The Connor’s would have been absolutely fucking annihilated if the T-800 hadn’t been there in T2. It would’ve been a real short film.
• T-1000 finds John at the galleria
• Shoots him full of holes
• Goes into standby in some cellar until the machines rise
• No John Connor to lead the Resistance
• The machines win and eventually erase humanity or leave it to living underground in it’s own filth, scavenging like NYC sewer rats.
What we’re disagreeing about here, and it’s my fault, is the little bits of story that are there so that the film is actually interesting and lasts more than two minutes. So, the T-800 is gonna face conflict and not beat the ever-loving-shit out of anything and anyone in it’s way and win every time because there’s no movie in that (for most people… maybe). They have to throw in a conflict, a possibility of the protector losing or the attacker having some sort of weakness despite the protagonists doing absolutely everything in attempt of stopping it. There’s few movies that could succeed in being watchable with an completely indestructible hero or villain.
But judging from what the T-800 has been shown to be capable of and what Robocop (who is no slouch either) has been shown to be capable of, the Terminator wins - hands down. The T-1000 would be a no contest winner but not as fun as watching two tanks like the T-800 and Robocop beat the shit out of each other and destroying the interior/walls of random buildings in the process.
Remember in T2 when the T-800 jumps off of that shitty little pickup truck and onto the mack truck the t-1000 is chasing them in, like it’s no big deal, and just starts pumping rounds into the T-1000’s face while kneeling in front of the drivers window as the truck is going balls out on the highway, straight into a steel mill? So bad ass.
Damn, now I wanna go watch the T1 and T2 for the millionth times.
The T-1000 was a prototype, It also had full autonomy unlike the T-800 who had to have programming in order to follow orders so Skynet knew there was a chance the T-1000 could disobey orders but Skynet had already lost the war, so the T-1000 was kind of a last hoorah, last hope type of thing. The scene where the T-1000 gets frozen in liquid nitrogen and then defrosts, he glitches afterwards and Conner then sees and knows its the terminator, shows the unfinished development the T-1000 was in, really no surprise the T-800 was victorious. Also throughout the film, you gotta figure the T-1000 should easily recover from bullet wounds, he’s liquid metal! But no, he seems to take minutes to regenerate from simple pistol shots that should heal instantly really. LOL
Also if you havent checked out this site already, I recommend it for you terminerds out there. Really goes in too great detail about the resistance and skynets hardware/software, all that shit. Good stuff.
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/
