Oh but there is an Arnold. Under the real-world considerations of box office receipts, what the producers allowed was continuity of A-list star power to override continuity of hero/villain character assignment. They broke a writer's pillar of world-building in science fiction. You don't see the Borg from Star Trek switching sides from one season to the next.
That in movie 2 the Terminator who traveled back in time was just another T800 that had been programmed differently was their "out". Accept it, suspend disbelief, and enjoy the show. Yet from the perspective of a fiction writer they committed a violation of good storytelling.
If the "out" were applied consistently there would have been no liquid silver metal dude. Just a bunch of T800s fighting it out.
Oh but there is an Arnold. Under the real-world considerations of box office receipts, what the producers allowed was continuity of A-list star power to override continuity of hero/villain character assignment. They broke a writer's pillar of world-building in science fiction. You don't see the Borg from Star Trek switching sides from one season to the next.
That in movie 2 the Terminator who traveled back in time was just another T800 that had been programmed differently was their "out". Accept it, suspend disbelief, and enjoy the show. Yet from the perspective of a fiction writer they committed a violation of good storytelling.
If the "out" were applied consistently there would have been no liquid silver metal dude. Just a bunch of T800s fighting it out.