Picking Nits
Sarah’s age and independence, the living-tissue rule, Reese traveling alone and asking too few questions, missing identity intelligence, and later Terminators abandoning disguise generate the nits.
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- Sarah is only 18 despite living independently, working, and carrying responsibilities that read as mid-twenties adulthood.
- The writers admit the living-tissue time-travel rule lacks scientific basis, and it fails to explain why the resistance sends only Reese instead of a larger team.
- Sarah scarcely interrogates her visitor from decades ahead, while Reese’s lack of technical knowledge makes him an odd sole envoy.
- The machines can invent time travel but lack Sarah’s image, and Reese somehow does not recognize the mass-produced Terminator model.
- This machine repeatedly conceals exposed machinery, a stealth behavior later sequels largely abandon.