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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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.
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The problem with that scenario is that the humans would be hopelessly outclassed with no chance at all. Flesh and blood humans with hand-held weapons against mechanical masters and technological weapons of mass destruction would be wiped out like a 1000 Zulus charging a British fort with one Maxim gun.
The idea of humans in rags breaking out of a prison camp and turning the tide of war would be like exhausted Jewish prisoners breaking out of Austwitz and defeating Nazi Germany all by themselves.
The humans need some technology and some way to hide from a mechanical threat that has no qualms about conducting nuclear or chemical warfare. They need the sub and fighter craft and some other ways of surviving beyond hiding in caves and shooting at armored robots with M4 carbines.
You can say what you will about the classic movie tropes of human creativity and passion and spirit, etc. but they would be wiped out in any realistic future war with Skynet if they really started out with nothing.