-Ok...if John was attacked by the T-5000/skynet just as Kyle was being sent back, then how did the resistance get a chance to send the Guardian terminator/pop's back to the 1970's to protect kid Sarah?
Who said it was the resistance that sent him back. After all he did say that all that was classified. In the first 2 films nothing has ever been said about the future Sarah Connor. The cancer story line came in Rise of the Machines because Linda Hamilton didn't want to come back. I'm thinking that we will find out in the next film.
-The resistance sure knew how to figure out how to use the TDE pretty quick.
It's a movie. They can't take much time on it. Also it seemed like only a few knew about the TDE. At least the ones working on it seemed like they might have. John knew about its existence so I'm sure that helped them a lot.
-I really wanted to see the HK-Tank in action.
I was let down by this myself. I would have loved to have seen them. Other than the flying HK's it seemed like everything else was taken from the other movies and all of them seemed a bit much. I think at one point I saw a smaller HK come off of a larger one.
-So...was Skynet suppose to be "Evil" from the start or did the T-3000/JC corrupted it?
The way they portrayed Skynet in this film it does seem like it could have been good at one point. I don't remember if in the first 2 films if it was said if Skynet was really evil or not. I think it just saw humans as something that needed to be stopped. However it has been awhile since I saw the first 2 films. I do remember one can't exist without the other and that both are responsible for each others and their own creation.
-I really can't believe that Cyberdyne had been working on Liquid Metal and the Time Machine openly like that in their facility. The Dyson's were sure excited about time travel.
I really think that was just because of the future John Connor/T-Whatever he was. Something like that anyone working on it I'm sure in real life would have to sign something saying they wont say anything. With the TDE I'm sure they wouldn't even be told what it is or does. Just given what is needed to build it. Also most would probably be military working on it as the Liquid Metal would probably be pitched as some sort of future soldier.
-I don't know if I can call this a T-800 model, as it acted more like a T-850 with more understanding of human nature.
That could also be because the person that sent it back may have changed its chip to read and write instead of just read. For the T-800 models I never really could tell a difference. Was the T-850 in the Cameron films or even talked about?
-30 years is a good amount of waiting time for him and it opens the possibility of a backstory.
I think we got about as much of one as we're going to get. Pops built an armory and looked at Sara as a daughter.
-They really shouldn't have told Kyle about him being John's father.
I have to disagree on this one. With things ending the way they did I think it's good for him to know. Hell with him living he was bound to find out especially after she named the child John. This changes things for the future as we now will have a John Connor that has both parents.
-So if it's 2017 and John isn't born yet...it pushes the rise of John Conner and Skynet.
It will also make Kyle older than him. When the first meet Kyle wont be a kid and John an adult. So when Kyle is sent back in time he will also be much older than he already was. In the story I'm not sure how close him and Sarah were originally in age. Or it could speed up the time from the start of the war to when Kyle does go back so that they're still around the same ages they originally were. Movie time travel stuff I don't like to think about too much. Nothing ever seems to add up. Especially when they decide to just change the future.
-Future John Conner is technically dead since he was converted and later destroyed.
Yes, but maybe the John Connor that will now be raised by Sarah and Kyle wont be. But then none of this would have happened would it? Again movie time travel stuff that changes the outcome of things makes my head hurt thinking about it.
-Skynet is this red system core trapped underground (post credit scene)...hmmm...
Well, it is a program and has to be stored some place. I really think I could have done without this ending, but as was seen with Kyle, Sarah and Pops they all know that Judgment day will still happen.
-So Skynet sent a t-1000 to the 1970's....hmmmm that's weird.
This, Pops and the T-1000 that was sent back to 1984 all make me wonder what changed that caused Skynet to send them all back. I thought with the way the Terminator and T2: Judgement day were it was all one big circle. So something big must have changed. Even from first film to T2 something had to change because in the first film Kyle said they had won. Then in T2 another was sent back. Unless after Kyle was sent back John knew that Skynet set 2 back before he could send Kyle. I'm going to go with that unless I missed/forgot something when it comes to the first 2 films.
-Towards the end you could hear the guardian say "Take care of my Sarah" as he was showing emotion.
I'm sure it was sent back with the read/write activated on its chip. I was obvious that Sarah was teaching it things and she would have been too young to alter the chip when they first met. So the person that sent it back knew to change that chip over. With that and it raising her like a father I'm sure it grew attached. This was somewhat shown at the end of T2. Uncle Bob knew that it couldn't stay to help raise John. It looked like it would have liked to, but it knew it had to be destroyed to prevent Judgment day.
-Honestly they could have killed the Terminator (POPs)again and I think that was the original idea, but it looked like the director/writers decided to go back and just throw him into the Liquid Metal to make he survive and rescue Kyle and Sarah. It could have worked either way.
When he fell into the Liquid Metal I knew what was going to happen. Sure it could have worked either way, but this time it was nice to see the hero's live for once. At the end of the first film Kyle dies and in T2 Bob has Sarah melt him. RotM I can't really remember. I somewhat remember something about a door and the bombs going off. I remember seeing all the ash and a red eye. For Salvation I can't remember if he gave his heart or the moved John Connor's face to it. I keep thinking at the end before the credits we saw glowing red eyes. I know the ending was changed. So it's nice to see the Terminator that was good and Kyle live in this one.
-So what now? Kyle and Sarah go off and get married ?
Possibly. They stopped Judgment Day, but they obviously know it will happen. Who knows when seeing how all they did was postpone it. It my not even be Genisys, but it's best that Kyle tell himself that as a child just in case and to keep the current timeline in tact. I'm sure in the next film they will have had John.