Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtp47.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!throopw
From: throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator Question
Message-ID: <92@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 17:23:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: rtp47.92
Posted: Fri Jul 19 17:23:59 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 21:35:52 EDT
References: <63@uw-june> <736@asgb.UUCP>
Organization: Data General, RTP, NC
Lines: 30

(refering to the time-travel restrictions in "The Terminator")
> Ah, but then why couldn't the human carry anything with him?  He could have
> just packed anything he wanted in a container made of similar organic
> tissue (an alligator bag? :-) )...
>        Jamie Green       {ihnp4,decvax}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon

An aligator bag is not living tissue, and *living* tissue is
specifically called for.  They didn't have time to (for example)
surgically implant weapons in the human time-traveler, since they had
to dump him into the past quickly (for some glossed over reason that was
mentioned in the police interview).  The logical thing to do would be
for him to swallow a weapon, and regurgitate it upon arrival.  Either
the rebels (or the writers) forgot that possibility, or it wouldn't work
for some "technical" reason, such as the fact that things in the
digestive tract are topologically outside the body, or maybe weapons
capable of taking out a Terminator are too big to swallow.

(refering to a possible time loop)
> I have another question about this film.  Does anybody else beleive that
> the "human who came thru the future" (I forget his name too) was actually
> Sarah's son?
>         Mark Hamilton  ihnp4!sdcsvax!bmcg!asgb!mah

It was specifically stated that he was *not* Sarah's son, but that
Sarah's son selected him for the assignment (and was the leader of the
rebel forces).

You folks *saw* this movie didn't you?   :-)
-- 
Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
<the-known-world>!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!throopw