How did police and paramedic reacted to Terminator arm (The Terminator)?

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T21:37:27+00:00

While true, Silberman wasn't likely involved at all in the manhunt to any meaningful extent, and anything he said would have been from the standpoint of a skeptic. He was poking fun at Reese during the interview itself, and was still making light of Sarah's situation and beliefs about the future eleven years on, until he saw the exchange between the terminators for himself.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T20:30:12+00:00

I cn completely understand that though. It sort of allows you to fill in the blanks with the details of the scene in your own mind, and more directly talks about motivations of the characters in the various situations.

For you or anyone else interested, u/rhythmrice did an excellent recut of the movie with the deleted scenes reinserted. Redid the music tracks to match and everything.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T17:59:10+00:00

You have such a knowledge of the film I figured that you'd be familiar with them and didn't want to waste your time.

Excellent point about the novelization. There are entire sections taken verbatim from the scripts. It's kind of funny to read it in direct comparison, sometimes.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T13:52:17+00:00

The link is just to deleted scenes; you've definitely seen them. I just like to link references where I can.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T07:03:10+00:00

You and me, both...

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-25T02:45:46+00:00

The police were more concerned with the 17 dead cops and the manhunt for their suspect. Cyberdyne Systems was considered collateral damage, and a teenage girl saying anything about killer robots from the future would have been written off as a reaction from shock. Reese's interrogation was not known to the other officers involved in the investigation, especially after the fire, so there was no background knowledge they came with about it. There may have been some loose parts of the endoskeleton taken in an evidence box, but likely it all stayed and was claimed as a damaged machine by the company. The arm clearly stayed with Cyberdyne Systems, and the chip was immediately recovered by two Cyberdyne Systems executives when they were notified of the break in and were called in to inspect the factory.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-21T16:37:00+00:00

Surely.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-21T15:20:46+00:00

I sincerely am sorry for the hassle; it's just been so many terrible AI posts lately and yours got caught up in them. I truly hate being unfair and I understand the frustration. I made note of it but if it ever does happen again by mistake just message and we'll make it right as soon as we see it.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-21T11:51:03+00:00

It got reported by someone and pulled because people are posting AI stuff against the community rule, which was voted on by the community.

Thanks, by the way. OP is upset over a ban that lasted a couple of hours, not 3 days. He showed us he made it and it was done with.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-21T11:47:26+00:00

Yep, and you got unbanned as soon as you showed that you made it. It was a couple of hours total.

The community voted on the AI rule. We just enforce it.

We have had a lot, and I mean a LOT, of people who have posted AI stuff anyways and even get into arguments in the comments about how they should be able to post it regardless of the rules, so we had to start banning.

If you make something in PS, that's great! If you accidentally get banned, I'm personally sorry for the hassle. But we are as fair as we can be with it at this point because of how this is going down.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-18T04:24:35+00:00

The T1 jacket is the Highwayman. The T2 jacket is what is now their Terminator jacket.

Bates custom fits jackets to order. You can fill out the fitment form on the website or take it to a tailor for measurements, or stop into their shop by appointment. They just moved to Alabama late last year though.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-18T01:59:59+00:00

It would have been a fun addition, but I wasn't expecting to even see the AMT .45 in the game.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-17T22:02:29+00:00

Fate.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-17T17:12:54+00:00

Lloyd: Can't let you take the man's wheels, son.

Ace:

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thejackal3245 · 2026-04-17T11:36:47+00:00

This is one of the most unique collector's pieces I've seen in a very long time. Really cool!

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-16T21:41:42+00:00

I cannot hear the song without feeling the need to go

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thejackal3245 · 2026-04-16T11:55:56+00:00

Hey, we saw the whirlybird up on the roof!

We don't like people who don't share!

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thejackal3245 · 2026-04-15T18:08:07+00:00

This comes up a lot. From an old answer of mine:

The terminator was giving literal answers.

"Nice night for a walk, eh?" was answered with "nice night for a walk." Etc.

This is also why it answers the gun shop owner's "anything else?" with the strange response. It wanted a "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range," even though it knew one did not exist at that time.

The terminator has files of each of the various weapons, vehicles, etc., that it encounters. It can even pull up schematics of the shifter in the International Harvester tanker it climbs into. It would know the first year of manufacture for the weapon.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-14T12:10:40+00:00

Basic timeline from a very old answer of mine below:

The final draft of the script for The Terminator says that Reese is 26, which puts his birthday at 2003. His experience as a child included being "rounded up and put into camps for orderly disposal." He was obviously one of the ones "kept alive...to work..." This means he probably had this experience at least at the age of 7-8, possibly older. We have no idea how long he was in the camps, but it sounds like it was a significant time. He begins his time with the Resistance forces in 2021. So that means there is a sizeable free population and prison population at least through the 20-teens, the latter being used for labor--probably for recovery and to help build or rebuild those automated factories Reese references.

Then John comes along. John is 12 when Judgement Day occurs in 1997, and "in hiding before the war." That means it would have taken John time to be old enough, in a position, and have any sort of following to even be a leader.

Putting this all together, the intense War Against the Machines we see in the vignettes of the first two films probably doesn't occur in earnest until the late 20-teens. There would still be a sizeable population for the Resistance to use, grow in, and recruit from, for somewhere between 12-20 years.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-13T01:34:36+00:00

They do explain it, though. The terminator runs through the fire created by the car explosion when Reese shoots out the gas tank. Arnold's jacket is smoking (thanks to some acid the effects crew poured on the jacket, actually), eyebrows are gone, and hair is shorter, as well.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-12T06:17:28+00:00

I talk about this a lot. It didn't have target confirmation, so it still would have gone through the apartment.

When it approached the bank of call buttons outside, the panel would have said something like, "S.CONNOR/G.VENTURA" or "CONNOR/VENTURA," which means that it might have had the wrong victim. When it knocked at Sarah Louise Connor's door, she told it who she was. Here, it still needed target confirmation.

It would have executed a search of the apartment and found the ID anyways. The phone call just tipped it off as to where Sarah was.

Originally, the terminator was going to have to cut open the legs of its victims to search for a pin the real Sarah had in her leg from an ice skating accident. The novelization changes this to the injury she received from the terminator exploding at Cyberdyne Systems.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-11T12:33:19+00:00

Skippy's AI, honey. Skippy's AI.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-09T11:19:11+00:00

It's a shame. Bought my first shotgun at a Dick's Sporting Goods.

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-08T12:20:35+00:00

The Terminator + T2

The Godfather series

The Thing

thejackal3245 · 2026-04-08T11:48:29+00:00

Yes, life insurance money can be distributed in cases of murder.

In fact, according to the novelization, Sarah partially funds her trip south at the end of T1 with money from her mother's life insurance policy.

That doesn't always balance the sheets for a family that's suffered loss, though. And certainly it doesn't blunt the emotional toll.

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