And The New T-800 TERMINATOR Is...?

Maniacs: In the second terminator Arnold says to John that he is a cyberdyne system model 101; however he is a T-800. Now we have Roland and he is also a T-800 but from 20 years earlier. So what we have is T-800's and each individual have it's serial number i.e. Arnold is the T-800 number 101 and before Arnold there are 100 different terminators? (I'm not trying to be wise or funny, I'm really asking you guys).

Its possible they could be system model 101, 102 ect. I think most people forget about the system model number om terminators and only remember the series number.This whole T-800 from 20 years earlier doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is Kyle Reese like 5 years old in this? in the first film he was talking about the 600 series and how the 8oos were new. A lot of the information in the article could be wrong or not presented correctly as it looks like its from a local news paper. Could be total misinformation from the producers.

He looks like the perfect Arnold replacement. I know he's technically not his replacement. I thought he was pretty funny in Son of the Beach and even back then I thought he had a resemblance to Arnie. Who knows maybe this'll get his career on the fast track.

Roads, I THINK that's the case.

In Terminator Reese explains to Sarah that in earlier models the skin looked like rubber. That might explain the reason for different model numbers.

Don't forget that in the flashback sequence from Terminator, the Terminator that burst into the hideout of the humans did not look like Arnold (different actor) therefore it is reasonable that all Terminator models (even the same model #) do not look a like

Don't forget that in the flashback sequence from Terminator, the Terminator that burst into the hideout of the humans did not look like Arnold (different actor) therefore it is reasonable that all Terminator models (even the same model #) do not look a like

As to the series number, the TV show (and how cannonical that is is debatable) and T3 (which shouldn't be cannon AT ALL in my opinion! lol) they've pretty much established that there ARE deferent models within a series, but unless I'm mistaken, it was different model numbers like T-888, and so forth. Concerning the 'new' terminator, maybe I'm reading it wrong, but is it possible that he's a human that Skynet uses as a basic template for the Terminator flesh-suits? That could account for the 20 year discrepancy. I mean how old was Arnold in the first movie? Mid to late 30's, I think.

I think that they are going to have a lot of changes that they can blame on the timeline changes from all three of the first movies.

Before the first movie Sarah probably met a nice man. He wasn’t from the future, but they had a kid and he became the leader of the resistance. skynet developed a time travel device and sent back a terminator to get rid of the kid. The resistance was a little too late to stop the terminator being sent back.

At the end of the first movie there was a wreckage of the first t-800 that had come back. That changed how and when skynet was made.

in T2 instead of being a total fluke of hardware and software, skynet became its own child, and if it hadn’t caused more changes in the timeline by sending back another more advanced terminator and prompting Sarah to destroy skynet before it was "born", things might have turned out the same as the second time through after the first movie. So things changed again.

Even though I think the third movie was crap, I think it had a really good explanation of what was going on. Each intervention in the time line creates a new timeline and future history. Before the third intervention, in the third movie, I think that skynet was created differently again, and that the only evidence of the other timelines were the interventions that the previous "skynets" had made. This prompted the third skynet to cause changes that would ensure skynet would be "born".

To do so it sent the TX to infect and propagate a new version of skynet over the internet and world wide networks. The thing is this caused yet another timeline.

I am hoping after what I saw in the teaser trailer yesterday that the next 3 movies are going to be excellent movies. They got Christian Bale, check one for good choices. They have made what I think is an excellent teaser trailer, check one for awesome creativity.

After T3 I was wishing that they hadn’t bothered, but that teaser looks really cool.

I think it is a T-800 serial 101 just like the first poster suggested. I have got my hopes up for this movie.

So it's supposed to be the same model? Must be important for the story, since they had more than one appearance for the same robot.

I always figured an alternate version of the future from T-3 would revolve around the arm the second T-800 left behind. I think its safe to say the sytem model # is the look of the human casing over the endo-skeleton. I never assumed all terminators looked the same as Arnold would kind of defeat their purpose.