Why Terminators Transport Naked.

[ONEYE]

Why then...if Skynet is able to achieve time travel AND create an almost perfect cybernetic organism AND create a mimetic poly alloy terminator..........is it not able to simply wrap a fooking phased plasma rifle in some damn "grown" skin and send it with every Terminator?

Terminator shows up in 1985 naked...with a skin wrapped gun...unwraps said plasma rifle...and just whoops some Sarah ass.

Living skin luggage. Doesn't have to live long.

I imagine that the T-1000, TX, and T-1001 (T:TSCC) "polymimetic" properties are enough to successfully transport through the TDE (time bubbles).

Traveling with Cameron this way = cool, with your Mother = not so cool.

do Terminators have gentials? and if so why?

Yes, to be a better infiltrator. That sounds kind of naughty, doesn't it?

 

[Morbo]

^The Sperminator? can I say that here?

 

[LordAzrael]

In the comics they did actually use the living luggage trick - took a captured human and put a gun in his guts, stitched him back up, travelled back in time then ripped the gun out.

So yeah - I would have figured skynet could build a living weapons case that could do the trick.

 

[SilentSurfer]

They transport naked for the same reason that they have living human skin - Only Living Organic tissue can time travel, so no clothes can get through. If the terminators did not have the skin, then they could not time travel, because they are not organic. It actually explains that in one of the movies or one of the episodes of the series (Cant remember which, theres so many now!)

Some fans you are. Kyle Reese said it in T1 when asked by Silberman why he had no weapons from the future. "You go naked... Something about the energy field generated by a living organism; nothing dead will go... I don't know, I didn't build the fuqing thing."

In Chronicles, when the Endo head bounces forward in time with them.....BS

T1000 had no living organic tissue. at all. ever.
he's just a big plot hole... just sayin'.

Bingo! Always my biggest problem with T2 and the major reason I have a hard time accepting it as a true sequel even though Cameron made it. Now, if you pretend that one of the properties of this advance prototype is that it does artificial generate the needed energy field (which it would have to, but was never explained) then I can buy it a whole lot easier. Same with the TX.

BTW, that video is awesome. The world is a better place because of it.

 

[nash]

What if you time travel but your testicles get left in the future?

 

[creecher]

I don't think it has anything to do with living tissue or not. I would think the Terminators transport naked because they come fresh off the production line. They get sent back and acquire the fashion of the day under their own terms. When there's world war happening in the future I don't think fabric production for vintage fashion purposes is a high priority.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I don't think it has anything to do with living tissue or not. I would think the Terminators transport naked because they come fresh off the production line. They get sent back and acquire the fashion of the day under their own terms. When there's world war happening in the future I don't think fabric production for vintage fashion purposes is a high priority.

Good points that make a lot of sense, but please pay attention and read the following...

Kyle Reese said it in T1 when asked by Silberman why he had no weapons from the future. "You go naked... Something about the energy field generated by a living organism; nothing dead will go... I don't know, I didn't build the fuqing thing."

All other movies and shows have crapped on this idea, even James Cameron for T2 in regard to the T-1000.

 

[creecher]

Some fans you are. Kyle Reese said it in T1 when asked by Silberman why he had no weapons from the future. "You go naked... Something about the energy field generated by a living organism; nothing dead will go... I don't know, I didn't build the fuqing thing."

I don't know, sort of explains everything.

 

[Boba_G]

The T-1000 are actually given a thin layer of skin, which burns off during the time-travel. Since it can take any form, it just does not need the full bidy of skin that other Terminators do (so as to be undercover in the modern world). Just a theory
Another theory is that the T-1000 can actually replicate the structure of living organisms, so it is essentially covered in "simulated" skin.

 

[FelMar]

What if you time travel but your testicles get left in the future?

no bueno

 

[prefused]

The T-1000 are actually given a thin layer of skin, which burns off during the time-travel. Since it can take any form, it just does not need the full bidy of skin that other Terminators do (so as to be undercover in the modern world). Just a theory
Another theory is that the T-1000 can actually replicate the structure of living organisms, so it is essentially covered in "simulated" skin.

theories are great. and it would've taken 1 unintelligible line of dialogue from arnold to explain this conundrum.
but, that didn't happen. and we're still stuck with the plot hole.
also, there's no way an alloy can "replicate" anything similar to being alive.

 

[SilentSurfer]

The T-1000 are actually given a thin layer of skin, which burns off during the time-travel.

I'll take that one step further and suggest that the T-1000 didn't have to have human form when it went through; we didn't actually see him as he arrived, just naked moments later when the cop ran into him. He could have been a shapless mass wrapped in the skin grown for cyborgs. If he had no form until after transport, that would explain why he isn't covered in cyborg blood. There would have had to be blood if the flesh were "living", right?

This is fun, but bottom line is James screwed up because he was trying to trick us into thinking the T-1000 was the human good guy like Reese, even though all the marketing suggested otherwise before we even saw the movie.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

This is fun, but bottom line is James screwed up because he was trying to trick us into thinking the T-1000 was the human good guy like Reese, even though all the marketing suggested otherwise before we even saw the movie.

I'll never understand why the hell they gave that twist away ahead of time because it was a damn good one, or would've been anyway.

 

[D'oh!]

Even though it wasn't explained, when I first saw T2, I "assumed" the T-1000 did have skin -- up until the truck he was driving blew up and he walked out of the flames.

 

[ascend1.0]

The T1000 is a totally new living sentient being created by Skynet. In the future skynet is god gone bad. The T1000 must be a living entity, if not where is the cpu, where is any evidence that it is just a machine?

 

[SilentSurfer]

Well put. Maybe what makes it what it is is what allows it to pass through the displacement device.

 

[prefused]

The T1000 is a totally new living sentient being created by Skynet. In the future skynet is god gone bad. The T1000 must be a living entity, if not where is the cpu, where is any evidence that it is just a machine?

or T1000 was nanotechnology. in which case you'd need a fancy microscope to see cpu components.
in either case, it was made of metal. so, no dice for time travel.