"A noble death isn’t what I see in store for Cameron, I believe we’ll find out that it was Cameron in the basement of episode 6 and she got there as a result of trying to fulfil her orders to prevent JD and failed!
So in the future she is like a third power with skynet on one side and John on the other, but she is still trying to fulfil her orders by manipulating events in order to bring about a change in a way john would want but defiantly wouldn’t approve, so she is independent of future John but still helping him without his knowledge."

"You have a valid point, but if Skynet has sent back a variety of bad Terminators to the past, then one more "good" one (who actually is armed with a "humanity" weapon against Skynet) floating around won't make any difference. They know how to live off the grid anyway.

John still needs protection... as well as friendship and love. "

"Another question I've been having....What is Cameron's origin? She's obviously made in the future or is she?"

"I dont think Cameron will die (or the correct term is "terminate") at the end of the series...at least I hope she wont be. It would be a better ending to see her finally get her "humanity"

Kinda like at the end of The Wizard of Oz when the characters got their respective "rewards"...though it was revealed that they had it in themselves all along. :)"

"Yeh the Wizard of Oz references are really piling up. They not only call themselves Baum but John actually met Cameron in Kansas.

Keeping Cameron at the end of the series works for me. As long as John can keep her from falling into the hands of someone that could reverse engineer her everything should be fine.

But with all the terminators coming back she may not be the only one left around even if they do manage to stop skynet. Skynet could just pop up somewhere else.

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"It does seem like when Cameron is alone with John she tries to act more human and when other people are around she acts more like a terminator."