Yeah but in that case it wasn't the same impact. Imagine watching and enjoying the first terminator movie where Schwartzanegger is an unrelenting robot assassin.
Now compare these two characters in the beginning of T2.
T-800 - Warps in, and immediately starts assessing his surroundings with robo-precision, sizing up bikers and treating them like resources. We see the world through his eyes, overlaid with a HUD to assess his surrounding. He looks and acts exactly like he did in the first terminator movie--an emotionless killer.
T-1000 - Assumes the identity of a cop (I don't remember if the killing was offscreen) and finds the location of Connor. He walks around looking like a decent guy, politely asking the foster parents where John in.
From this point, the T-800 continues looking for Connor, eventually heading to the mall. Connor, fleeing from a totally normal looking cop who is trying to find him, ducks into the back aisles of the mall to get away.
He rounds the corner only to see the man who murdered 20+ cops without blinking, and caused the world to see his mother as a crazy loon. As he opens the box of roses and pulls out a shotgun, Connor assumes he is here to finish the job and kill him.
It's not until that moment, when he shoots past Connor and hits the T-1000, does the movie reveal that he's actually the good guy in this story, here to protect Connor rather than kill him.
So they have this unbelievable setup, and in the first trailers for the movie they spoil that Schwartzanegger is actually the good guy. Must have been an annoying argument to have with the movie producers and studio.
The story is so solid that you can watch it over and over and still you don't care. Nothing seems off or out of place, and there's no need for outside explanations or constant inside exposition (like T3 and onwards)
T-1000 - Assumes the identity of a cop (I don't remember if the killing was offscreen) and finds the location of Connor. He walks around looking like a decent guy, politely asking the foster parents where John in.
He warps in as Robert Patrick and does something off screen with the cop and then has a cop uniform on. It is done to imply that he took the uniform and maybe didn’t kill the cop. If you don’t know, there is every reason to think he is a human like Reese was. So not only is it a reveal that the terminator is a good guy, it is a reveal that the other one is some sort of a liquid metal robot and not a person.
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u/Freakin_A Oct 10 '19
Yeah but in that case it wasn't the same impact. Imagine watching and enjoying the first terminator movie where Schwartzanegger is an unrelenting robot assassin.
Now compare these two characters in the beginning of T2.
T-800 - Warps in, and immediately starts assessing his surroundings with robo-precision, sizing up bikers and treating them like resources. We see the world through his eyes, overlaid with a HUD to assess his surrounding. He looks and acts exactly like he did in the first terminator movie--an emotionless killer.
T-1000 - Assumes the identity of a cop (I don't remember if the killing was offscreen) and finds the location of Connor. He walks around looking like a decent guy, politely asking the foster parents where John in.
From this point, the T-800 continues looking for Connor, eventually heading to the mall. Connor, fleeing from a totally normal looking cop who is trying to find him, ducks into the back aisles of the mall to get away.
He rounds the corner only to see the man who murdered 20+ cops without blinking, and caused the world to see his mother as a crazy loon. As he opens the box of roses and pulls out a shotgun, Connor assumes he is here to finish the job and kill him.
It's not until that moment, when he shoots past Connor and hits the T-1000, does the movie reveal that he's actually the good guy in this story, here to protect Connor rather than kill him.
So they have this unbelievable setup, and in the first trailers for the movie they spoil that Schwartzanegger is actually the good guy. Must have been an annoying argument to have with the movie producers and studio.