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So in the future JC leads and must have both ways and means for a very badly beaten humanity to over come a very successful SkyNet and growing army of Terminators. This poses some plot angles that have never been covered, like:

1. What could they possibly be - given the huge imbalance of odds that late in the war?

Did they reverse the polarity of Skynet's distributed brain? Did they invent instance rust? They must have had one pretty powerful silver bullet - that worked on a distributed battlefield scenario - like tricking Skynet to use Vista maybe?

2. Why couldn't Skynet send back a terminator to simply pass on the countertactics to eradicate their achilles heel rather than hunt JC down the rabbit hole?

Like the Wizard of Oz - if only the Wicked Witch didn't keep a bucket of water - the only thing that could kill her next to Dorothy - poor, poor thinking! So if Skynet has a "silver bullet" vunerability - why not send a Terminator back to close the loophole? Answer - then you wouldn't have a prolonged chase movie!

3. If you send back a terminator - an infiltrator unit - why not kill someone important like a senior law enforcement offical or world leader and use their resources to hunt down the Connors and/or tear the world apart?

Seriously - how many folk could start a nuclear war, mobilise the CIA or FBI or KGB or GRU and get these guys to further Skynet's agenda far more than a lone gunman?

4. Why doesn't Skynet have a major super-power AI competing against it?

This would make more sense as to why human could eventually win. A three way fight Russian vs American Terminators and their respective AI's - would be enough of a power balancer that humans actions could tip the fight. Without an incredibly powerful equaliser its simply doesn't make sense - the odds against are way too huge - disease, discord, famine, lack of arms, lack of intelligence - no way."

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Hmm - I bet those tactics are codified... In fact a AI as smart as Skynet could and would obivously absorb them and most likely go through all recorded military history, strategy and tactics and I mean all in under 5 minutes. If it grew from chess playing it would know all about alpha / beta tree pruning to maximise gain and apply it to complex war fare. SkyNet was designed to run wars remember and originally do it at teraflop speed - and that was when it first switched on and before it probably linked all computers - distributed itself and up its computer resources therefore a billion fold.

Your sword cuts both ways - and Skynet is distributed, holds all the resources, all the intel, all the high speed communications, has constant survelliance, never sleeps. And In Jyle's own words - we were at the brink - almost gone. The USA and Russia and probably China threw all their nuclear weaponary into the fray. So there's 95% of the worlds population dead and the rest disorganised, no command structure, little food or shelter, and no real assets to fight a far, far, far superior foe - that has analysed all your tactics for response.

It sounds incredibly one sided to me. If you knew much about military history you know adverse correlation of forces and firepower and intelligence spell total disaster. It would be way less than a billion to one shot you'd recover and win back from a dooms day holocaust - the mother of all holocausts - which is only Skynets first move - and you bet it planned more - poision in water supplies, air vectors, disease, dis-information on public broadcast channels. Every remaining broadcast channel saying this is John Connor - go hear and help me - as a total set up.

Humanity's chances are big fat zero unless a major silver bullet is found that Skynet simply can't respond to. Give me even one plausible scenario - PC virus, EMPs disrupting power grids - name one - but it would have to be awesome!"