Why did his name have to be Carl, though?
Because the last movie in the (canon) series had Bob, and John was already taken.
I guess he might have gone with Joe or Ed instead. Larry?
It's just another very generic working class name for a man that literally came off a production line. The sort of name an infiltration robot might choose with no regard for taste.
I honestly thought "Jon Connor (Edward Furlong) from a parallel time line" or something was going to happen later on in the movie.
I was kinda expecting the same thing. If a Carl can arrive from that previous future, so could a middle aged General John Connor.
Okay, and? Its still poor writing and justification for Carl's existence. And this is just a poor defense for it.
1) John wasn't a regular school going kid and prior to the internet I doubt finding that information would be easy as hell. But thanks for justifying why a scattershot is poor writing.
2)The hell are you talking about? Skynet still had access to other military tools and could most likely use other technology to eventually build factories.
3)Unless nukes are organic they aren't doing shit also who tf is Dani to them? And I'm assuming either a)collateral damage or b)they don't know exactly where John is.
4)Again organic shit only.
5)Because they're decent films when they have good writing backing them.
Additionally, all these decisions in T1 & T2 can both be justified with Cameron's original idea that skynet was trying to repent for killing billions of people.
Yeah it really doesn't seem like Skynet gives a fuck about collateral damage. How many Sarah connors died before ours was found? Like 3? I doubt having a second directive set on ensuring skynet's birth would cause any more butterfly effect than killing the leader of the resistance or any random passerby
1. Why was the T1000 sent to 95 instead of 84 to team up with the 800? Whoops, scattershot is
already a thing in T1 & T2... but apparently when
they do it it's good and when DF does it, it's bad writing. It's the
same thing. It's a fun writer's conceit that allows the movie to exist. T2 wouldn't exist without it.
2. All the Roombas in the world can't build a factory no matter how hard they try. A production line is hardly useful outside of what it is designed to build and is hand supplied with materials from outside locations. Not even a 3D printer can build a fully functioning robot in one go, and those hardly even existed in 1997.
Skynet had no hands. It's just an off the cuff example of another "plot hole" that's better left ignored like the others you brought up. Terminator is full of them.
3. How did the 1000 get through then? (Or put the nuke inside an 800, and it will walk itself to the target!)
4.
How did the 1000 get through then? (Or put the chemicals inside a flesh sack and pop it!)
5. They clearly are getting passes for the same sins you're damning DF for.
Repentance: That always has been a stupid idea that makes no sense within the narrative and is clearly just a concept he rolled around in his head for a while and never brought to fruition for a reason.
They're valid points if you're running the CinemaSins channel but pretending like they apply only to DF and not to T1 & T2 as well is obviously motivated. If you wanna criticize the whole series go ahead but don't pretend like this shit only applies to Dark Fate. Dark Fate has plenty of flaws of its own that make it lesser than T1&T2 if you wanna pick on it specifically, but these aint it.
