jobloffski
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To reiterate my favourite ideas for the next two films (ie mine )...
Skynet uses time-travel in the first instance, not as used in the first film, but as a purely logical war tactic. No need to hunt the rebels down, and no need for reconnaissance of any kind, if you can simply wait for them to mount an attack, let them complete it, then send back the required number of terminators to be ready to meet the particular assault team.
Start the film with an emphatically victorious assault on a skynet facility. Cut back to rebels on the way to the attack again. Before they arrive at the site, blue spheres appear, one a time, then two at a time, etc, until the rebeld arrive, to be totally outgunned, and clinically massacred. Perhaps cover the time jump by making the image de-resolve and become a translucent blue that fades to reveal the beginning of a repeat of the latter stage of the journey to the battlezone, the visual transition foreshadowing the arrival of the similarly coloured spheres.
This creates serious paranoia for the rebels. Whatever they do, whatever they plan, skynet are always ready. We know why, Once over coms he has heard reference to a blue sphere appearing from nowhere John Connor knows why. His wife knows why. But the already doubting Connor's leadership rebel forces cannot be simply told it's time travel because they would think Connor is insane.
Connor has to suffer the increasing burden of his role, allowing massacres to continue, doing his best to alter tactics and defend his right to lead the resistance from dissatisfied potental rivals, while trying to drop hints directly to Kyle Reese and through 'allowing him to overhear' conversations that lead him to the supposition that Skynet may be doing what it is, in fact doing. Being so young and all, he is naturally ridiculed for it, but eventually the evidence mounts up and becomes undeniable.
This makes Reese more of a hero, creates an increasing bond/friendship between Connor and Reese (thereby progressing the main story arc, especially if Connor also begins to tell Reece about Sarah) and makes the rebels change tactics, more small raids, not enough collateral damage to make Skynet bother to use the resources necessary to prevent the raids. The rebels chip away at skynet, and having no alternative, Skynet has to change it's tactics too, developing infiltration unit Terminators to essentially 'roam the plains' and find the hidey holes the rebels use to mount their raids/their main bases, John Connor being the priority target, all other humans equal second priority.
The landscape of the story thus shifted, the third film picks up the war of attrition at the point where the timeline between the situation and sending back Reese can be covered in a single film. The rebels are more aggressive in their assualts now, and Skynet vicious in its response (the scenario Reese describes in T1 is finally the scenario the films reach, to depict in all its messy, violent glory).The principle assault the rebels mount being the raid on the time installation that will be the one kyle is sent back in time from. Kyle is sent back in time. To close the loop and make Skynet useless (it essentially now believes killing Connor will achieve it;s victory and has no other goal/program), Connor allows his own termination by an Arnie model Terminator, that Kate then sets about reprogramming to send back for T3.
Connor sacrifices himself to save humanity, and to escape the weight of his destiny/guilt at all the people he has had to allow to die for the destiny he knows will be the result to come about.
Result: techno carnage to the level people always seem to have wanted to see, with the underlying darkness of a predestined fate Connor has to steer things towards creating the atmosphere such films would need.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 3/1/2012 5:58:24 PM >
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RE: Terminator - it's official - 
Where were soldiers attacking skynet forces in the scrap yard? 
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