Now that would be scary. But how do you keep the flayed flesh fresh and undamaged? And how do you ensure that it would fit the endoskeleton perfectly 1:1. This kind of process, while an awesomely horrific idea, would probably damage the donor skin enough that the resulting product just wouldn't come out right. Remember, the Terminators are supposed to be infiltrators. They have to pass for humans. Same as the rubber 600-series, if they don't look right, they can't complete their missions, because they'd get spotted all the time. Skynet probably decided that by manufacturing everything by itself from the ground up, by letting the synthetic flesh naturally grow onto the endoskeleton as opposed to using ill-fitting donor parts, it's able to create more convincing looking infiltrators. Seems to be working.
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Heisenberg (6730)
3 years ago
I agree.
That is why I would place my idea between the t600 and the t800.
What is a t700 like?
But it just seems logical that, with so much human parts available and the goal to pass a terminator as a real person, fitting a skin on a skeleton is a wrthy try.
Maybe this model had a layer of biocompatible matrix, to sustain the skin alive, but it would not last long enough (like a week or so) to be "profitable",so it was replaced with the t800s.
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cyguration (3951)
3 years ago
Maybe that's what they were capturing some of the humans for in Terminator Salvation?
(or at least, one would think that would be what the writer's intent was)... that the next standard models would use living human tissue stitched together over a T-700 model.
The possibilities of a body-horror sci-fi franchise are near limitless. Could you imagine if Terminator 3 was directed by David Cronenberg in the 1990s instead of his film Crash? (or maybe if he took a crack at Terminator 2 after Terminator 1; and Terminator 3 would have been James Cameron's Terminator 2 instead?) That would have been insane!
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Heisenberg (6730)
3 years ago
Cronenberg is insane, we all agree here.
But a more introspective terminator may be the wrong direction.
Does the skin enjoy its new form? Or does the terminator feel more human?
Certainly it would make a hell of an interesting flick, if it meets the friend and relatives of the skin and blasts them.
Or if they welcome it and lead it inside the human base...lots of suspance!
Just thought, the sort of strange ability of the t800 to imitate any voice, could be just inherited from this skinned previous model, which needed it to impersonate the skin it used (once captured, these soon-to-be-skinned humans were interrogated to get their personal info and...personal voice!).
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