The problem with continuing the Terminator series is that it's based around a time travel plot. There is no way to prevent judgement day, as has already been established. If you did, you'd create a temporal paradox: If skynet doesn't come to be, the Terminator doesn't exist; but he does so skynet must exist, but it doesn't....
The only place this new movie can go is having a story set in the future where they battle Skynet and maybe overcome it. At which point it just becomes Reign of Fire but with robots and lasers instead of dragons and battle-axes. Christian Bale may be the bomb, but not even he could ressurect that tired plot.
And there is no way they could ever duplicate Matthew McConnaghy leaping through the air with a battle axe only to be eaten by a big ass dragon. That scene made me cheer almost as much as the time Steven Seagal was killed off 10 minutes into Exective Decision.
Perhaps I'm being a crusty curmudgeon, but just don't have any hope for these big series where they basically retread tired story lines in pursuit of more money while completly ruining the original material. Terminator will always be a 2 movie franchise; Indy will be a trillogy ending with him riding off into the sunset (and no La'Beef); Star Wars begins on Tatooine and ends at Endor.... etc.
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