Showing posts with label terminator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terminator. Show all posts

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.