I just watched T2 last night, been a year or two since I?ve seen it in it?s entirety (it was the 3D theatrical realease, what ever year that was). The Uncle Bob T-800 is pretty ****ing stoic. I never realized how little lines he has and he really just speaks when spoken too. It?s a great Arnold performance. A lot of it is John and Sarah talking while he looks off into the distance, scanning.
The thing that is annoying about the Terminator in T3, Genisys and Dark Fate is how often he rattles off percentages and probabilities with hard numbers. It?s ****ing stupid and ridiculous. He never does that in the first two. He never sounds like ****ing C-3PO or a stereotypical robot. In T2, the T-800 always speaks about things in a matter-of-fact manner. Once John starts teaching him ****, he actually starts developing a personality and becomes cool. The little smile he has in the bunker is appropriate in that moment (meaning he gets it) and you get the idea that he actually *likes* the guns and the armory. It?s a Terminator, through and through. That little flippant ?whatever? look he gives John when asked if he learned why he can?t just go around killing people on the way to Dyson?s is subtle and brilliant. A far cry to the over acting Arnold would do as the T-850, Pops and Carl in later movies. It?s almost like Arnold forgot how to play the character after the 90s and writers forgot how to write him.
There is no way in hell that character, as seen in T2, would develop into a cuckold like Carl. Owning a drapery business? Being hospitalable and serving guests beer with cut up limes? You got to be kidding me. If he had lived on past T2 (which would be impossible considering the damage he sustained at the steel mill), he?d Be an enforcer type that blows **** up,
