Re: Hot Toys - DX10 - Terminator 2 - T-800 Cyberdyne - Official Specs & Pics
Presumably the 800 series are built like body builders due to the size of the endo skeleton, otherwise a more inconspicuous human body type would be used.
i always read it like this:
1) visual part.
T-800 is a human-size hunter-killer but it is still a hunter-killer.
movements of its head, arms with weapons and eyes resemble of movements of hunter-killer's cannons, tower, cameras. so the size resemblance adds to the mood. (to the mood of people who watch the movie, not people who live in skynet's 2029)
2) technical part.
T-800 should not weight a ton or even half a ton (no matter what T3 shows): when it sits on a bike, its ressors don't act any different from the actual Schwarzenegger weight (obviously
). at the same time his mechanics cannot be compact and covered with big metal plates like Robocop => he has to have bigger and thicker mechanics without plating - overall size grows. if it had a size of Lance Henriksen (as it was meant in the beginning), its opened mechanics would have to be to thin and small => fragile.
remember that he mainly suffered from the thinnest parts damages:
- arm damage (in the script he had to unassemble it, fix and assemble back, like in Sarah Connor Chronicles, not just cut and move fingers)
- leg damage (after a bike crash)
- waist break (his spine was not solid metal, it was thin plates over lots of wires, remember the crawling part).
He picks up an X-acto knife and cuts deeply into the skin
of his forearm with an expression of mild concentration.
He pulls back a flap of skin to reveal a complex trunk of
hydraulics and sheathed cables, glistening with blood.
He wipes away the blood and, with small screwdrivers,
begins to disassemble the jammed mechanism around the 12
gauge hit.
When repairs are complete he sutures the skin crudely back
in place with a needle and thread.
3) skynet psychology version.
skynet in T1 seems to have a very poor understanding of humans. it doesn't try to cheat them into surrender or poison them with gases, it just makes hunter-killers who crash everything around. it has no knowledge of how people live and what they think.
my guess is that when it came to designing a human, it made a "perfect" human based on medical science. no attempt to study actual small starving humans.
face structure confirms that. skynet had to cover a thick skull (that has really no damage from everything T-800s are hit with), it had to make big face => big body followed.
seeing the U-turn in T-1000 slim design you'd say that it either understood its mistake or found a way to smallen the metal part and not make it fragile. or both.
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i got so tired of writing that crap with a serious face )))
willow terminator
