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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
While I didn't think Salvation was as bad as some. I thought that they really missed the future war concept.
When the resistance has nuclear subs. A-10 warthogs helicopers and all that I cringed. I know they wanted the cool hardware factor.
But I remember the first terminator movie and even the second one and even the third one had Skynet basically crushing the worlds military in one strike. In some of the books there was just nothing left. Mankind was hiding in the ruined cities like rats, except for the ones in the liquidation camps. The resistance wasn't even founded until Conner broke out of one of the camps.
When I watched Salvation, with the sun showing during the day and a coordinated military I was a bit disappointing.
If I was going to reboot, I would start it in a skynet prison camp, with rag clothed humans just waiting to die as collaborated loaded the bodies into the furnaces until John Conner rises up and does a great escape type of breakout. He can spend the movie desparately trying to evade hunter killers and the older style terminator exoskeltons, and slowly forming the resistance.
The ending of the movie could be him returning to the prison camp to liberate the prisoners.
You could do a whole three part trilogy of the future war leading to John Conner and the resistance smashing the power grid and supposedly winning the war until they stumble onto the time displacement device. and then the trilogy could end with him sending his father back through time to save his mother.
You could throw in Kate Brewster since she's pretty much canon now.
But you could have humans in shattered cities making hand crafted weapons or stealing them from terminators. You would never see the sun because of the nuclear winter.
I don't know if I would want to see the rubber skinned infiltrators yet.
I know it would totally kill off Salvation, but because this movie is about time lines this could just be another time line. Hell you could rename John Conner as Joan Conner and have her played by someone hot with big cannons.
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To nerd it up for a while....
T3 changed the timeline. Arnie gets sent back in time and hides Connor in a bunker. He uses that bunker to coordinate the resistance.
You're main point stands though, it could have been a lot darker and cooler.