I re-watched Terminator tonight. As you may recall, the whole Terminator series fucks with my head and I don't like it. But tonight I noticed a major flaw with T2 and T3, which thus makes it fuck with my head some more.
In T1, Kyle tells Dr. Silverman that it wouldn't help the machines to kill John Connor at the point when he went back in time because the human resistance had smashed something causing the humans to win. He then says that that's when they found the "time displacement" machine and the Terminator had already gone through. He also says that the time displacement machine was destroyed after he went through. I'll come back to the "what if it wasn't, he has no proof of that" angle later.
So then at that time, the human resistance didn't have their own Terminator 101 (the one that is sent back in T2) because, to me, that would be a better choice to send back as a protector (hard to kill). But also at that time, the machines must not have had the T1000 or the TX because those are much better killing machines and would have been better choices to send for the first film. So then, how did the machines send back more advanced machines after the time machine was destroyed? Or, going back to the "the time machine wasn't destroyed for some reason" angle, then how could more advanced Terminators been built if the humans had defeated the machines?
Interestingly, the DVD featured some deleted scenes which contributed to the plot. One whole scene they cut out was Sarah calling her mom and telling her mom to hide in the cabin (referred to later by the Terminator as the mom on the phone with Sarah) and then looking through the phone book. Sarah tears out the page that contains the address for Cyberdine, the company responsible for it all. She then convinces Kyle that they should try to destroy the company. In the audio commentary, James Cameron says it ended up being a good thing that they cut that since that was the "nucleus" for the second movie. Anyway, some more deleted stuff was a guy who worked at the factory where the Terminator was destroyed picking up the CPU and handing it to another guy and telling him to get it to analysis or whatever the next day but they hide the chip from the police who told them not to touch anything. Outside, we see Sarah loaded into a ambulance and then the camera pans up to the name of the factory?Cyberdine Systems. Just another case of the Terminator series demonstrating how knowledge of the future causes the events in the present making that future.
I really ought to stop over analyzing things.