxed, with additional
     footage.  Note: does *not* include alternate ending.  152 minutes.
     2) Special Edition Supplement: explains the editing choices made,
     and also shows the scenes that were cut out.  Unfortunately, JC is
     talking over much of the alternate ending :-(  40 minutes.

The Terminator Collection SE LD boxed set (with the hologram on the front)
contains:
     1) The Terminator: letterboxed with no additional footage.  108 minutes.
     2) Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Letterboxed with no additional footage; it
     is as it appears in theaters.  139 minutes.
     3) A tape with two documentaries: _The Making of The Terminator_ and
     _The Making of Terminator 2: Judgment Day_.  (Were these shown on the US
     pay channel Showtime?)  This also has all of the trailers for both movies
     (one for T1 and three for T2).  57 minutes.
     4) A limited-edition 24-page book containing information/trivia about the
     making of the Terminator films as well as storyboards, drawings and other
     photographs.


1.2.1. Why were there scenes cut out of T2?
Certain scenes were edited out of T2.  These include a scene of Sarah opening
up the Terminator's head and adjusting the CPU, Sarah's dream sequence with
Kyle Reese, and the legendary extended ending (see section 1.2.3 for more).

JC was interviewed for the TV show _Secrets Revealed_, hosted by William
Devane (because of the difficulty in obtaining copies of the show, JC's
responses are reproduced verbatim):

"Well, 'final cut' really doesn't change anything.  You still have to do
what's best for the film -- and a lot of people have opinions about what's
best for the film.  And, as a responsible filmmaker, you have to listen to
them.

"In the opening of the film, we see a playground after a nuclear war, where all
the playground equipment has been burned and blackened.  And then the ending
was to show the 'alternate future' that came about as a result of the efforts
of Sarah and John.  And then when we put the movie together, and sat and
watched it, it just felt a little too...'sweet'.  It's essentially the movie of
the script.  But no movie is ever the movie of the script -- the script is what
you start with when you start the voyage, and when you end the voyage, you may
be somewhere else.

"So we took the ending off and we went to the dark road, kind of going into
darkness -- the uncertain future...and that seemed to work better.

"We did screen it once, with the happier ending -- because we had already
raised the question to ourselves: 'Is this *really* the right thing?' And the
audience seemed to concur.  So we all looked at each other and went, 'Aha!
See? Eh?' So we very quickly whipped together the alternate, which I'd
already had in mind.

"Sometimes, in that pressure-cooker of finishing the picture, the most
instinctive responses are the best.  And that's really what happened there; it
was just instinct."


1.2.2 What is the missing ending?
The alternate ending is available with the SE version of T2.  It is *not*
edited into the film, but is shown in a separate segment.  Again, from the
TV show _Secrets Revealed_, here is a transcript of the alternate ending:

[After the T-800 sinks into the molten steel, Sarah holds John and looks into
 the camera.  NOTE: This shot is common to both versions.  What follows was
 cut from the theatrical release.]

[Fade to shot of the sun.  Begin voiceover as the camera pans down.  It is
 Washington, DC; the capitol is in the background, as are several futuristic
 buildings.  Pan down to long shot of a park with a fountain and a
 playground.]

Sarah: "August 29th, 1997 came and went.  Nothing much happened.  Michael
        Jackson turned *forty*.  There was *no* 'judgment day'."

[Cut to medium shot of a recreational area around the fountain.  Pan down and
 across children in the playground to a well-dressed older woman speaking the
 narration into a small recording device.]

Sarah: "People went to work as they always do.  Laughed.  Complained.  Watched
        TV.  Made love.  I wanted to run through the street yelling, to grab
        them all and say, 'Every day from this day on is a *gift*.  Use it
        well.'  Instead, I got drunk.  That was thirty years ago.  But the
        dark future which never came still exists for me.  And it always will
        -- like the traces of a dream."

[Cut to a shot of an adult John Connor, pushing a little girl on a swing in
the playground.]
Sarah: "John fights the war differently than it was foretold.  Here, on the
        battlefield of the Senate, his weapons are common sense --"

[Cut to a closeup of Sarah, watching John and the little girl]
Sarah: "--and hope."

[Cut to a shot of the little girl running.]
Girl: "Tie me, gramma! Tie me!"

[Cut to a medium shot of the girl climbing up onto the bench beside Sarah, who
 ties her granddaughters' shoe.  Cut to a closeup of the little girl as she
 looks up at Sarah and giggles.  Cut to a medium shot of the two.]
Sarah: "How's that?"

[Cut to a shot of the girl]
Girl: "Thank you, gramma."

[Cut to a shot of the two; Sarah leans down and gives the girl a kiss.  The
 girl runs back to the playground.  Cut to a shot of the girl running into
 John's arms.  The two embrace, then John helps her onto a slide.]
Sarah: "The luxury of hope was given to me by the Terminator.  Because if a
        machine can learn the value of human life--"

[Cut to a shot of Sarah, smiling, watching the children.]
Sarah:  "--may be we can, too."

[Fade to black.]


1.2.3 What are the other scenes added to T2?
Here's a list of the differences between the theatrical release and the T2SE.
==== CAUTION: Major spoilers for the Special Edition ahead ====

SCENE 1:
[In hallway of Pescadero Mental Institution. Dr. Silberman has just
 finished showing Sarah Connor to some other doctors.]

Silberman: "Douglas, I don't like to see the patients disrupting their
            rooms like this.  See that she takes her Thorazine, would you?"
Douglas: "Sure, Doctor Silberman.  I'll take care of it."

--- Theatrical release:
[Cut to T-1000 patrol car pulling up at John's foster parents' home.]

--- Special Edition:
[Cut to Silberman walking away.  Douglas and black partner enter Connor's
 room.]

Douglas: "Time to take your medicine, Connor."
Sarah: "You take it."
Douglas: "Now you know you've got to be good 'cause you're up for review this
          afternoon."
Sarah: "I'm not taking it, Dougie.  I don't want any trouble."
Douglas: "Ain't no trouble--"

[Douglas hits Sarah in the abdomen with stick.  Sarah hits the floor,
 face down.  Douglas kicks Sarah in the abdomen against the wall. Partner
 charges up electric zapper.]

Douglas: "Yeah, zap her."

[Partner zaps Sarah in the back. Sarah cries out.]

Douglas: "Last call, sugar."

[Douglas opens Sarah's mouth and pinches shut her nose until she swallows.]

Douglas: "Sweet dreams."

[Cut to T-1000 in the patrol car.]
--- Total time of added scene: 1:00


SCENE 2:
[John Connor relating to friend how his mom is a loser.  They ride off
 to spend the money.  Cut to Terminator pulling up on his bike.

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to Dr.  Silberman and Sarah watching an old videotape of Sarah
 describing a recurring dream of nuclear Judgement Day.]

--- Special Edition:
[Cut to Sarah sitting on her *horizontal* bed in her cell.]

Kyle: "Sarah.  Sarah, wake up."
Sarah: "Kyle.  You're dead."
Kyle: "Where's our son, Sarah?"
Sarah: "They took him away from me."
Kyle: "He's the target now."
Sarah: "I know."
Kyle: "He's all alone.  You have to protect him."
Sarah: "I know.  You tell me how I'm supposed to do that.  He doesn't even
        believe me any more.  I've lost him."
Kyle: "You're strong, Sarah.  Stronger than you ever though you could be.  On
       your feet, soldier."

[They hug and kiss.]

Kyle: "I love you, Sarah.  I always will."
Sarah: "I need you."
Kyle: "I'll always be with you.  Remember the message.  'The future is
       not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.' "

[Hugs and kisses.  Cut to Kyle at doorway.]

Sarah: "Stay with me."
Kyle: "There's not much time left in the world, Sarah."

[Kyle starts walking away]

Sarah: "Kyle, Don't go."

[Sarah runs down hallway after Kyle.  Turns corner, runs down corridor,
 and goes through double doors.  She appears in the playground.  She
 screams to the children and grabs the fence.  There's a bright flash.
 Cut to Sarah in real room, with upturned bed.]
[Cut to videotape of Sarah describing her recurring dream of Judgment
 day.]
--- Total time of added scenes: 3:21


SCENE 3:
[In the alley at the phoone booth, after Terminator hangs up on the
 T-1000.]

John: "Well, why doesn't it just become a bomb or something to get me?"
Terminator: "It can't form complex machines.  Guns and explosives have
             chemicals, moving parts.  It doesn't work that way.  But it
             can form solid metal shapes."
John: "Like what?"
Terminator: "Knives and stabbing weapons."

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to officers showing Sarah pictures taken of Terminator at mall.]

--- Special Edition:
[Cut to T-1000 leaving John's foster parents' home.  Kills the dog and
 reads "MAX" on its collar.  Cut to officers showing Sarah pictures
 taken of Terminator at mall.]
--- Total time of added scene: 0:30


SCENE 4:
[At the abandoned garage.  Sarah is pulling slugs out of Terminator's
 back.]

John: "Can you learn stuff that you haven't been programmed with, so you
       can be, you know, more human and not such a dork all the time?"

--- Theatrical Release:
Terminator: "My CPU is a neural net processor.  A learning computer. The
             more contact I have with humans, the more I learn."

--- Special Edition:
Terminator: "My CPU is a neural net processor.  A learning computer. But
             Skynet presets the switch to read only when we're sent out
             alone."
Sarah: "Doesn't want you to do too much thinking, huh?"
Terminator: "No."
John: "Can we reset the switch?"

[Cut to Sarah pulling back Terminator's scalp.]

Terminator: "Rotate the two locking cylinders counterclockwise.  Do it."

[Sarah unscrews plate from Terminator's head.]

Terminator: "Now open the port cover.  Pull to break the seal.  Good.  Now
             remove the shock damping assembly.  You can now access the
             CPU.  Do you see it?"
Sarah: "Yes."

[Terminator view: flashing message: PORT OPEN]

Terminator: "Hold the CPU by its base tab and pull."

[Terminator turns off.  John lifts Terminator's arm.  It stays in place. 
 Terminator's catatonic.  Sarah sets CPU onto end of table.  Picks up a
 hammer, and begins to swing]

John: "No!"

[John covers chip with his hand.]

Sarah: "Get out of my way, John."
John: "Don't kill him."
Sarah: "*It*, John.  Not *him*.  *It*."
John: "Okay, *it*.  But we need *it*."
Sarah: "Listen to me.  Listen.  We are better off on our own."
John: "But he's the only proof we have of the future, and the war, and
       all that."
Sarah: "Maybe.  I don't trust it."
John: "But he's my friend, alright?"
Sarah: "You don't know what it's like to try to kill one of these things. 
        And if something goes wrong, this might be our last chance. So
        move..."
John: "Look, mom.  If I'm ever supposed to be such a great military leader,
       maybe you should start listening to my leadership ideas once in a
       while.  Because if my own mother won't, how do you expect anyone
       else to?"

[John removes hand from the chip.  Sarah swings hammer and hits next to chip]

Sarah: "Alright.  Play it your way."

[She throws down hammer.  John puts chip back into Terminator.]
[Terminator view: System interrupt.  Diagnostic]

Terminator: "Was there a problem?"
John: "No problem.  None whatsoever."
--- Time of added scene: 3:32
--- Time of removed bit: 0:10


SCENE 5:
[Station wagon pulls into gas station with steam coming out of radiator.]

--- Theatrical Release
[Cut to Sarah chewing on a burger, Terminator pouring water into the
 radiator.]

--- Special Edition:
Sarah: "You got any cash?"
John: "I've got a couple hundred bucks."  [Pulls out his wad of money.]
John: "I'll give you half...."

[Sarah grabs the entire wad, hands a couple of bucks back to John.]

John: "Mom!"
Sarah: "Get some food."
John: "Geez.  No sense of humor."
John [To Terminator]: "And that's another thing.  You can lighten up a bit
     yourself. This severe routine is getting old, okay?  I mean, you're
     acting like such a geek.  *Smile* once in a while."
Terminator: "Smile?"
John: "Yeah.  You know, smile.  Watch."

[John approaches pay window.]

John: "Hi.  Nice place you got here.  How's business?"
Woman: "Gimme a break."
John: "OK.  Bad example...  See that guy over there [points to guy on
       phone]?  That's a smile."

[Terminator view: Terminator analyzes smile.  Terminator tries to smile. 
 He looks like a "horse that's trying to smile", to use Schwarzenegger's
 own description.]

John: "That's good.  Maybe you could practice in front of a mirror or
       something."
[Cut to Sarah chewing on burger.]
--- Total time of added scenes: 1:17


SCENE 6:
[Terminator is telling Sarah about who developed the Skynet technology.]
Sarah: "I want to know everything.  What he looks like, where he lives.
        Everything."

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to station wagon pulling up at Enrique's ranch.]

--- Special Edition:
[Cut to Miles Dyson's home.]
Tarissa [on intercom]: "Miles.  Miles."

[Miles typing.  Tarissa comes up behind him and licks his neck.]

Tarissa: "You gonna work all day?"
Miles: "I'm sorry baby, but this is just kicking my ass."
Tarissa: "Miles, it's Sunday.  You promised to take the kids to Raging
          Waters today."
Miles: "I can't.  I'm on a roll.  Baby, this is going to blow them all away. 
        It's a neural net processor."
Tarissa: "I know, I know.  You told me.  It's a neural net procesoor.  It
          thinks and learns like we do.  It's superconducting at room
          temperature.  Other computers are just pocket calculators by
          comparison.  Yeah, but why is that so god-damn important, Miles?  I
          really need to know, 'cause sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy
          here."
Miles: "Baby, I'm this close.  Come here. [Points to large scale model
        reproduction of Terminator chip] Imagine a jet airliner with a pilot
        that never gets tired., never makes mistakes, never shows up to work
        with a hangover.  Meet the pilot."
Tarissa: "Why did we get married, Miles?  Why did we have these children? 
          You don't need us.  Your heart and mind are here.  But it doesn't
          love as we do."
Miles: "I'm sorry, really."
Tarissa: "How about spending some time with your other babies?"
Miles [to his *two* children, one girl, one boy]: "Hey, raging waters..."
Kids: "Yea!"
[Cut to station wagon pulling up at Enrique's ranch.]
--- Total time of added scenes: 2:20


SCENE 7:
[Enrique's showing Sarah the truck that needs a new starter.]
Sarah: "I'm going to wait 'till dark to cross the border."

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to Arnold pulling dust cover off chain gun.  In background, John is
 speaking.]
John: "See, I grew up in places like this.  So I just thought that's how
       people lived.  Riding around in helicoptors, learning how to blow shit
       up."

--- Special Edition:
Sarah: "Enrique, it's dangerous for you here.  You get out tonight too, okay?"
Enrique: "Sure.  Just drop by any time and totally fuck up my life, huh?"

[Sarah and Enrique clasp hands.  Cut to John and Terminator messing around
 with weapons.]

John: "See, I grew up in places like this.  So I just thought that's how
       people lived.  Riding around in helicoptors, learning how to blow shit
       up. But then when my mom got busted, I got put into a regular school. 
       All the other kids were into Nintendo..."
John: "Are you ever afraid?"
Terminator: "No."
John: "Not even of dying?"
Terminator: "No."
John: "You don't feel any emotion about it one way or another?"
Terminator: "I have to stay functional until the mission is complete.  Then
             it doesn't matter."
John: "Yeah.  I have to stay functional too.  'I'm too important.'"

[Terminator picks up minigun and smirks at John.]
--- Total time of "cut" scenes: 0:14
--- Total time of added scenes: 1:44


SCENE 8:
[John and Terminator are trying to prevent Sarah from killing Dyson.]
Terminator: "Killing Dyson might actually prevent the war."
John: "I don't care.  Haven't you learned anything yet?  Haven't you figured
       out why you can't kill people?"

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to toy truck in Dyson's home.]

--- Special Edition:
[Arnold gives John another quick stupid smirk.]
John: "Look.  Maybe you don't care if you live or die, but everybody's not
       like that.  We have feelings, we hurt, we're afraid.  You gotta learn
       this stuff.  I'm not kidding.  It's important."
[Cut to Sarah sneaking up on Dyson's house, loading gun.  Dyson's typing.
 Cut to toy truck in Dyson's home.]
--- Total time of added scenes: 0:48


SCENE 9:
[T-1000 at Dyson's home, hears that Sarah Conner is at Cyberdyne.]

--- Theatrical Release:
[Cut to police cars pulling up at Cyberdyne.]

--- Special Edition:
[Cut to Terminator smashing computer stuff with an axe.]

Miles: "All the disks in my office, all the disks in that office over there. 
        Everything behind my desk and all the processors on my left."
Sarah: "We'll blow it with the C4."

[Miles looks at the large scale Terminator chip built by Cyberdyne.]

Miles [To Terminator, who's still smashing away with the axe.]: Can I...Um...
       Excuse me.  Can I borrow that thing?"

[Terminator hands Miles the axe].

Miles: "I worked a lot of years on this thing."

[Smashes chip.  Cut to police cars pulling up at Cyberdyne.]
--- Total time of added scenes: 0:30


SCENE 10:
[After the T-1000 is shattered by the Terminator, we see that it's beginning
to lose control of its morphing.  Its hand takes on black and yellow stripes
when it grabs a black and yellow striped railing, and its feet squish and
morph into the steel floor pattern on each step.  When it morphs into Sarah
Connor, John looks down and sees that the T-1000/Connor's feet have melded
into the steel floor right before the real Connor begins blasting away at
it.]

There were two long scenes that didn't even make it into the Special Edition. 
They were appended to the supplemental tape.  One is the alternate ending
"Future Coda" (see section 1.2.2), the other follows:

Scene A:
[T-1000 searches John's room, touching everything gently with his fingertips. 
He touches a Public Enemy poster, rips it off the wall and finds a box with
"Letters from Mom" written on it.  It goes through a bunch of photos in the
box.]
--- Total time: 1:25

Also, a snippet of the script that was shown in the accompanying video revealed
that the Terminator was supposed to walk up next to Sarah in the dream sequence
when the Nuclear Bomb goes off.  Its skin gets burned off while Sarah watches
and gets fried....

In the accompanying video, Cameron explains that the scene with the T-1000
searching the room was a "classic example of underestimating the audience."  He
thought it wasn't necessary to have another scene explaining that the T-1000
'molecularly samples' everything it touches.

Cameron also explained why the Future Coda never made it:
   "But there was a sense that, why tie it up with a bow?  If the future
    *is* changeable, then the battle is something that has to be fought
    continuously.  And you an't do it with a single stroke.  That it's the
    dualism, the dynamic between good and eval that's eternal."



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2. Are the Original Motion Picture Soundtracks available?
2.1 The Terminator
Original soundtrack.  Music composed, performed, and produced by Brad
Fiedel (6 tracks).  There are 5 additional rock songs from the film
included.  Total playing time is 35:39.  DCC Compact Classics, DZS-058.


2.2 _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_
Original motion picture soundtrack.  Music composed and produced by Brad
Fiedel.  CD contains 20 tracks (all orchestral); total playing time is 53:45.
Varese Sarabande, VSD-5335.


2.2.1 What songs in the movie are not on the T2 soundtrack?

There are three songs.  One is "Guitars, Cadillacs" written and performed by
Dwight Yoakam (played in the bar where the T-800 gets his clothes).  Another
is "Bad to the Bone" written by George Thorogood, performed by George
Thorogood and the Destroyers (played when the T-800 walks out of the bar).
And finally, "You Could be Mine" written by Izzy Stradlin and W. Axl Rose,
performed by Guns 'N' Roses.  The latter song was written especially for T2;
the former two were not.

"You Could Be Mine" appears on "Use Your Illusion II" (Geffen GEFD-24420).
"Bad To the Bone" lives on the album "Bad To The Bone" (Cat number unknown)
and also the compilation "The George Thorogood Collection"  (EMI CDP 7924152)



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3. What 'Terminator' comics are there?
The license to T1 has been held by two companies at different times: first by
Now Comics, and later by Dark Horse Comics.  These comics expanded on the
canon presented in the T1 movie *only*, not explicitly incorporating the
events of T2.  Currently, this license is apparently with another
publisher.  The license to T2 was obtained by Marvel Comics, which only
produced an adaptation of the T2 movie.  The current status of this license is
unknown.  [Warning!  Spoilers below, especially in the _RoboCop Versus The
Terminator_ synopsis.]


3.1. Now Comics
_The Terminator_ (1988?), issues #1-17.  "It's after the first Terminator
film, set in the future with the focus on John Conner's [sic] battle with
Skynet.  This movie tie-in doesn't follow the film's direction at all, and as
a comic has a lame story with so-so art." [from _Hero Illustrated_ #6]

_The Terminator: The Burning Earth_ (1990), issues #1-5.  Written by Ron
Fortier, fully painted art by Alex Ross (of _Marvels_ fame).  In 2041, John
Connor and the human resistance race to stop Skynet from using its nuclear
stockpile to finally annihilate the human race.

_The Terminator: All My Futures Past_ (1990), issues #1-2.  Written by
Chuck Dixon, fully painted art by Diego and Delsol.  This story takes place in
2029, and chronicles the departure of the Terminator and Reese to 1984.


3.2. Dark Horse Comics
_The Terminator: Tempest_, issues #1-4 (1990).  Written by John Arcudi, art by
Chris Warner & Paul Guinan.  A group of humans, led by Colonel Mary Randall,
travel back in time to stop Cyberdyne Systems Corporation from developing
Skynet technology.  The only things standing in their way are four
Terminators, including a half-human/half-Terminator cyborg sent back in time
by Skynet.

_The Terminator: One Shot_ (1991), one issue.  Written by James Robinson,
fully painted art by Matt Wagner.  Has a pop-up page in the middle.  Tells the
story of a female Terminator sent to kill the *fourth* 'Sarah Connor' living
in Los Angeles, and the person sent back in time to stop the Terminator.

_The Terminator: Secondary Objectives_ (1991), issues #1-4.  Written by James
Robinson, art by Paul Gulacy & Karl Kesel.  Terminators from the _Tempest_
series are still around, but they'll have to go through Colonel Randall (the
surviving time-displaced human resistance soldier from _Tempest_), a Cyberdyne
technician, and a cyborg from the future to fulfill their secondary
objective: kill Sarah Connor.

_The Terminator: The Enemy Within_, issues #1-4 (1991/1992).  Written by Ian
Edginton, art by Vince Giarrano, painted covers by Simon Bisley.  The
human/Terminator cyborg 'Dudley' struggles to reassert his humanity over his
machine side, as questions about the Cyberdyne technician's loyalty arise.
Meanwhile, four human reinforcements from the future and inquisitive LAPD
Detective Sloane join Mary Randall in a showdown with the remaining
Terminator.

_The Terminator: Hunters & Killers_, issues #1-3 (1992).  Written by Toren
Smith, Adam Warren, & Chris Warner, art by Bill Jaaska, Dan Panosian, &
Jeff Albrecht, painted covers by John Taylor Dismukes.  Chronicles the efforts
of a team of Russian Special Forces resistance fighters in 2029 as they race
a group of Terminators sent by Skynet and its Russian arm, Mir, to obtain a
submarine stocked with nuclear missiles.

_The Terminator: Endgame_, issues #1-3 (1992).  Written by James Robinson,
art by Jackson Guice & John Beatty, painted covers by John Higgins.  Dudley
informs Colonel Randall that yet another new Terminator has been sent to kill
Sarah Connor and her baby.  Randall again seeks the aid of Detective Sloane,
who is tracking the serial killer 'Catfish.'  In the hospital in which
Sarah is giving birth, Randall, Sloane, Catfish, and the Terminator all meet
in a surprising final confrontation.

_RoboCop Versus The Terminator_, issues #1-4 (1992).  Written by Frank Miller,
art by Walter Simonson.  In the future, the catalyst for Skynet's sentience is
discovered to be the cyborg Alex Murphy: RoboCop.  A lone female soldier
travels back in time to Detroit -- and destroys RoboCop!  As changes in the
timestream sweep to the future, Skynet sends Terminators to the past, which
*prevent* the soldier from killing RoboCop, who then destroys the Terminators.
Knowing his destiny, RoboCop destroys himself.  Again, changes sweep forward in
time, and Skynet sends back Terminators that once again prevent the destruction
of RoboCop, and force him to merge with Skynet.  The years pass and Murphy
exists only as a virus in Skynet, waiting until he can create himself a new
form.  This new RoboCop prevents the soldier from traveling to the past.  He
replicates himself hundreds of times and takes on the Terminators and Skynet,
then travels back in time and destroys Skynet before it becomes sentient.  And
changes sweep along the timestream...


3.3. Marvel Comics
_Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, issues #1-3. Script adapted by Gregory Wright,
art by Klaus Janson. As with any adaptation, lots of things have been cut
out. This series is notable for its inclusion of scenes that were removed
from the film, like Sarah adjusting the chip in the Terminator's head. Art is
mediocre; this series is only for die-hard, completist fans.



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4. What 'Terminator' computer/video games are there?

From MTM 'Matt the Mentat' Walsh (mtmr@walsh.dme.battelle.org):
    I worked at Williams/Bally/Midway - the official licensee of T2 - when the
    games were being developed.

    T2 Pinball Trivia:
    * note that the T1000 only appears in one corner of the game's playfield
    artwork, and he appears as the normal, Mr. Patrick mode.  This is not
    because Williams didn't know the script (we got to read it) it was because
    the game was supposed to come out before the movie and they insisted we
    did not give away the surprise that Arnold was the good terminator and
    there was a liquid guy who was the bad one.

    * There is a special game rom chip for the Pinball.  If you put it in, an
    interesting thing happens if you have the game set for free play.  If you
    get into the Database mode, the game lists 10 'Possible Choices' of things
    you receive, from 'Extra Ball' to '10,000 pts' to 'ZILCH'.  This is
    supposed to be just like the scene in T1 where Arnold picks from 'possible
    responses' in the hotel.  If you have the special chip, instead of 'Zilch'
    the game has 'F*** You A** Hole' and if chosen the words get big on the
    screen and Arnold says the phrase out loud.  Only a handful of collectors
    got these chips and have sworn to never release these to general game
    operators.


The Terminator (MS-DOS):
First-person perspective walking/driving game.  You may play the T-800 or
Reese.  Your objective (kill Sarah/kill T-800) depends on which character you
choose to play.  Average graphics and mediocre gameplay.

The Terminator 2029 (MS-DOS):
Popular split-screen (first-person combat window/third-person overhead
navigation window) action game.  You play an armoured member of the human
resistance.  You must complete 19 different missions.  Nice graphics, but
gameplay is difficult.

The Terminator 2029: Operation Scour (MS-DOS):
Add-on mission disk for T2029.  More of the same; 12 new missions.

Terminator: Rampage (MS-DOS):
First-person combat game, a la DOOM!  Very nice graphics and good gameplay.
Apparently plagued by speed problems, however.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day Chess Wars (PC CD-ROM):
"Combine the excellence of the Grandmaster Chess game engine with the
high-action science fiction drama of the Terminator, and you get T2 Chess
Wars.  While the animation is lacking in some places, the overall quality of
the game's engine makes up for any shortcomings." [from _CD-ROM
Entertainment_]

T2 (MS-DOS):
Third-person platform/action game.

*** Anyone have any reviews/comments?

T2: The Arcade Game (MS-DOS):
First-person action game, based on the arcade game of T2.  Very nice
graphics, but has received only poor reviews.

*** Anyone care to comment?

T2 (handheld LCD 'video game' by Acclaim):
Has "arcade-style continue mode, roll-over scoring and dual channel
super-sound FX as you take on the T-1000 at the steel mill as Earth's fate
hangs in the balance" [from the T2 Official Movie Magazine]

*** I need reviews and descriptions of all Terminator-related games (e.g., T2,
    T2 Arcade, Robocop vs. Terminator, etc.) on other computer/videogame
    platforms (Amiga, Sega, S/NES, etc.)



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5. What are the filmographies of the some of the people involved with T2?
5.1. James Cameron
As a director:
    [Strange Days (1995), written and produced only.]
    True Lies (1994), also written.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), co-written with William Wisher.
    The Abyss (1989), also written.
    ALIENS (1986), story by JC and David Giler & Walter Hill, screenplay by JC
    The Terminator (1984), co-written with Gale Anne Hurd.
    Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)


5.2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Junior (1994)
    True Lies (1994)
    Dave (1993) [Arnold Schwarzenegger]
    Last Action Hero (1993) [Jack Slater, Arnold Schwarzenegger]
    Lincoln (TV) (1992) [Voice of John G. Nicolay]
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [The Terminator]
    Kindergarten Cop (1990)
    Total Recall (1990) [Quaid]
    Red Heat (1988) [Ivan Danko]
    Twins (1988) [Julius Benedict]
    Predator (1987) [Dutch]
    Running Man, The (1987)
    Raw Deal (1986) [Kaminski]
    Commando (1985) [John Matrix]
    Red Sonja (1985) [Kalidor]
    Conan the Destroyer (1984)
    Terminator, The (1984) [The Terminator]
    Conan the Barbarian (1981) [Conan]
    Jayne Mansfield Story, The (TV) (1980)
    Scavenger Hunt (1979)
    Villain, The (1979) [Handsome Stranger]
    Pumping Iron (1977)
    Stay Hungry (1976)
    Long Goodbye, The (1973)
    Hercules in New York (1970) (Note: as Arnold Strong)


5.3. Linda Hamilton
    Separate Lives (1994)
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [Sarah Connor]
    Mr. Destiny (1990) [Ellen Burrows]
    Go to the Light (TV) (1988)
    "Beauty and the Beast" (1987) [Catherine Chandler]
    Black Moon Rising (1986) [Nina]
    Club Med (TV) (1986) [Kate]
    King Kong Lives (1986)
    Secret Weapons (TV) (1985) [Elena Koslov]
    Children of the Corn (1984) [Vicky]
    Stone Boy, The (1984)
    Terminator, The (1984) [Sarah Connor]
    Secrets of a Mother and Daughter (TV) (1983) [Susan Decker]
    "King's Crossing" (1982) [Lauren]
    Country Gold (TV) (1982) [Josie Greenwood]
    Tag: The Assassination Game (1982) [Susan Swayze]
    "Secrets of Midland Heights" (1980) [Lisa Rogers]
    Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (TV) (1980)
    Reunion (1980) (TV) (1980)


5.4. Robert Patrick
    Double Dragon (1994)
    Fire in the Sky (1993) [Mike Rogers]
    Last Action Hero (1993) [(cameo)]
    Wayne's World (1992) [Bad Cop]
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [T-1000]
    Die Hard 2 (1990) [O'Reilly (Terrorist)]
    Future Hunters (1989) [Slade]
    Hollywood Boulevard II (1989)
    Equalizer 2000 (1986) [Deke]
    Eye of the Eagle (1986) [Johnny Ransom]



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6. Miscellaneous questions
6.1. What year does T2 take place?
John Connor's DOB is February 28, 1985, and he is 10 years old in the movie.
Thus, most of T2 takes place in the summer of 1995.


6.1.1 Are there mathematical errors in the script?
Some details first: T2 begins in 2029; Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14am EDT
August 29, 1997 (trivia: this is a Friday).

 - Sarah is 29 in T2, which would make her 18 in T1.  Sarah was 19 according to
the book for T1, so this is plausible.

 - The T-800 says that in three years, Skynet starts the war.  T2 takes place
in 1995, so 1995 + 3 = 1998, not 1997.  From February, 1995 to August, 1997
is more than two years, so the T-800 might have just rounded it to three
years.

 - From Paul Duncanson (phd@karybdis.cs.rmit.oz.au):
    In T1 Reese accosts a police officer and demands to know the date.
    "Twelve. May. Thursday."  Wrong! It is established three times that T1
    happens in 1984 (title after credits in T1; Sarah's timecard in T1 read
    "Pay period ending 5/19/84"; and John's date of birth (2/28/1985) confirm
    he was conceived around May 1984).  Problem is that May 12, 1984 was a
    Saturday. The problem probably occurred because the screenplay was written
    in 1983 when May 12 did fall on a Thursday.


6.2.  Why did it take the T-1000 so long to show up at John's house in Reseda?
The T-1000 was transported to the Sixth Street Bridge in downtown LA at night
and had access to a police vehicle and John Connor's address.  Yet he only
arrived at John's house in Reseda *after* the T-800 did!  It seems like at
least 4-6 hours between the T-1000 arriving and then getting to John's house.
The greater LA area is big, but not that big.

*** Maybe the novelization has an explanation...?


6.3.  Why didn't the security guard at Pescadero State Hospital not notice the
      T-1000 on the floor?
It is very possible that the T-1000 made itself thin enough to avoid being
noticed.  The T-1000 doesn't necessarily need to keep a consistent thickness
while it is on the floor.


6.4.  Does the T-1000 have to touch the object it takes the form of?
The T-800 told John that the T-1000 could replicate "anything it samples by
physical contact".  It appears that the T-1000 can use a medium to do this
without actually touching the victim's skin.  In scene where the T-1000
mimicked the guard at the coffee machine, the only contact was when the guard
walked on the floor, where the medium was the soles of the shoes the guard
was wearing.

JC, in the T2 SE supplements, explains that the T-1000 ihas the ability to
sample things that it touches at a "fantastic level."  In a scene cut from
the theatrical release, the T-1000, after killing John's foster parents,
searches for clues to John's whereabouts.  It touches the walls, and
immediately determines that there is a cache (of tapes and letters from
Sarah, as it turns out) behind a poster in John's room. (See section
1.2.3.)


6.5.  Why did the T-1000 change back to the policeman at Pescadero State
      Hospital?
It may be that it takes more energy to mimic an object than to just keep the
default form.  When the T-1000 was transported to 1995, it had a default
humanoid form, and that is the one it kept throughout the movie.  It did *not*
copy the form the unfortunate officer Austin who discovered it -- it only
copied the uniform, apparently.

The T2 Annotated Screenplay (see section 10.1) notes that being a policeman
gives the T-1000 a large degree of leeway, thus is a default; also, maintaining
the same form allows the audience to recognize the character.


6.6.  Why did the orderly in Pescadero State Hospital lick Sarah's face?
According to JC, this situation was presented to "dig a deeper hole that Sarah
had to climb out of".  A cut scene (see section 1.2.3) showed Dougie (the
licker) and another orderly hitting Sarah before giving her drugs.  Thus, Sarah
is justified in beating Dougie later on.  Any sexual abuse is only weakly
implied.


6.7.  If dogs are used to identify Terminators, why doesn't the dog at the
      desert hideout bark at the Terminator?
The dog at the desert hideout also did not bark at Sarah or John; maybe the
dog didn't bark at "Uncle Bob" because it knew Sarah and John. Two other
possibilities have been discussed:
    a) Dogs may have to be "trained" to sniff out Terminators.  This implies
       that John's dog Max was just barking for the hell of it, when the
       T-1000 kills John's foster parents.
    b) Not all dogs bark at Terminators.


6.8.  Why does Sarah carve the words "NO FATE"?
Sarah realizes that the future is not predetermined; she can change the
future.  (Remember Reese's words to her: "The future is not set. There is no
fate but what we make for ourselves.")  The words show Sarah's rejection of
determinism; the future is not 'carved in stone'.  The fact that the words
are *carved* is ironic.


6.9.  What gun does Sarah use when she attempts to kill Dyson?
The sound suppresser on the guns is a Sionics model, first designed in the
1960s, and used by the US on M-16s in Vietnam.  The gun itself was a CAR 15
(aka XM177L2), which looks similar to an M16A2 carbine.


6.10. Why doesn't Sarah kill Dyson?
When faced with killing someone, Sarah cannot do it.  This scene is meant to
show that she is *not* like the Terminators.  She has something they don't
have: feelings.  These feelings will not let her kill even one person.  Note
that it is not necessary that Dyson dies -- there are other ways to alter the
future.


6.11. When the T-1000 goes to Dyson's home, what police radio is it listening
      to?
Comments during this scene on the extended LD indicate that whereas the
T-1000 'became' the uniform of the policeman, it took the radio (and gun) so
it could monitor police activity.  The T-1000 is *not* listening to the
radio on the motorcycle.


6.12.  Why didn't the T-1000 try to imitate Dyson and develop Skynet itself?
The T-1000 had one objective: to kill John Connor, not to preserve its own
future.


6.13.  When the Terminator was firing the big machine gun in the Cyberdyne
       lab, is the bullet belt moving or not?
From tighe@convex.com:
    It appeared that the weapon Arnold had in T2 was a General Electric
    minigun, M-134/GAU-2b.  It fires a 7.62 mm round from 6 rotating barrels
    at peak cyclic rates of up to 6,000 rpm.  Barrel rotation is
    powered by an electric motor.  The "ammo chain" is actually an
    enclosed feeder. The bullets are inside of this feeder. That is
    why it appears to not move.  If you look closely, you'll see a
    steady stream of spent cartridges dropping out of the bottom of
    the weapon.


6.14.  Does the T-1000 have a third arm when it is flying the helicopter
       and shooting its weapon at the same time?
Yes, and even a fourth arm in some scenes, if you look carefully.
Although the T-1000 is supposed to "mimic" shapes it comes in contact with,
this seems to be an acceptable modification of its shape.  Note that in the
fight scene at the end of T2, the T-1000 is clearly capable of modifying its
humanoid appearance -- not to mention the many other myriad (partial)
transformations.


6.15.  What was that "ripple" that went through the T-1000 after it fought the
       T-800 and left him behind?
The liquid nitrogen damaged the T-1000 (see the August, 1991 issue of
_Cinefex_ -- referenced in section 10.1).


6.16.  Why did the T-1000 take the shape of Sarah instead of the T-800 after
       it drove the spike through his back?
The T-1000 could have taken either shape; since the T-1000 took the shape of
the guard at Pescadero, it would seem that the T-1000 could have taken the
T-800's shape as well, or at least come close to resembling him.  It may have
thought it would have had a better chance of getting close to John if it took
the shape of his mother.  Don't forget that the T-1000 had no information on
how John's relationship was progressing with the T-800, so it would assume
that Sarah would have been a better choice.

The Special Edition indicates that this behaviour resulted from the damage
experienced by the T-1000 after being frozen and shattered.


6.17.  Why did the T-1000 try to get Sarah to call to John?
Again, discussion has centred on several possible explanations. In order of
plausibility:

1) The theory from the novelization is that the liquid nitrogen temporarily
damaged its vocals.

2) Another possible reason is that the T-1000 had not heard Sarah speak to
obtain a sufficiently suitable sample; therefore, he could not mimic her
voice.

3) Some have suggested that the T-1000 possesses some malevolence.  For
example, it wags its finger in the steel mill after Sarah blows a hole
through its head.  Thus, it may delight in torturing Sarah both physically
(spike through the shoulder) and emotionally (helping her destroy her son).

4) It may be that the T-1000 realized that mimicry was unsuccessful on John
before (when it imitated Janelle).  Thus, it may have overestimated John's
ability to distinguish actual human voices from a synthesis.

5) Finally, the best reason (noted in the Special Edition) is that this odd
behaviour is also a result of being damaged by the liquid nitrogen and being
shattered.


6.17.1 Why didn't the T-1000 kill Sarah later?
Because the T-800 came to her rescue after he broke his arm free.


6.18.  If the T-1000 was destroyed when it fell into the molten steel, why
       wasn't it destroyed when the semi tow-truck blew up?
Molten steel is a *lot* hotter than a gas explosion; notice that the truck did
not melt when it blew up.


6.19.  Why didn't the Terminator "disappear" when John threw the CPU into
       the molten steel?
The time travel of the Terminator movies is not the same as that of the _Back
to the Future_ series.  Although no one is sure what would happen if you
created a paradox, it is highly unlikely (and goes against the laws of
physics for our world) that matter would just disappear into thin air.
Time-travel paradoxes are a lot more complicated than that.  [See section 8
for more on time travel.]

According to the novelization, Judgment Day is avoided; Sarah becomes a
grandmother and John a Senator fighting the Skynet bill in Congress (see
section 1.1.2).  Also in the book, the T-800 jumps in the molten pit on its
own -- as was called for in an early script draft.


6.20.  Isn't the Terminator's arm being left behind in the huge gear going
       to lead to the creation of Skynet anyway?
It was clear from Dyson that it was the CPU that spurred the technology for
Skynet.  In the book, Sarah and John took the parts left from the T-800 and
threw them into the molten pit.


6.21.  When the T-1000 is on top of the elevator in Pescadero State Hospital,
       why doesn't it just cut the cables?
Modern elevators have brakes that prevent them from free-falling to the bottom
of the shaft; some shafts apparently also have 'buffers' at the bottom.


6.22. What about <insert continuity glitch here>?
Several astute people have pointed out minor continuity discrepancies.  These
are not plot problems, they are simply byproducts of the complex endeavour of
shooting a film.  I leave it to Van Ling, Creative Technical Supervisor of
Lightstorm Entertainment, and annotator of the T2 illustrated screenplay (see
section 10.1 for more details), to have the final word.

From: kiraprod@aol.com (KiraProd):
    Arnold's face was NOT grafted via CG onto Peter Kent's body in the bike
    jump into the canal.  You are simply looking at Peter Kent wearing Stan
    Winston facial prostheses to make him look more like Arnold.

    A previous post asked about the windshield continuity problem (the glass
    is popped out during the jump, then is back in until T-1000 knocks it out
    later).  This is an instance of practicality taking precedent over
    continuity.  Yes, the glass popped in the single take we did of the jump
    (an aborted practice take notwithstanding).  However, Jim wanted the glass
    to remain intact for much of the scene, in order to a) help hide the stunt
    driver in most shots, and b) allow for clear closeups of Robert Patrick at
    the same time.  This is not as mutually exclusive as you may think. 
    Even Jim Cameron wasn't going to get to say "let's do this $$$$ gag again,
    and make make sure the glass doesn't pop this time!"  There's a point
    where you have to decide whether to blow the bucks on a retake of a gag
    that hopefully should not yank you out of the film if the continuity is a
    little off, or to plow that money into other, more crucial parts of the
    movie, really finesse a cool CG shot, etc.  I hope you'll agree we made
    the right decision. ;-)

    Van

    PS: I'm the first guy you here and see in the Cyberdyne lab intro scene,
    sitting at a terminal next to the neural net processor.


6.23. What is the make and model of the Terminator?
Reese (in T1) and Arnold (in T2) both refer to the Terminator as a "Cyberdyne
Systems Model 101".  Reese adds "the 600 series had rubber skin.  We spotted
them easy.  But these are new."  Obviously there is more than one variation on
the Model 101.  In T2SE, after the chip-toggle scene, the Terminator reboots
and the startup data is shown from his point of view.  In the top left corner
of the screen it says "Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Model 101 Version 2.4".
Presumably, the metal endoskeleton is Model 101; the flesh-covered units are
Series 800.



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7. Trivia
7.1.  Who was originally cast as the Terminator?
Lance Henriksen (ALIENS, ALIEN^3, Hard Target) was originally cast as the
Terminator, with Arnold as the hero.  Arnold read the script, and asked to
play the Terminator instead.  Henriksen was recast as the cop Vukovich.


7.2.  How many lines did Arnold have in T1?
Arnold's voice is used in exactly 16 lines, with 17 sentences spoken.  The
Terminator has two other lines, one with the voice of a police officer
overdubbed, and one with the voice of Sarah's mother overdubbed.  There are
also many lines with the voice of Sarah's mother, and we learn that the
Terminator is actually saying them, but we don't see it onscreen.


7.3.  What is Harlan Ellison's connection to the Terminator movies?
SF author Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against T1 director JC, claiming
that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories, namely "Soldier" and
"Demon with a Glass Hand".  The concept of 'Skynet' could also have been
borrowed from an Ellison short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must
Scream".  Newer prints of T1 acknowledge Ellison.


7.4.  What is the 'crushing foot' motif?
This refers to the recurring imagery of humanity being crushed by the
machines.  First, in the 2029 sequence of T1, there is a closeup of tank
treads rolling over human skulls.  Next, when the T-800 approaches the house
of the first 'Sarah Connor', it crushes a small toy truck.  Also, after the
Terminator kills Sarah's friend, he walks over her Walkman headphones.  In T2,
the title sequence starts with a Terminator endoskeleton crushing a human
skull. The imagery of the Hunter-Killer tank rolling over skulls reoccurs.
The T-800 crushes one of the roses that falls out of the flower box when it
removes the shotgun at the Galleria (may be a reference to the T2 tie-in
video by Guns 'N' Roses).  The T-1000 treads on the T-800's sunglasses at
Pescadero State Hospital.


7.5.  Is "judgment" spelled correctly?
Both "judgement" and "judgment" are accepted spellings, however, "judgment" is
increasingly preferred.


7.6.  How did Linda Hamilton prepare for T2?
She underwent a rigorous weight-training/exercise program six days a week,
and weapons training with a former Israeli commando.


7.7.  Does Linda Hamilton have a twin sister who appeared in T2?
Yes, she was in the scene at the end where the T-1000 took the form of John
Connor's mother.  Linda actually played the T-1000 version of herself and her
sister played Sarah Connor coming up behind the T-1000.  Linda's sister
also appeared in the scene in which Sarah replaces the T-800's chip and sees
herself in a mirror (this scene is restored in the Special Edition).  NOTE:
these scenes were not done with split screens.  Linda's sister's name is
Leslie Hamilton Gearren and she is a nurse in New Jersey.  Linda Hamilton
played Sarah on the playground during her dream sequence (in fact, she is
holding her real-life son).

(The guard in the mental institute also has a real-life twin brother, who
actually played the T-1000 coming up behind him at the coffee machine.  These
twin brothers were also in _Good Morning Vietnam_ and _Gremlins2: The New
Batch_.)


7.8.  What hardware/software was used to produce some of the FX in T2?
The systems used were Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D/340VGX RISC-processor
workstations.  The software used was Alias Studio 3.0 and Pixar's Renderman
from ILM.  The computer graphics were used, among other things, for the
morphing/liquid metal FX, for putting the pilot's reflection on the T-1000 in
the helicopter, and in the nuclear blast scene.


7.9.  What machine code is displayed on the Terminator's visual display?
6502 assembler, specifically Apple 2+ assembly, taken from _Nibble_ (QV), a
computing magazine.  Other code visible is written in COBOL.


7.10.  What is the literal translation of "Schwarzenegger"?
According to Arnold on Late Night with David Letterman: "black plowman".


7.11. What does "Hasta la vista" mean?
'See you later.'  Literal translation is "until the sight".


7.12. Did the movies win any Academy Awards?
T2 won four Oscars:
    Best Make-up: Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn
    Best Sound Effects Editing: Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders
    Best Sound: Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, and Lee Orloff
    Best Visual Effects: Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr,
                         and Robert Skotak

T2 editors Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, and Richard A. Harris were
nominated in the Best Editing category.  Adam Greenberg was nominated in the
Best Cinematography category for T2.


7.13. How much money did T2 make?
T2 grossed over US$490 million worldwide.  It recouped its total production
costs in its first 12 days of release.  In three weeks, it grossed US$123M
-- its closest competitor (_Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ took six weeks to
reach that mark).  For 1991, T2's total US box office gross for 1991 was
US$204.4M; in the UK it took in 18.1M pounds.


7.14. Miscellaneous trivia
 - T2 co-writer William Wisher portrayed the guy taking pictures of the T-800
after it smashes through the window at the Galleria.
 - The helicopter pilot whom the T-1000 tells to get out is played by Chuck
Tamburro, T2's aerial coordinator.
 - Cyberdyne guard 'Moshier' (Mike Muscat) was also Edward Furlong's acting
coach.


7.15. Is there a real Skynet?
Astonishingly, the answer to this question is a simple 'yes'!  The following
article was carried by Reuters on June 20, 1994:
    ** VSAT CUSTOMER -- AT&T said Allied Van Lines has agreed to
    become the first customer of its new [VSAT] satellite hub service.
    AT&T said under Allied's five-year, multimillion-dollar contract,
    Allied will connect its agents' local area networks to AT&T's
    SKYNET hub service for shipment registration, scheduling and
    dispatch and to process bills of lading.
(Before anyone starts stocking up on plasma rifles and planning to be wearing
2 million sunblock on August 29, 1997, realize that this is clearly not a
automated defense network, but rather a simple communications net. Or is
it...?)



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8. Time travel questions.
Naturally, any theory of time travel is just that: a theory.  For the purposes
of this FAQ, the best we can do is try to apply one or more of these theories,
while still maintaining internal consistency with the info presented in the
films.  There are many theories of time travel in science fiction and comics.
However, most discussions of time travel focus on two theories of 'real-world'
physics: classic Newtonian and quantum mechanical physics.  For a good
introduction to the application of these theories to time travel, see the
article, "The quantum physics of time travel" in the March, 1994 issue of
_Scientific American_.

The classical theory states that there is one existence, and thus a single
timeline.  According to this view, changing an event in the past could
theoretically retroactively change history from the time traveler's POV.
This theory is plagued by problems of "temporal paradoxes".  For example,
what happens if you go back in time and prevent your parents from
meeting?  (According to the movie _Back to the Future_, you will 'fade from
existence'!)

The quantum view is that time travel is possible along distortions in
space-time called closed timelike curves; also, reality exists as a
multiverse of infinite possibilities.  Thus, if you travel back in time and
prevent your parents from meeting, there's no paradox.  Your parents still
meet and conceive you in the timeline you came from (after all, you must have
come from somewhere!).  However, a 'version' of you will *not* be born in the
timeline you traveled to.

bcw3s@fermi.clas.virginia.edu (Brian Christopher Weaver) writes:
"The 'many-universes' interpretation of quantum mechanics solves a lot of time
travel paradoxes.  A time traveler can make _any_ change in the past he/she/it
wants to without endangering their existence because they came from a
_different_ universe whose timeline is untouched by their meddling.

Therefore, there really is no paradox in the Terminator movies.  The
Terminators and Kyle Reese came from a universe where the war actually
occurred, but by the end of T2 a universe had been created where John and
Sarah Connor lived with no global thermonuclear war.  The original timeline
still exists, however, in a parallel universe."

T2 implies that its world is of one existence and a single timeline.
Certainly, it would seem to be futile to send someone back to change the past
in a multi-universe existence -- unless one is very altruistic!  Consider
this: T2 implied that Judgment Day never occurred due to manipulation of the
past.  But it all depends which timeline one looks at:

      1995             2029
   -----|----------------|--(existence with nuclear war) (A)
         \_______________|__(alternate peaceful existence) (B)

Assuming the existence of multiple parallel timelines, if a time traveler
could change an event in 1995 (such as destroying the CPU chip), all that
would result is another existence (B) branching off from 1995.  Note that the
nuclear war still happens in existence (A), even if an event in the past is
changed!

What can we conclude?  Quantum physics *can* explain the events of T1/T2 well.
However, it does not make for a good story.  Although saving humanity in a
*single* timeline out of an infinity is better than none at all, this
situation would likely not have been accepted by the moviegoing public.
Assuming Judgment Day does *not* occur (as per the 'lost ending' of T2), JC
wanted to show that there is "no fate" but what we make of it.  This
philosophy is reinforced by the 'single-timeline' approach.

So there you have it: good physics and a watered-down story, or a ream of
paradoxes and a strong story.  Anyone care to posit a hybrid? ;-)


8.1 How did the (liquid *metal*) T-1000 travel to the past?  Didn't they
    destroy the time machine?

The T-800 was able to go through time because it was surrounded by living
tissue.  The T-1000 could imitate living tissue, but it is made up of alloy
metals, so it is not technically a biological organism, but neither was the
T-800.
 
Some possibilities:

 - Maybe Skynet used a time machine with improved capabilities (apparently
with the letter-boxed laserdisc for T1, you can see a type of bubble enclosed
around Reese before he drops, so this may imply that the same type of time
machine was used in T2).

 - Mimicking living tissue is sufficient.  The mimetic polyalloy is capable of
generating a 'living field' of some sort.

 - The time machine in T2 is in a separate existence from T1 (refer to
section 8 on time travel).

 - The T-1000 was sent through wrapped-up in flesh.  This is the most likely
(but most gory) explanation.  In _The Terminator: Tempest_ comic, an
advanced plasma weapon is sent through time in the belly of a man.  The same
method may be extrapolated for the T-1000.

Regarding the destruction of the time machine, Reese would have been gone
before the machine was destroyed anyway.  He wouldn't know for certain
whether it was destroyed or not.


8.2 How can Skynet exist if the chip and arm were destroyed?

According to the classical, single timeline/universe view, it is impossible
-- unless Cyberdyne Systems develops Skynet technology *independently* of any
help from the future.

Assuming the existence of a multiverse of timelines, this situation can also
be explained.  In the universe in which we see the Terminator technology
destroyed, Skynet will never exist.  However, there must exist at least *one*
timeline/universe in which Skynet technology is developed.  This may occur
due to: a) Cyberdyne independently creating the technology, or b) Terminator
remains originating from yet *another* timeline are left behind.  Thus, the
movies must chronicle *two* different universes: one with the hellish future
dominated by Skynet, the other is the one saved by Sarah and John.


8.3 If John gave a speech to Reese in 2029, who gave it to Sarah and
    conceived John in 1984, and then Sarah told it to John, then who *wrote*
    the bloody speech?

According to classical physics, we have a classic paradox.  No one wrote it,
everybody just memorized it.  Assuming a multiverse, on the other hand, we
can posit that a future John Connor (whose mother encountered a Reese who
perhaps forgot the speech) *did* write the speech, and gave it to Reese.
Reese traveled back to 1984 in *another* universe, and gave it to Sarah
(which we saw in T1).



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9. Will there be a _Terminator 3_ movie?
On _Secrets Revealed_, JC is cagey:
"Well, T3...that's a *secret* of course.  We can't talk about that [laughs]."

(JC is obviously playing on the fact that the TV show is called "Secrets
Revealed.")

Arnold, on T2: "This movie does *not* indicate to me that there's an end to
the story possibilities.  According to what we know about the future, there
were *hundreds* of Terminators built.  This story could go on forever.  I
know Jim [JC] rules out a third film.  But I don't" [from _Starlog Yearbook_,
vol. 10]

Note that by removing the ending of T2 showing Sarah and John in the future,
JC makes it more ambiguous whether or not Skynet will be developed.  I
suppose we'll have to wait and see what the future brings ;-)



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10. Credits
 - A huge credit must go to Doug Fierro (formerly at fierro@uts.amdahl.com)
who compiled the T2 FAQ, upon which this document is heavily based.
 - Ross Chandler (chandler@maths.tcd.ie), in addition to converting this FAQ to
html and maintaining the T2 WWW home page, contributed answers to questions
7.4, 7.12, 7.13, and 7.14.  His contribution to this FAQ is much appreciated.
 - Paul Duncanson (phd@karybdis.cs.rmit.oz.au) helped with questions 2.2.1,
6.1.1, 6.5, and 6.9, among other various clarifications.
 - Brian Christopher Weaver (bcw3s@fermi.clas.virginia.edu) saved me some time
by applying the SciAm article to the Terminator movies in section 8.
 - Francisco X. DeJesus (dejesus@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil) gave me info
provided by the Special Edition LD, and helped on questions 1.2.1, 6.6 and
6.11.
 - Aman Verjee (bkmagic@leland.stanford.edu) provided an interesting alternate
theory in question 6.17.
 - Sanjay Rajput (rajput@shrike.larc.nasa.gov) gave me information on the
T2 SE set in section 1.2.
 - Andrew Tong (werdna@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu) sent me transcripts of the
scenes included with the SE boxed set in section 1.2.3.


10.1. Bibliography
_CD-ROM Entertainment_ (May, 1994), I(1).

_Cinefex_, #21.  The Terminator.

_Cinefex_, #47.  Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

_Empire_ (May, 1992)

_Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The Book of the Film: An Illustrated
Screenplay_ (1991).  By James Cameron and William Wisher, annotations by Van
Ling. Applause Theater Book Pub.  ISBN: 1557830975.  (Available by
telneting to books.com -- highly recommended!)

_The Making of Terminator 2: Judgment Day_.  (1991).  By Don Shea and
Jody Duncan.  Bantam Books: New York. ISBN: 0553353462.

_The Official Terminator 2: Judgment Day Movie Magazine_ (1991).  Starlog
Communications International.

_Scientific American_  (March, 1994).  The quantum physics of time travel.
By D. Deutsch, & M. Lockwood. Vol. 270(3), 68-74.

_Starlog Yearbook_, vol. 10 (Sept, 1992).  Heart of Steel [interview with
Arnold Schwarzenegger].  Starlog Communications International.
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