Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 31, 2010 21:50:15 GMT
The original skynet was LOSING at that time, they didn't definitively loose until the resistance squadron took ahold of the man supercomputers that were skynet itself (at that time they also took over the time-displacement equipment). Skynet was still functional and still had A LOT of control before that.
Yes. But Skynet is f**ked. What we are seeing in T2 is the "final battle", where Skynet knows that he is f**ked so that's why he's sending all his army in this desperate attack. Humans usually hide and attack strategic points and come back to hide again, they don't throw themselves in the battlefield ala Braveheart because humans would have been extinct in seconds. So a battle like what we see on T2 is not an ordinary one. It's not clear why humans have ALMOST defeated Skynet but apparently the responsible for this almost-defeat is John Connor because he tought humans all these "hide-attack-and-run" guerrilla techniques.
Skynet, desperated and in fear, decides to throw all he has to the battefield, including the endoskeletons. Same time, he also choses to send a terminator back to 1984 and another to 1991 in order to make sure John Connor is never born.
John Connor infiltrates inside the supercomputers building, he first sends Kyle Reese to 1984 to make sure he is born. Second, he sends a T-800 to 1991 in order to make sure the war -at least in some alternate reality- will never happen. --- After that, John probably puts a bomb to Skynet and humans win for good.
Yep, it was confirmed by james cameron that that was indeed a final battle. But endoskeletons had been out as "fighters" before then, though! Just for whenever a resistance scouting trip or something was out there, they'd have endoskeletons there to cut them down if the HK's failed.
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I'm not sure about that last line, have you read that somewhere? As said massive battlefields were not the daily thing, since skynet's army acted more like cops constantly patrolling, searching for humanity that is hidden and almost never on the surface of the planet. On the other hand, humans acted more like a guerrilla, small groups attacking one important point and then running away. It's the only chance for humans to survive. Big open battles ala warhammer would have ended with the 100% of humans dead in seconds.
Yes, they were more like "cops". You could consider them to be fighters though, as they were never skinned and were never meant to sneak into human bases (the ones that were skinned were meant to sneak into human bases though, duh! )
Yes that's what T3 made up to continue with the franchise. It's ok to me, to continue with franchises is perfectly fine. Yet truth to be told, I even prefer to see T1 as a whole and single, perfect, story. ... T2 is a very excellent extra, meanwhile T3 and TS and all that are quite interesting little easter eggs. But in terms of total coherence, T1 stands perfectly by its own and eveyrhitng else is really unnecessary.
I agree completely