A lot of the jokes making T-800 talk like a 90s skater punk are pretty cringey t...

everdrive · on Jan 9, 2023

Just wait til they’re 30-40, and they hear how kids are talking. Guaranteed it will sound just as dumb. :)

I think it was always supposed to sound a little dumb. The T-800 is acting as a father figure, and bridging the cultural gap with his surrogate ‘son.’

blincoln · on Jan 9, 2023

I agree. Now that I'm older, I've seen kids 30 years younger than me try to get their parents to use modern popular slang, and it feels super cringey.

James Cameron would have been 36 when he was making Terminator 2, and he's a polymath with an eye for detail, so I'm sure he deliberately went for that layered meaning.