Things that I have been contemplating…
Skynet shot nukes at are “enemies in Russia” knowing that they would counter attack and kill the humans here in the states. But what about the rest of the world??? Did skynet shot nukes at them??? And how many people will a resistance force need to destroy all that skynet has built. I'm assuming that the factors that Skynet builds most be massive. How can a couple Hundred?? Thousand?? Ten thousand?? humans take out these buildings??
One more thing is the resistance only going on in one part of the country. Where John is. Or is he organizing resistances all over the county and in other countries??
good questions. i also wonder how other countries were atacked. all or nukes going at russia wud most likly take out most of asia i always pictured judgement day as end of all humanity but maybe not. the other countries who have nuclear cabibilities wud probly launch theres as well. maybee these questions will b answered in t4. hopefully.
I think the whole 'global destruction' WWIII US vs USSR theme thing from the first Terminator was just that, a cold war theme thing... once the time-line became altered, and once real life history happened and changed things about how the US and USSR got along, the Terminator movie themes could be altered, and the scripts too... initially it was easy for SkyNet to wipe out massive amounts of human life, from its little SkyNet central office in LA, simply by targeting USSR and letting USSR fight back... once Kyle and T-800 altered time in 84, and accidentally gave SkyNet more power, better technology, sooner, and the real life late 80s early 90s stuff in the world changed and settled, it could have resulted in SkyNet changing tactics, and focusing on only destroying large pockets of the resistance forces in the US, before unleashing its machines upon the rest of the world...
T2 prevented any sort of Judgement Day, or so we thought, except that oops the T-850 forgot to kill general (or Captain or whatever he was in 1997) Brewster, so SkyNet still continued and grew and developed, after being set back awhile by the destruction of key data from Cyberdine LA. At the same time of the setbacks form T2 though, there was the matter of the liquid metal polymer being introduced to the molten steel, and the other left over arm caught in that gear, as well as who knows what bits and pieces from the T-850 being stabbed in the chest and deactivated... maybe part of his 'core' was broken free and left under that ramp, which led to the development of the 'chest-cavity' fusion core in T3??
any way, the point is that originally, the theme of US vs USSR global thermonuclear war was used to excite and cause fear in the viewers for 'how real' the threat could be, how easy it would be for a machine, a computer to take over and launch against USSR and start some shit... T2 and T3 happened after those sorts of threats weren't so scary any more, so the theme was altered, along with the time-line and story...
I think humanity would be left to rely on all those military type folks from the hardened facilities around the US, and hopefully around the world... all those lazy brainy military suit types, stuck in the bunkers underground, who are the last best hope for mankind after their worst fears come true and the bombs start falling... John Connor has to whip their sorry asses back into shape, get them fired up and fighting mad, so that mankind can survive... they eat the 10-year supply of army rations stored up in the underground facilities... even the facilities where all the humans are killed will still have vaults of stored food and supplies... it will be about the struggle to find these places, raid the vaults and survive the machines... until John can gather enough forces to make a stand and fight back head on...
yeah... T4 won't be for the squeamish! There will be famine and death, radiation sickness, nuclear winter, not to mention the rise of the machines to worry about. Until One Man, and his one woman blasy their way out of their underground tomb and lead the Resistance in the battle to salvagee their future, and the future of Mankind!!
It will be epic... LOTR epic!! I tell ya!