jedediah@tri-countynet.net wrote:
The other thing is, remember, the movie T-1000 was a prototype. We
don't know if it has any special weaknesses to stuff that could be
found/exploited in a higher-tech society. Like how would it react to
an EMP gun? What happens if you microwave it? Add in that it's
probably very expensive to make the material of a T-1000, and you
won't have many of them. It's an assassin, not a pure war machine.
True. The T-800 is meant for full-on death and destruction
while the T-1000 is meant for more up close and personal ops. But,
here's an idea that hit me just before I went to work this morning.
We know about the limitations on Skynet's time portals, namely
that what goes through must be either wholly organic or coated with
organic material. This is why the Terminators showed up unarmed and
naked in the movies.
What if that constraint didn't apply to Skynet's dimensional
portals? The Terminators could show up fully armed with plasma rifles
and all sorts of nasty weapons. Not to mention the fact that the
Endoskeleton Terminators could march right through backed up with
Mini-HKs, Aerial Hunter-Killers, and the BIG damn Hunter-Killer tanks
seen in the first and second movies. As Skynet's portals gain power,
it could send more and more. This could pose a problem for the anime
universes Skynet is invading.
I don't see the point of changing this restriction. It would be just as
easy to have SkyNet's machine's wrap up any weaponry in airtight bags,
and drop the bags into a vat of some kind of cell culture ... whatever
kind of skin was used on the T100. Or, easier but more gruesome,
capture some animals or humans, skin them, and use their [fresh] skins
as bags. I'm assuming that just wrapping the weapons in ordinary
leather [which could be grabbed from any burnt out store] isn't
sufficient.
Or maybe ordinary leather *is* sufficient, but Skynet just didn't think
of it before.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on all this? Think it could
work out?
Giving the baddies access to their preferred firepower isn't likely to
improve the story. A large part of the dramatic tension in the
Terminator movies was the way the Ts went after their victims...
relentless stalkers with the ingenuity to use whatever resources were
available, against slightly panicked humans with even more ingenuity.
Giving them weapons will make it an incendiary slugfest... who can blow
up the other guy best... no real drama. One might as well watch DBZ.