* When the T-1000 first arrives, he checks John's record via the computer in the police car. It lists his age as ten and his birth date as 2/28/1985, placing the movie's events after 2/28/1995. However, when the T-800 is asked by John who sent him, he replies: "You did, 35 years from now". As he is sent back from 2029 it would place the events in 1994. Later in the movie, when they are leaving the gas station, the Terminator tells Sarah Connor that in three years Cyberdyne becomes the largest supplier of military computer systems, and we learn that Skynet goes online on 8/4/1997, an information that confirms his earlier statement, but contradicts with the data shown on a Police computer.
* When John / Sarah remove T-800-101's CPU and have their discussion regarding destroying / re-inserting the chip approximately 1:50 elapses. The Terminator's internal chronometer however displays an inconsistency of only 1:26.
Continuity - Character Inconsistencies
* In the scene where the foster mother Janelle Voight asks her husband Todd for help in getting John to clean his room, Todd discards his cigarette into the ashtray in the room before going out to the garage to confront John. Immediately afterwards, Todd is outside as John takes off on the bike, Todd has a partially smoked cigarette in his hand, which he throws on the ground.
* In the mental institute the Terminator pushes a woman by her face, she slides towards the bars then stops by an opening on the right. When the T-1000 slowly walks up to these bars you can see the same opening on the right but the woman has gone, then when the T-1000 starts running and shooting the woman is there again. During the hallway shootout at Pescadero, Dr. Silberman is present as the T1000 gives chase. Silberman is visible in the background as the T1000 forces open the elevator doors, but when the T800 blasts open the T1000's head, we can see that Dr. Silberman has disappeared.
John Conner: After John and his friend steel money from the ATM, John says "come on" and runs off without taking the time to complete the transaction and retrieve the ATM (magnetic) card that's still in the machine. In the next shot, John and his friend are running together side by side with the computer neatly wrapped up in the cable with the card that he later uses again at the Cyberdyne building to get the vault key. At the ATM, John puts his backpack on his shoulders twice. While driving in the beat-up station wagon, when John is teaching the Terminator to be more casual in his speech (e.g. not saying "Affirmative"), John's right arm moves on and off his raised up knee between the point-of-view cuts.
Sarah Conner: When Sarah is doing pull ups on her upturned bed, her arms are covered in sweat, but when the nurses kick her to the ground, all of her skin is bone dry. After the T-1000 is blown off the back of the police car, Sarah Conner reaches back to hug John. The slash wound from earlier in the elevator has disappeared, leaving only trace blood on her shirt.
T-800: When the Terminator gets stabbed in the biker bar, at first it appears to be just above the nipple (and you also see the knife bend). In the close up shot the knife stabs him right on the nipple, then when he walks up to the biker he threw onto the cooker the stab wound is several inches below the nipple. When the Terminator's arm gets caught in the gears, he severs it below the elbow to escape and continue fighting the T-1000. Towards the end of the fight, when the Terminator is crawling towards the grenade launcher, the damage is well above the elbow. The T1000 smashes the head of the Terminator with the rolling girder clearly scraping the Terminator's flesh. There is no flesh or blood on the girder when he pulls it back.
T-1000: In the scene in the steel mill where the T-1000 stabs Sarah Connor in her right shoulder, then raises his right hand to form a metal point aimed between her eyes, there is a cut to a close-up of the T-1000, cocking his head to make a sinister face. His right arm, which should be raised up to make the metal point, is not raised at all. When it cuts back to another close-up of the T-1000, his right arm is raised to make the metal point.
Continuity - Vehicles
* When the Terminator first appears, there's a yellow sign on the truck behind him which disappears when the truck is "cut".
* The Harley motorcycle moves five feet backwards at the mental institution's parking lot, right after the T-1000 start chasing the Terminator, Sarah and John.
* In the tanker truck/pick-up truck chase, after the tanker rams the pick-up and destroys the wooden shelter in the bed, you can see the Terminator turn the steering wheel right but the truck turns left instead.
* Before Sarah and the T-1000 begin shooting at each other during the SWAT truck/police chopper chase, the two vehicles are seen near a car that loses control and crashes. Later in the chase (before they pass the tanker truck) the same car is seen again, losing control and crashing again.
The Semi (truck): In the canal chase scene, when the T1000 is driving the semi and jumps off the bridge, the windshield clearly falls out as it lands. The next shot shows the windshield intact with bullet holes. The axle breaks down completely when hitting the ground. In the next shot the truck is stable again. As the Terminator is shooting at T-1000 in the truck (from above), you can see that the exhaust stacks disappear before the trucks roof is taken off by the overpass.
After the T-1000's truck goes under the bridge, you can clearly see the glass falling off of onto the ground, but in the next shot, the T-1000 pops up and knocks the glass out of the underframe. When The Terminator on his bike squeezes past the truck, the truck's left headlight is missing, but in the next shot as The Terminator grabs John the headlight has reappeared. The trucks flat tire 're-inflates itself' as the truck blows up and before John and the T-800 ride off.
The SWAT Truck: When the SWAT van crashes through Cyberdyne's front doors into the lobby, it comes to rest with the rear doors closed. When Sarah and John Connor enter it, it's in a different position and the rear doors are fully open. The SWAT truck loses a wing mirror as it crashes into the lobby, but it reappears later. When the Terminator is shooting at the SWAT truck from the helicopter, the bullet holes on the back of the truck keep changing, both in position and quantity, throughout the sequence. SWAT back door handle disappears and reappears during the shooting scene between Sara and the T-1000 at the helicopter.
The Stolen Police Car: When John, Sarah and Terminator take the police car during the escape from the mental clinic, the number on the plate changes in the following shots from 999273 -> 999232 -> 999273 -> 999001 -> 999013 -> 999018. The siren light changed from all blue to orange and blue. The bullet hole Sarah puts in the windshield as she commandeers it, is gone after escaping the mental hospital.
The Helicopter: The hole that the T1000 head-butted in the helicopter windscreen disappears and reappears. The front of the helicopter is destroyed in the collision with the SWAT truck, and yet appears intact later.
The Police Motorbike: In the Cyberdyne building scene, the police motorbikes front fender is clearly on fire. Later scenes show the fender to be in pristine condition. The tires change to knobby trail tires. The T-1000 riding the police motorcycle crashes through the window, launching itself toward the helicopter. As it crashes through the window, the windshield of the bike comes off, seconds later it reappears on the bike when it falls to the ground.
The Getaway Cars: In the get away scene from the mental institution, the T1000 crawls up behind the car, and smashes his hand through the back window. The hole it makes is suddenly smaller again in the next clip, and then it appears smashed again afterwards. The getaway car stolen from the gas station is broken into by smashing the side window. Later the window is shown intact but wound down.
Continuity - Locations/Background
* The Terminator jumps his Harley off a ledge down into a ravine. In the first shot of the jump, the ledge he jumps from is pointed. In the next shot, it's flat. When the Terminator and John Connor are driving (via motorcycle) toward Pescadero to spring Sarah Connor, the same group of parked school buses is passed twice. During the chase, the bridge explodes, but in the next shot it seems to be intact, above the flames.
* (Extreme Edition only) When T-1000 visit the Dyson residence, he overhears on the police radio the dispatch ordering all available units to respond to the Cyberdyne Building and gives the address as "2144 Kramer St". In a later scene, as the police units are responding to the Cyberdyne Building, one of the officers asks the dispatch to repeat the address, she gives the address as "2111 Kramer St".
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