It was a last ditch effort by Skynet to win. What I don't get is that one T1, Reese says they destroyed the time machine after he went through to prevent anyone or anything else from going through.

So wtf happend to send the T1000 back in time in T2? Did the events of T1 cause this to happen?

shoulda sent a bomb
like why not

>>66847655
You would have to be lucky to send back a bomb, and for it to explode just as Sarah Connor was walking past

>>66847717
giant bomb blows up the city

the time travel aspects of terminator are gay

they just about work well in terminator 1 if you take that movie on its own

it makes no sense from T2 onwards

>>66846597
whatever is convenient for the plot of the movie

>>66846597
skynet is dumb as fuck. just send a terminator while sarah is still in the womb or a baby. game over

>>66847745
Then you kill the guy that invented the machines and shit or his granny or something.

>>66849002
Yeah but they would kill Sarah Connor that way.

>>66847386
Every Terminator film after the first is Non-Canon, the first one is the only that has any kind of internal consistency. After that it's just an excuse for big explosions and epic one liners.

The unstated implication of the first three films is that Skynet is somehow managing to open a fixed portal that leads x amount of years into the past.
So the first Terminator gets sent back to 1984, then eleven years later a second Terminator is sent to 1995, then nine years later a third Terminator is sent back to 2004. It's logical, and it works.

There are a few reasons this is no longer a thing, not the least of which being that Cameron has since stated that the T-1000 was sent back in time the same year as the original Terminator, and that it was a "last resort", that even the machines were afraid of this T-1000 - which is stupid.
Another reason that this no longer works is that Genisys completely fucked with the rules of time-travel established in the OT, allowing multiple passengers within one journey and even allowing forward time-travel - which is also stupid.

>>66852853
No it doesnt work because each terminatir was sent back for reasons because of a changed timeline
In other words there is no internal consistency and never was

>>66848929
But they dont who sarahs parents are

>>66852977
What? There's totally an internal consistency in the first three films.
Skynet sends a machine back, nothing happens, so they rationalise that it didn't work and a few years later they try again.
How does that not make sense?

T3 should've revealed it was all huge ruse orchestrated by the chinks, Russians or whatever.
They'd created advanced cybernetics and a teleportation device, sent brainwashed POW Kyle Reese and their robot assassin after some name they picked at random, out of a random American phonebook.
The nude no gear rule is an extreme on-site procurement exercise, or just for funsies.
T-1000 and nice Arnie is the next stage of testing when they've furthered their tech, and also a convenient chance to fuck up Cyberdyne, covering the tracks they left in the 80s and destroying a tech giant that would do Government contracts.

>>66847655
In T1, the time machine can only send living things through, which is why you have to go through naked and unarmed (though it should have burned their hair off too). Liquid metal T-1000 shouldn't have been able to go, but Hollywood bullshit, you know how it is.

>>66846597

LEGIT ANSWER

THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE TWO TERMINATORS IN THE FIRST MOVIE BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE BUDGET OR THE TECH

TERMINATOR TWO LET JAMES COMPLETE HIS ORIGINAL VISION

ALSO, LISTEN TO SARAH'S FUCKING VOICE OVER IN THE BEGINNING OF T2

https://youtu.be/_Mg7qKstnPk?t=1m57s

>>66853524
cruise control, etc

Plasmarifle within the 40 watt range

>>66847386
It's pretty straightforward as laid out in William Wisher's novelisation of T2 that includes the extended Future War stuff Cameron had to cut for budget and time.

>Skynet brought to its knees by co-ordinated strikes by human resistance, defence grid smashed
>Anticipating this, it had thrown everything and the kitchen sink at getting a prototype time machine online
>A T800 is to be sent back to 1984
>As a failsafe the prototype T1000 is to be sent to 1995 to kill John and Sarah there in the eventuality the first Terminator doesn't accomplish its mission
>The T-1000 rolls out of the assembly press and placed in a 'flesh cocoon' minutes before the the resistance penetrate Skynet's compound and deactivate it forever, they arrive moments after Skynet has dispatched the Terminators to their respective points in the timeline

Skynet didn't live long enough to see if it worked. As Kyle explains in Terminator 1, 2029 is 'one possible future', it's entirely likely Skynet knew it couldn't change that reality but was attempting to create a parallel universe where it could win.

>>66856261
Thinking about it, one question nobody's ever brought up is 'did Skynet know its existence depended on the T800 being sent back to 1984'?

If so, you could argue Terminator 1 was it securing its own existence and Terminator 2 was the serious assassination attempt.

>Skynet sents first terminator
>Resistance sees the date and time it was sent and send Kyle Reese a month early so he can prepare for his arrival.
>Terminator arrives Kyle blows it up.
>The end

>>66846597
follow the story you pleb

In genisys Skynet has discovered how to time travel whilst John Conner is banging down the door, in the time they discover this they send ONE terminator back because a few moments later John Conner and Beihn's character storm the compound and send Beihn back. there could have been an unlimited amount of robots sent back, but you're an absolute flaming fucking faggot and cannot see beihn arrive back literally right after the terminator. This is established in the get go from T1 and is literally displayed onscreen on genisys. Yes they send back more terminators in T2 etc because the first T arm was left behind and Skynet was reborn and rediscovered time travel in T2.