[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

Light SPOILERS:

In the movie, that particular T-800 is sent back to when Sarah was a child. She grew up with that Terminator as her father figure. The organic overlay of the T-800 model behaves like any organic material and ages, even though the underlying structure is the same. Kind of the downfall of having a natural organic exterior is that it degenerates like any skin and muscle would. AKA: That's their excuse to have Ahnuld back.

Okay, for the sake of the movie and what not, I buy that. I guess it is still weird then that whoever designed the terminator would be all "hey, let's give it skin that ages." Certainly then the other creator would say "why would we want a robot that looks like it ages? I see very little applicable need or reason for that." To which the other person replies "I have two reasons for this decision: plot and convenience."