Ideas For The New Trilogy

[DerekThomasReese]

These are my ideas on what the new trilogy should be about.

T4-The war started in 2007 when the Connors failed to stop skynet from going online and the Connors and a few survivors take refuge in the sewers and John starts to rise up a year after the bombs fell and since then he is building his resistance and when he encounters the young Reese brothers he gets one of his soldiers to look after them.And this is what the storyline for T4 should be where John and his mother are building the resistance after they fail to stop skynet.

T5-This should be set 10 years after T4 and Sarah is dead and John married Cheri Westin from the show and they had 3 kids and after his mother died John become stronger and wins most battles that his resistance has with skynet.But a problem arises when he learns that someone has betrayed him and they start to give away troop positions and his bases.So John unleashes a plan to trap the traitor as he is relaying information to skynet and the traitor is someone he would never have expected.Also the secondary storyline is the training of the Reese brothers.This should be the storyline for T5.

T6-Is set during the final few days of the war when John is planning a final attack on the skynet base.And since the machines know he's going to attack they start to panic and they build as many infiltrators as possible to infiltrate resistance bases and kill Connor before he can launch his attack.So John gets his troops together and they start to attack skynet bases and they travel to SAC-NORAD in the cheyyene mountains where skynet is located.After they get inside the skynet labs Connor meets the traitor again and after sending back the Reese brothers and the other resistance fighters he fights the traitor and John wins and he begins to climb a rope so he can get to the skynet brain and destroy it and after destroying it his soldiers plant bombs around the facility and he blows it up.The movie ends with the brother of the traitor activating the secondary skynet mainframe.This should be the storyline for T6.(This is actually the storyline for the dawn of fate game but with a few changes).

[Erika]

Humm those sound like great plotbunnies for fanfics

[DerekThomasReese]

Thanks.I'm gonna keep working on the script and if i can i'm gonna send em to someone who could look over em and see if there good ideas.

[Derek Reese]

Karma for the ideas and opening the thread!

[DerekThomasReese]

Thanks for the Karma.

[vicheron]

The immediate post-Judgment period is going to be extremely chaotic and confusing. The survivors aren't going to know anything. No one will know who started the war, why it was started, or whether or not it's still going on. Skynet certainly won't go around announcing to people that it's a supercomputer bent on the destruction of the human race. Skynet can really take advantage of the confusion. It can send out false intelligence to the military remnants, sowing mistrust and causing infighting, effectively eliminating the greatest threat to its survival. This probably also be the time when Skynet begins to build up its forces. It can use the survivors' desperation and ignorance to lure them to its work camps.

The beginning of the war, the aftermath of the nuclear exchange is going to be a much greater challenge for John Connor than the threat of Skynet. John will have to deal with the confusion, chaos, hunger, and desperation before he can actually start mobilizing. Then John would have to reveal to the survivors Skynet's deceptions to stop the infighting and distrust, and unify them against Skynet.

[DerekThomasReese]

Yeah you have a point there vicheron i'll work on that.Thanks.

[Derek Reese]

Karma to Vic as well.

And welcome DerekThomasResse.

[DerekThomasReese]

Actually i've been here for a while i just changed my handle.I was formerly JohnConnorTerminator but i changed it to DTR.

[Derek Reese]

D'oh, well welcome back. I know we've got a small count of people but it's hard to keep track of 200 plus and that includes name changes.

[dave]

I've always wondered about what happened throughout the rest of the world. A nuclear exchange between Russia and the US would precipitate crisis and depopulation in all parts of the world but it wouldn't leave them as devastated as the main combatants and with far greater access to industrial infrastructure and resources.

I only bring it up because it's something that's never mentioned in the films but could provide some very interesting dynamics. It's one thing to have a straight fight of man versus machine but how would, for example, the Chinese react to an assault from SkyNet? With global communications down (or dominated by SkyNet) and the resistance unable to send warning wouldn't they interpret it, being unaware of SkyNet's true nature, as an assault by the US using robots? Or on the other hand, in an ironic turnaround of the last two global conflicts, would the remnants of other nations be able to send aid to the beleaguered Americans in the form of materials and technology (I always thought it odd that people forced into living in sewers apparently had the industrial capacity to develop and produce sophisticated laser weapons).

These are all issues I think would be interesting to see explored in a future war series.

[vicheron]

Even if a government somehow survives Judgment Day, it's not going to be able to do anything. Self preservation will be the number one priority. Without know why the war started and who's involved, everyone will be paranoid. Without being able to communicate with others, the surviving nations will be expecting an attack. Plus since Skynet will have control of the government's infrastructure, it can send false information to the surviving nations in order to neutralize them as a threat.

[rossbondreturns]

Also if people think that Skynet is going to leave the Southern Hemisphere alone...I wouldn't bet on it.

[vicheron]

There will probably be a lot of infighting among the survivors, especially if there are still organized governments around. For example, if China's government somehow survives Judgment Day, it'll still have millions of mouths to feed. In order for it to consolidate its power, it will have to give protection and supplies to the survivors. With a considerable amount of their agriculture and infrastructure destroyed, they may look to neighboring nations for what they need.