Could you just hide from the terminator?

[Zyklon R]

He didnt. He just heard about how epic it was back in the day and decided to check it out.

lol
Makes sense.

 

[Amerikuracana]

Is there a cover charge?

4.50 or a firm handshake.

 

[TheNinja]

The thing is the terminator might just start killing everyone you know or care about. He might start with parents, kids, cousins, etc. If you go into hiding with ALL your relatives he might just start killing random people or blowing up a school and say that unless John Connor comes forward there will be more attacks.

It would be very hard to hide forever or very hard not to turn yourself in if he starts killing everyone you love or ever knew in your life.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

The thing is the terminator might just start killing everyone you know or care about. He might start with parents, kids, cousins, etc. If you go into hiding with ALL your relatives he might just start killing random people or blowing up a school and say that unless John Connor comes forward there will be more attacks.

It would be very hard to hide forever or very hard not to turn yourself in if he starts killing everyone you love or ever knew in your life.

Like Herr Starr!! (timestamped)

 

[Ken Fresno]

Watching The Terminator. If you made the initial escape, would you be able to just disappear and have him not find you? Let's even say it's the 80s. He doesn't have super powers to detect your profile, but he's like a fairly smart detective.

If you got away once, and moved somewhere that nobody knew you, and used a different name, how would he find you? If you picked a random island, or another country, could you just live out your life with your new identity? How would he find you?

Idiot Sarah told her mom where she was for absolutely no reason, which was a lame plot convienence, but if she hadn't done that, they literally could have gone to any other state and it would have taken hit-the-lottery luck for the t-100 to find them.

It feels like you would have to live out your life in that remote location without ever revealing to anyone that you're not who you're pretending to be. And your body can't be identified when you die.

Otherwise, wouldn't they be able to determine your general location in the distant future, then send the Terminator back there.. instead of LA?

 

[HunterSdVa29]

just hide out in that random non OSHA compliant factory from the end of Cobra

problem solved

 

[BisexualMMA]

just hide out in that random non OSHA compliant factory from the end of Cobra

problem solved

I pointed out in another thread once that Brian Thompson gets a hole poked through his chest front to back in The Terminator, then back to front in Cobra.

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

 

[The Diplomat]

They had pics of him from the California police shooting. The Terminator, who allegedly was programmed to avoid authorities, was a minute away from being tge most well known face to law enforcement. He would have spent so much of his time avoiding authorities, that he couldn't have looked for anybody.

Lucky for him that he obliterated the entire local PD.

 

[ClubFoot]

Why not just fly to Europe and chill?

How is the Terminator going to get through airport security and the metal detector?

 

[Amerikuracana]

80% of statistics are complete bullshit

But there's only a 50% chance of that.

 

[BEER]

Skynet can send robots back in time, and it appears to be linear so if she isn't dead after a certain amount of time, send another one back to the same point and try again.

 

[Amerikuracana]

Why not just fly to Europe and chill?

How is the Terminator going to get through airport security and the metal detector?

lol good point.

By boat. But I mean, how would he know you are there?

 

[Amerikuracana]

Skynet can send robots back in time, and it appears to be linear so if she isn't dead after a certain amount of time, send another one back to the same point and try again.

Different timeline. Not you anymore.

 

[BEER]

Different timeline. Not you anymore.

If it creates a different timeline when a Terminator is sent back, why does Skynet give a shit? Going back won't alter their timeline at all.

 

[Amerikuracana]

If it creates a different timeline when a Terminator is sent back, why does Skynet give a shit? Going back won't alter their timeline at all.

And that's why the movies make no sense. Yay!! We like stupid shit!!

 

[BEER]

And that's why the movies make no sense. Yay!! We like stupid shit!!

I mean, I'm pretty much fine with it being linear timeline. You'd ultimately have multiple Terminators roaming around in different "spots" in the timeline, but that would make a good comedy. A new one gets sent back and the older ones having to witness their time change.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I mean, I'm pretty much fine with it being linear timeline. You'd ultimately have multiple Terminators roaming around in different "spots" in the timeline, but that would make a good comedy. A new one gets sent back and the older ones having to witness their time change.

WIth Star Trek logic, you wouldn't notice the change. You would at a moment just have all the memories and life experiences up to that point appropriate for that timeline. This could kind of be happening to us every second, and we wouldn't know it.

With quantum mechanics and things we have yet to understand, it wouldn't surprise me if both the past and the future were in (and were themselves) constant flux, as in not even really existing.

 

[DaleBoca]

Two of training and he’ll be toast.

Bring him on.

 

[Henry Swanson]

Terminator would never find me because I’m not listed in the phone book.