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I was a wee child when Terminator 2 came out. I caught some of it on TV recently and it left me wondering if John Connor would have been “cool” to the audience of that era. He’s got that late 80s to early 90s Guns N’ Roses to grunge look going. He says “cool” things and teaches T100 his new catchphrase. He’s a rebel. He has weird hair.  Clearly he was supposed to be cool, but was he actually? Or was he what James Cameron thought teens with find cool and ended up a caricature of actual coolness?
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Mar 21, 2023 04:03
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he was tolerable at best, as all little kids in movies are. i don't remember child john connor being in any video games or comic books but i don't remember anakin skywalker levels of hatred for him either
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Mar 21, 2023 04:05
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Domestic Violence is never cool https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/california-furlong-arrested/index.html
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Mar 21, 2023 04:06
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I don’t think he was supposed to be cool or a rebel. More of a victim of abuse at the hands of his mother and various other adults.
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Mar 21, 2023 04:12
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I was the guy who jumped out of the helicopter when the t1000 got in and said "get out" and I don't think he was meant to be cool. He was a kid with a hosed up life who had the burden of being humanity's savior on his shoulders. Just my opinion as someone who was there.
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Mar 21, 2023 04:14
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he hacked an ATM OP he was cool as gently caress
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Mar 21, 2023 04:16
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:he hacked an ATM OP he was cool as gently caress "PISS CAKE!"
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Mar 21, 2023 04:31
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:he hacked an ATM OP he was cool as gently caress yah with the kid from Salute Your Shorts his hacking rig was cool af too
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Mar 21, 2023 04:56
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he was cool but sarah connor was way cooler and it's pretty grim when a kid is less cool than their parent
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Mar 21, 2023 06:03
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Bad Purchase posted:he was cool but sarah connor was way cooler and it's pretty grim when a kid is less cool than their parent She’s a complete psycho. That's why she was up at Pescadero. It's a mental institute, OK? She tried to blow up a computer factory, but she got shot and arrested…she’s a total loser.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:07
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I like it when he hosed up robot frieza and robot friezas dad
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Mar 21, 2023 06:12
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Who was cool was Reese Smokin
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Mar 21, 2023 06:22
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His friend Budnick was in the movie. Budnick was cool.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:42
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Bif beat him up in high school
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Mar 21, 2023 06:44
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I saw Terminator 2 when I was 6 and I thought John Connor was cool
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Mar 21, 2023 06:44
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Bart Simpson was considered cool then so the bar was kinda low. He was way cooler than this kid at least: 
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Mar 21, 2023 07:02
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He straight up told Todd to eat grass. Total hottie.
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Mar 21, 2023 07:11
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Schweinhund posted:Bart Simpson was considered cool then so the bar was kinda low. still being grossed out by his scabby fingers as he shovels popcorn into his mouth 
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Mar 21, 2023 07:45
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yeah arnie's character was a T-800 though so I have to vote 1 on your thread. sorry
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Mar 21, 2023 08:03
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Bif beat him up in high school No loving way. John Connor was 100% one of those kids who wasn't popular but came off as just a bit too genuinely messed up for the bullies to mess with. The sort of kid who might have a knife, or a gun, or would just bite you or something. After everything his mom taught him, he probably would, too. That's why Biff just messed with Marty, who was a weenie no matter how much time travel he did.
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Mar 21, 2023 08:32
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he's not me so he can't be that cool
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Mar 21, 2023 08:33
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Sophy Wackles posted:I don’t think he was supposed to be cool or a rebel. More of a victim of abuse at the hands of his mother and various other adults.
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Mar 21, 2023 08:59
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Cubone posted:man last time I watched T2 a minor scene stuck out to me where Sarah was having some kind of episode and John immediately went into parenting mode and started like coaching her through it. it was hosed up in a really understated and real way. made me think of "Me & Wolfie, 1979", which is a reference that everybody is sure to understand good job Cubone Its was when she went to kill Dyson but couldn't do it because she's human and not a robot so she has a mental breakdown instead
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Mar 21, 2023 11:06
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Dragonstoned posted:Its was when she went to kill Dyson but couldn't do it because she's human and not a robot yeah it's the scene where she's gonna murder a dude in front of his wife and child and can't do it, then has a mental breakdown and then makes him go kill himself and his work instead
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Mar 21, 2023 11:14
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did the T-1000 kill wolfie?
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Mar 21, 2023 11:15
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:did the T-1000 kill wolfie? Yes
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Mar 21, 2023 11:20
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God I had such a huge crush on John Connor in T2 growing up lol, one of my first gay asf feelings.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:20
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that's not the dog's real name, you fell in my trap robot!
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Mar 21, 2023 11:23
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someone post the future scene in the playground with the insane 90s futurewear and the terrible makeup, i can't do it myself i cannot self-terminate
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Mar 21, 2023 11:27
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I just realized that he should be 8 years-old by the time of T2. He's pretty cool for an 8 year-old.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:35
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MrQwerty posted:yeah it's the scene where she's gonna murder a dude in front of his wife and child and can't do it, then has a mental breakdown and then makes him go kill himself and his work instead he only died because the cops showed up and immediately shot the only black guy in the room at least he got that one last trip to raging waters with is family before the end 
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Mar 21, 2023 11:37
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Bloopsy posted:She’s a complete psycho. That's why she was up at Pescadero. It's a mental institute, OK? She tried to blow up a computer factory, but she got shot and arrested…she’s a total loser. weird use of the words but and loser
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Mar 21, 2023 11:45
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https://i.imgur.com/z7Uuivu.mp4
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Mar 21, 2023 11:45
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*Me holding my hand out to while ur blackout drunk and can't find ur way to the bathroom in a New Jersey dive* "Come with me if u want to piss"
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Mar 21, 2023 11:49
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i was told i look like edward furlong once. that was pretty uncool.
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Mar 21, 2023 12:04
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I haven't seen all the terminators does he eventually beat skynet because if he doesn't I'd say no
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Mar 21, 2023 12:30
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I was the guy who jumped out of the helicopter when the t1000 got in and said "get out" and I don't think he was meant to be cool. He was a kid with a hosed up life who had the burden of being humanity's savior on his shoulders. Just my opinion as someone who was there. I remember when this movie was coming out and it was previewed in one of those Disney Reader's Digest magazines for kids (you know, the small ones with something like 50 pages). The still shot they used from the movie was this scene, with the T1000 still rising up in the chair, and the helicopter pilot's goofy look on his face shown in the reflection, which made it look like T1000 had some weird, goofy, stretched out face. As a kid, I didn't know anything about Terminator, so imagine my surprise when this movie, that I saw when I was 9, turned out to be Not loving Around At All. Edit: this shot, except it was cropped and printed out on recycled magazine paper in 1991, so it didn't look nearly as clear as this 4k shot. 
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Mar 21, 2023 12:33
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Lmao
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Mar 21, 2023 12:34
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Some Christians caught and reprogrammed the Terminator, now it will go door to door spreading the word of God until it wears out in 200 years. No one can stop it.
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the 2 stroke sounds for the XR always kills me
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