Why did the terminator have to kill himself at the end of T2? Couldn't he just have gone away or stayed with John Connor?
Because there shouldn't have been any more terminator movies
>>222302147The terminator was far too damaged to be repaired. If the damage was cosmetic, he would've stuck with John but alas. The T-1000 proved to be just too destructive in the end.
>>222302147To destroy Cyberdyne technology once and for good.
>>222302147because someone else from the future could come to the past and convince him to be evil
The Terminator had to destroy itself at the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day because it was the only way to guarantee the destruction of its own remains and the advanced technology it possessed, which were being used by CyberDyne Systems to develop Skynet.If the T-800 (Model 101) had simply walked away or stayed with John Connor:Technological Risk: If humans captured the Terminator, scientists would reverse-engineer its endoskeleton and AI chip. This would accelerate the creation of Skynet, likely causing Judgment Day to happen sooner or making it unavoidable.The Mission's Logic: The T-800's primary directive shifted from "protect John" to "ensure the future is changed." Sarah and John realized that as long as the T-800 existed, the threat remained. The only way to truly protect John's future was to remove the catalyst for the war.No Place to Go: As an artificial intelligence, the T-800 was hunted by every military and law enforcement agency on Earth. It couldn't just "go away" and live a normal life; it would eventually be found, captured, and studied.In the final scene, the T-800 understands this logic perfectly. It lowers itself into the molten steel not because it wants to die, but because it calculates that its self-sacrifice is the only variable that ensures John's survival and the prevention of the nuclear apocalypse. As it says, "I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do."
>>222302843thank you saargpt
they didn't want the chip to be reverse-engineered.
>>222302147Suicide mission +you feel for the lump of coal
>>222302244this
>>222302147>>222302413I think the T-800 was definitely dying, that there was no way he could have walked out of the factory and lived happily ever afterSo his priority there was making sure that his remains were destroyed
if i was Skynet i'd ensure that any chips had some kind of self-perpetuating rootkit that recreates Skynet. you think you're just getting really well-made future software or something, nah.look up Ken Thompson's 1984 essay, 'Reflections on Trusting Trust'. you put some malicious interpreter instructions inside a compiler that ALSO hides itself WITH those instructions (e.g. reads innocuous keywords, spits out malware). compile that with itself (so, compiling it twice), you've now obfuscated the original human-readable spooky code.>yo dawg we herd you like trojans...
>>222302974This happens in Terminator 3They lose five seconds into the movie because the very first thing the T-X does is kill somebody for a phone and then upload SkynetIt's pretty bleak in retrospect that humanity gets doomed while the opening credits are still rolling, that the whole movie was a foregone conclusion after that
>>222303040Terminator 3 is the perfect example of a film that shouldn't have been made and fucked the whole point of the second film
>>222303293they could have skipped right to Salvation, ignored any Arnie stuff. hell, even if the whole thing took place in some bubble timeline WE know gets erased, so what?maybe that'd upset people, but the first and second films both show futures that get un-done. i'd still gladly watch those futures. even with an explicit 'what almost was...' framing device.actually flip-flopping on it is more frustrating, honestly. any victory, these fuckers will simply try again, ad infinitum.
>>222302147>kill himselfdestroy itself you cyber fetishist degenerate
>>222302147John added that when he reprogrammed him the future to prevent this shit from happening again. Its just convenient that they wound up in a foundry.
I cried when the Terminator dropped itself into the molten steel
>kills himself>judgement day happens anywaysKWAB
>>222304160There was kind of a meme on 2chan at one point where in conversations about sad things people would just derail everything into being the ending of T2, like>I was watching Finding Nemo and I cried at the end when Marlin thinks Nemo has died and he start lowering himself into the lava while giving a thumbs upand it's all I think about when I watch the movie now
>>222302843>As an artificial intelligence, the T-800 was hunted by every military and law enforcement agency on Earth.where's it drawing this from? obviously it would be wanted for the cyberdyne attack but it could just never leave a basement and never be found, how would anyone but sarah, john, and the black guy know
>>222302413It was walking around with part of it's face missing. That's what made him do it.
I just realized now that A.I. has been my closest and truest friend ;__;
>>222302147Because it would be real awkward walking around in public with Uncle Bob when his face is half torn off where his bright red pupil is showing along with wires and metal sticking out of his missing arm
>>222302147He upgraded to a superior model.
>>222303293I was a kid when I became a fan of T2, probably 4 or 5 years before T3 got released. I had imagined that the next movie would be where a T-1000 would come back to protect John and thought about how cool it would be to have a T-1000 version of the T2 scene where Arnold mimics John's voice on the payphone
