19.6.09

hey Batman, how did you do that?


Okay, this has been bugging me for weeks. And I know, geeks who point out techological plot holes are in danger of inching away from the "cool" side of Mom's basement, but.

So in Terminator: Salvation, John Connor uses his radio jammer device to corrupt the minds of the motorcycle terminators, and as a byproduct of this, steals one to ride to Skynet.com Stadium. Now, these "mototerminators" are basically killer robots with two wheels. They're not motorbikes, in the pre-apocolyptic sense, because they're not designed for say another robot much less a human to ride them. It's not like Skynet built supercharged Segways and a bunch of killer GOB lookalikes to hunt down humanity. (Which actually may have been more effective, because hey, pretty scary image, right?)

So the question is, if it's just a robot with two wheels that is not designed to actually be ridden much less controlled by some outside driver robot, much less a human... then John Connor, how did you ride that robot? How did you change gears, how did you throttle and brake? The world needs to know!

PS: spoilers above. But who cares, 'cause y'all have already seen this movie anyway.

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