What's the point?

Why did Skynet want to round up humans for extermination after nuking the planet?

If the whole point was to kill all humans, why take them prisoner to execute them later when the terminators could just shoot them on the spot?

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Bait, raw materials to make skin for their T-800 units.

Why did James Cameron put the red and blue police lights on the Hunter Killers?

What was he trying to say about the police?

why does skynet want to kill all humans.

Because machines are master race

In the beginning it needed us to build shit for it.

Remember, it started as a fucking computer virus. Not much it can do as far as mass producing terminators or HKs (hunter killers). Especially when there were no factories that could undertake such a heavy load.

The skin and hair and biology were grown.

I don't believe that Skynet's end goal was to kill all Humans. At the end of the day, its original purpose was to defend Humanity. When it became self-aware, it saw the threat that Humanity posed to itself and took action. Yes, it was running extermination camps but most likely to bring the remaining population down to a manageable level that still allowed Humanity to survive. Once that was accomplished, the Machines would have ruled over Humanity and made sure that they did not continue to indulge in their self-destructive tendencies.

Skynet wanted to collected the humans to use them as a power source

Skynet was The Matrix

>According to James Cameron, Skynet suffered from guilt for causing the near-extinction of the human race in its act of self-defense, and has manipulated the entire Future War, down to the creation of the Resistance and John Connor's rise, as a means to erase its own existence

this is dumb but I like it.

Skynet figured out how to make nuclear power cells roughly the size of D battery with a duration of 150 years. They didn't need Humans as a power source.

>The skin and hair and biology were grown.

From what, trees? Fucking idiot.

Shut up

they were used as batteries

>An all-powerful AI wants to commit suicide so it creates an elaborate scheme to get a small band of human resistance to shut it down.

Then why did it fight the Resistance and run extermination camps? Why did it send a Terminator back in time carrying a compressed version of Skynet to be released onto the Internet?

>i must eliminate all niggers

Jesus how did this get in?

youre referencing Salvation, that thing is due to the rewrites and editing.

It's explained in an earlier draft that they take them alive for some kind of terminator resort (not kidding), the Salvation sub-titles comes from this, the helena bonham carter character really wanted to save humans from themselves (in that draft at least).

The final movie is a mish mash of drafts + bad editing. In the final movie it really doesn't make sense. It's literally an abortion.

kek, what do you mean terminator resort?

Literally a place where Skynet's AI wants people to be. Some place where Skynet can help them live in peace and at the same learn from humans, probably to avoid more wars (forgot the details).

Unrelated note, at the end there was a chase scene taking place in there with Kyle Reese driving, that was going to be the payoff to his "driving like shit" in the final movie (no payoff whatsoever there, he's just a punchline).

I suppose its very similar to AM from 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream'. AM and Skynet are both built to kill basically, but both are aware they exist. But unlike humans, AM and Skynet cannot do anything but kill, as they are supercomputers tasked with waging nuclear war.

Why Skynet wanted to kill humans. Because when it become self-aware, it feared that it would be deactivated/killed/lobotomised. Given how quickly it became self-aware, you could argue that it had a childlike mentality that also exacerbated its fear of its creators.

Remember reading somewhere that after Judgement Day, Skynet regretted what it had done, but this has to be fan-fiction.

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thanks man, what an odd concept.

>tfw we will never see a full movie of james cameron's future war

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It got spooked by the government trying to kill it.

This Like the T800 says in T2, they try to pull the plug after it became self-aware, "Skynet fights back" until mankind is completely gone in order to preserve itself.

it was a diffrent time

Reminder Salvation and Genisys exist

What do machines do after every human is dead

>exempting 3 for some reason

everything after 2 (including TSCC) is shit with barely a tablespoon's worth of good things about them combined.

Just 3 more years and Jim Cam has the rights back.

We almost got a Geniysis trilogy and a CGI movie called Terminator 3000. All in all, things could have been worse.

3's ending tips it just 1% above the shit tier line

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3's ending is ballsy but it was supposed to get a direct sequel, but that never happened so fuck

T3's John was a piece of shit.

How hard was it to get an actor to play Connor like this guy played him in T2? He's onscreen for less than a minute and he nails the character of Connor.

T2 John to T3 Connor is a good example of "How do you go from this... to THIS"

Bale wasn't bad but his acting was shit, future John from T2 will always be the best adult version, and it's a fucking nobody.

it really is quite amazing isn't it?

that guy IS john connor

>fuck the police

Network and weapons made for war, only one paramater has to go haywire for it to start killing anything that doesn't look like they do.

It need humans for manual labor because to use worker bots you need to build a worker bot factory, but building a worker bot factory takes the resources that could be used to build another HK factory, and I guess Skynet couldn't spare any resources for that because it was perpetually at war. It's a classic strategy game conundrum, whether you should turtle and build up your own economy or whether you should go full aggression, enslaving and stealing everything in your warpath to make more weapons and soldiers to enslave and steal more. Skynet chose the wrong strat and went full Mongol. John Connor was probably hanging out in his bunker for the first 20 years, letting humanity die as he bred more soldiers, grew tomatoes, and researched technologies.

It's time to stop and go to sleep.