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If T-800s sent back in time were made to be very hard to destroy, why

posted 7 years ago by Arvin-G-Borkar
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were they built to have battery that would be susceptible to rupture, instead of diverting that energy to another battery for which it had or closing it off to further damage the T-800?

In other words, we see that the T-800 is this movie was built with two batteries, one of which ruptured. But what would have made it susceptible to being destroyed was not having a sharp cutting tool. Had John not had a sharp cutting tool, it would have blown up right then and there. Since the T-800 was their defense against the T-X, it would have allowed the T-X to easily find them and kill both of them.

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7401) 6 years ago

It's said that it is different from the T-800 Terminators from before. It really is only like that so it could blow up the T-X at the end.

[–] mobocracy (845) 4 years ago

Unforseen engineering challenge?

I would guess the risk is some kind of non-explosive battery failure resulting in a loss of power. Like our own vital organs, the batteries were shielded inside the rugged rib cage and not expected to be punctured by any weapons they would be exposed to in the late 20th or early 21st century. They probably didn't have the ability to design in armor resistant to a plasma cannon.

iMHO, the real design failure is that both batteries are in the same part of the torso, making them both more or less equally vulnerable to a single shot. It'd have been better to have the separated. And if explosive damage is a possible risk, you'd think there'd be some kind of emergency ejection mechanism that would shoot them out.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7401) 4 years ago

Now thinking of it it is too bad Kyle and Sarah didn't have this exact model come after them. Because then the Terminator would've blown to smithereens after chasing Kyle and Sarah to the underpass from the damage it received from the shotgun Kyle used. Then the movie would've been over too quickly though. Or heck, if the explosion it was in at the end had damaged it's hydrogen fuel cell and it blew to smithereens at the end right after after coming up out of the ash. Reese and Sarah would hear the noise of the cell about to explode and get away. Then Reese still dies but just from the bullet wound he received earlier. I guess it's good that model didn't come about til Terminator 3 I guess.