FAQ For New Fans #35: "Terminator Doesn't Know About Tears??"

 
My websites were always targeted primarily for the hardcore fans who almost know it all. The purpose of my sites was too shine light on some very obscure interviews and facts that aren't accessible in well known books or extras that are still available for purchase. However, times change, and new generations and fans come along - and I realized that a lot of my audience consist of fans who aren't diehards who know every book and interview by memory for decades (like all the fans at the Terminator Files Forum years ago), or just never went outside the films. So this is part of a different type of FAQ section, for those less initiated in Cameronverse. 

Let's continue with "Terminator Doesn't Know About Tears?"

So The Terminator tells Sarah that he has detailed files on human anatomy. Of course, it is obvious throughout both movies. But if he has detailed files on human anatomy, how come he didn't know what tears are?

Even if he didn't know, it would fall into physiology category, not anatomy. But we're dealing here with both Mandela effect and a simple case of not understanding something by some. Terminator never once in the movie claims not to know what tears are or what crying is. He is asking WHY people cry - cry as in despair as there's no answer for it in anatomy, it's psychology (and one can also say physiology not anatomy). 

The first time he mentions anything related to tears/crying is in the car while escaping from Pescadero. He asks John what is WRONG with his eyes as he sees him teary eyed. Official description of tears is as follows

So naturally, Terminator assumes something is wrong with John's eyes, be it a shrapnel or other injury, hence asking what is wrong with his eyes. he never asks "What is HAPPENING with your eyes". 

The very next day he is asking John why people CRY. He doesn't get the crying part, not what tears are or what they're for, but the act of crying. 

Once John denies the pain being behind it, he is completely baffled because he doesn't get the idea of emotional pain, which he finally understands at the end of the film by putting it into context.

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