It's a good thing they didn't send one of the much, much scarier terminators which showed up in the most recent movie.

Like the gigantic 3 story shitwrecker mobile...

Or a bunch of those murder bikes. Or that flying thingy.

Considering you would've had to wrap it up in living tissue before sending it through... that would be pretty damn horrifying.

Why exactly did they have to wrap it in living tissue?

Couldn't they just send a gigantic murder machine through?

It's not like they gave a shit about time paradoxes.

Easiest way to kill someone in LA? Kill LA.

I thought that was their attempt to plug a giant plot hole with their time travel universe. The subject had to be surrounded in living tissue... that's why they couldn't bring bad ass weapons into the past.

Could be wrong?

sounds right

although it seems like they could just make a living nuke

some mumbo jumbo about bioeletric fields generated by living tissue needed to interact with the time machine.

By blowing up huge buildings in full sight of a platoon of police officers? Yeah, real low profile.

The biological thing makes some sense though, I guess.

But yeah, why not just stick a hydrogen bomb into a skin suit and send it back through time and into Sarah Connor's closet?

It would probably be blamed on terrorists or something. No one would expect it to be the work of gnarly killer robots from the future.