Questions tagged [terminator-series]
Questions about the entire series of Terminator films including the TV show. Questions specific to one of these films or the series should use that tag in addition.
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How is Dani less white than Sarah or Grace in Terminator: Dark Fate?
While rewatching Terminator: Dark Fate yesterday, one particular quote struck me as rather odd.
At one point, when trying to remain off-grid, Sarah and Dani say the next lines:
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Were the Terminators in the later movie faster and more powerful. or merely shown this way due to improvements in SFX?
As the Terminator movies go on, the Terminators appear to be stronger and to move faster. This includes the models played by Schwarzenegger, two of which were supposed to be the exact same character ...
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Were all of the "good" Terminators played by Arnold Schwarzenegger completely separate machines?
Speaking specifically about the live-action Terminator movies in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played a Terminator fighting on the side of humanity: were each of these machines completely separate ...
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Was the biker bar scene from Terminator 2 filmed on the same night as the beating of Rodney King?
Multiple reputable sources confirm that the biker bar scene at the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgment Day was filmed a few blocks away from where Rodney King was pulled over and beaten by police, and ...
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What was Skynet trying to do in Terminator 3 before they decided to activate it?
In the movie Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines, we see lots of news segments about a dangerous hacker or virus spreading quickly across the whole world. Then the DoD decides to activate Skynet so ...
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How can dogs detect Terminators from real humans?
It's been shown in the Terminator series repeatedly that dogs can tell a Terminator infiltrator from a human being. Did the movie series or book ever explain how they could do that?
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How did Dani-commander know of Carl?
In Terminator: Dark Fate, Dani-commander in 2042 arranged for Carl's GPS coordinates to be burned on Grace's body (before sending her back in 2020) and told her to go there in case she needed help.
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Was Skynet unaware of how John Connor was conceived?
In the Terminator movies, we learn that Skynet sent a machine to the past to kill Sarah Connor in order to prevent John Connor from being born. in response, future John Connor sent Kyle Reese to stop ...
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Why is it necessary to prevent Skynet from killing young John Connor?
We see in Terminator: Dark Fate that John is killed in the 1990s, some years after the events of Judgment Day. So if it has been done, who is the John in Terminator: Rise of the Machines, Salvation ...
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Why the tagline "It's nothing personal" for "Terminator 2"?
One of the taglines for Terminator 2: Judgment Day says
"It's nothing personal".
What is this referring to? I have watched the extended cut, but there seems to be no references to anything ...
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What is the purpose of the pond in Desert Cantos?
In The Sarah Connor Chronicles, episode "Desert Cantos" (wikia link), a drone is seen leaving the pool. My question is simply what is really going on with this pool?
I do not recall seeing any real ...
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Did the UK version of Terminator 2 censor out the lock picking scenes?
In a YouTube revue of Terminator 2, the narrator claims that the UK either tried to or actually did succeed in censoring out the scenes in which Sarah Connor picks several locks in the insane asylum ...
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Why does the T-1000 in the Galleria Mall look at the bronze statue like that?
In the fight scene with the T-800 at the Galleria Mall, there is a scene where the T-1000 looks at a bronze-like statue. What does the slight grin on the T-1000's face mean? Machines don't have ...
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Was Dani's role meant to be a big reveal?
I live in Portugal, where movies are subtitled and where the Portuguese language uses gendered pronouns (for example, a male commander is referred to as o comandante and a female commander is referred ...
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Why did they time travel here?
In Terminator: Dark Fate both Grace and the Terminator travel back in time but their destinations were
dozens of feet above ground causing both to fall.
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