From a hypothetical perspective of someone who has seen only the first movie, one could have assumed that Robert Patrick's character was another resistance member sent to protect John Connor, with Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role of another terminator.
At the time this was a significant plot twist. It was intentional that you think the T800 is still the bad guy and the T1000 is the soldier coming back to save John. It was playing on expectations (because, even then, people often expected the same things from their sequels). But the whole time something is a little off- until the reveal. It's now a classic moment and a great scene in the movie. There may be a trailer that spoils it (because PR and marketing always sucks at not spoiling movies), but if you were someone like me who barely (if ever) watches trailers because you know better then it doesn't matter.
That's really weird. I had never considered the concept that anyone would even not know that this was how the film was intended to be perceived. huh, interesting
I remember the first theatrical trailer explicitly said how this time there are two terminators and one is sent to help. But I think it always showed Robert Patrick in the cop uniform and then shows Arnold minigunning the cops so it's intentionally going for the swerve even if it's not really subtle about it.
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