(Setting flair as Spoilers out of abundance of caution, but I feel like it’s been enough time to catch up? Should it be changed to Discussion?)In the middle of Terminator 2 there is a scene that was shown in some countries, but not others. I only watched the movie with it as a kid, and recently watched the movie on Netflix, and the scene was cut, and the movie made no sense to me.In the scene, John asks Terminator about his ability to learn (“so you can be more human and not such a dork all the time”), to which Terminator replies that they are shipped with his CPU set to “read-only” by default, i.e. the machines can’t learn.Later that night, they open up Terminator’s “skull” to flip the switch. Sarah tries to destroy the CPU, and John takes control and says something like “if you say I’m supposed to be such a great leader, maybe you should start listen to my leadership ideas once in a while”.This scene is so important for the development of the main characters (John growing into a leader, Sarah starting to trust the machine), it’s insane they cut it because “the movie was too long already”.Additionally, if you see the franchise through the lens of this scene existing, then the Dark Fate is a bit problematic, since the only Terminator that had his CPU switch flipped was the one that melted in Terminator 2. The rest of the machines exist in the default “read-only” mode, and you need to explain explicitly if they have been re-configured.Here’s the scene: https://youtu.be/wrDo7wVXrBQEDIT: phrased one sentence poorly: the deleted scene is important for the characters of John and Sarah in the movie. It has no implication on the character of that particular Terminator unit in that movie, but has broader implications for all other Terminators in all other movies (all Terminators learning or all Terminators being read-only) via /r/movies https://ift.tt/308PXSh
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