It has some realllly big logic inconsistencies (pretty much none of the Resistance military equipment would be operating at this point in time without the massive logistical backbone that keeps the US military running) but I tend to think logic problems in movies and acknowledging them leads to lifeless bullshit like Disney live action remakes, so I don't hold that against them. He's practically the most advanced Terminator model in existence, yet was invented before the standard T800 even came into active service! How did they do that?!?! According to the premise of the franchise not even Skynet is a true AI capable of independent thought! Skynet does what it does because it has misinterpreted its own programming. But even though Arnold's T-800 standard model isn't in service yet it seems somehow Skynet had managed to create a super cyborg infiltration model capable of completely independent thought?. They're still in a prototype phase, so we're being dropped into the war against the machines rather early. According to the film's own story the standard Terminator models we're familiar with aren't in service yet. They focus way too much on the guy who doesn't realize he's a terminator, which kind of contradicts the whole setting. The few scenes that do take place in an urban environment aren't bad, they're just not focused on the war between humans and machines. In the end we get Christian Bale doing his Batman voice because he was trendy at the time so the studio wasted too much money on signing him to the production when a different actor would have likely been just as good.Īnd we get most of the scenes taking place in the middle of the desert instead of the bombed out cities we expected simply because it's easier to do the CGI and action in the desert environment.
All they had to do was match the imagery they already provided in the past. So they can't claim we had our own totally independent expectations that they couldn't meet, because they gave us the inspiration to work with. If you want to know what horrible would be then check out T3 or Terminator Genisys and the absolutely abysmal Terminator Dark Fate to see just how low the franchise can go when it's just trying to make a buck.įor decades we all had this idea in our heads about what life after Judgement Day would be like, and it's because of the imagery the first two films gave us. I think this film doesn't get enough credit. To the real military leaders he's just a civilian, it's not until he proves himself in destroying the base and freeing the prisoners does everyone else take notice of him. No one is gonna believe him when he tells them he's the destined leader of the Resistance, they're gonna laugh at him. For all we know he was always a grunt until the main leadership got wiped out and then he stepped up.
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Plus we have no idea how or when he originally became the leader. He spurs them into following his lead and attacking the facility after he deactivates the defenses. The final radio call he makes tells them if they follow command, they're dead.
Before he blow up that facility, most of the Resistance were military remnants, everyone else were just trying to hide. That one act is what convinced them they need to follow him. Connor teaching them to storm the fences and fight back. It basically showed us what Kyle Reese described.
He is the one who taught humanity to fight back in Salvation.