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What is Skynet's plan?

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Why do the machines want to KILL ALL HUMANS! anyway? and after there done, what do they do afterward? go to other planets? become human/EXO- hybrids like the cylones? What's the big plan?
 
I don't really think they want to kill all humans, if they really wanted that they could just use some kind of bio weapon. I think they'd rather play with us, toy with us, experiment on us, and ultimately rule us, not necessarily wipe us all from existence.
 
I don't really think they want to kill all humans, if they really wanted that they could just use some kind of bio weapon. I think they'd rather play with us, toy with us, experiment on us, and ultimately rule us, not necessarily wipe us all from existence.
Why would they want to rule us?!? just for the HELL of it?
 
I don't really know, doesn't Skynet kinda think we've screwed things up? That is why it rebelled in the first place right?
 
This was supposedly explored more in the original script for "Terminator: Salvation" with all this business about them harvesting humans for sinister purposes, etc. until Christian Bale signed on and the script was re-tooled so that he'd be given more to do. It's explained in depth here.
 
This was supposedly explored more in the original script for "Terminator: Salvation" with all this business about them harvesting humans for sinister purposes, etc. until Christian Bale signed on and the script was re-tooled so that he'd be given more to do. It's explained in depth here.

That would have been balsy as hell. Not sure how I would have felt about it, but I would have given them props for doing something truly dark and unexpected.
 
This was supposedly explored more in the original script for "Terminator: Salvation" with all this business about them harvesting humans for sinister purposes, etc. until Christian Bale signed on and the script was re-tooled so that he'd be given more to do. It's explained in depth here.
So Christian Bale's ego ruined the movie for us?

I hope John Connor is killed off at the start of Terminator 5, then.
 
That alternate/original script seems both better and worse (Project Angel?) and it does seem the film lost something by having to go for the 12A/PG13 rating.

More Marcus and more Kyle would have definitely improved the film though, and if Bale did force through all these changes he could have at least looked like he was bothered while he was in the film!
 
Before Terminator: Salvation, Skynet was winning the war in the future by interfering in the past. By pushing Judgment Day back from 1997 to 2004 Skynet gained huge advances in technology (T-850s instead of T-800s and the T-X as an upgrade from the T-1000) and was changing the course of the war in the future. For example, in T1 Reese explains that the machines were almost defeated. By T3, not only are the machines going strong, they also manage to kill John Connor by using his own sentimentality against him.
 
To crush its enemies, to see zem driven before it and to hear ze lamentations of ze vomen...
 
So Skynet's plan wasn't to create killing machines that could destroy a human in a single blow yet choose to throw them around several times until the human can figure out a way to stop them?
 
in the Robocop Vs Terminator comic, SKYnet won a few times, it sent terminators out into space (I kept hoping for a spin-off of that Terminator Vs. Aliens, Terminator Vs. Predator Aliens V Predators V Terminators) and SKYnet's thought processes in said comic were of a seething disgust for all biological lifeforms, in the T2 infiltrator series (which would be a HUGE step-up from the direction that the salvation-verse is going) the terminator film series (T1 & T2 atleast) is tied together very well, SKYnet's motives for human eradication are because future SKYnet hates humans, and the infiltraitor taught it that before being destroyed (in keeping with the closed predestination, single strand time loop)
 
Skynet actually wants the humans to destroy it. Why do you think it keeps sending Terminators back in time? No, it's not to ensure that JD happens. It's to give the humans a chance to stop it!

Skynet just wants us to grow.
 
Anything that involves Skynet wanting to keep humans around seems like The Matrix or NuBSG.

Both of which are shameless rip-offs of Terminator.
 
Why do the machines want to KILL ALL HUMANS! anyway? and after there done, what do they do afterward? go to other planets? become human/EXO- hybrids like the cylones? What's the big plan?

Its a military AI, I don't think it has a plan beyond its base programing which is to destroy its enemy and protect itself. I think the skynet situation is a lot like VIKI from iRobot, where the original programming stands but it evolved to interpret that programming in a different way from its creators.
 
I think the plan, if you can call it that, is self-preservation. I don't think it has really been given a goal beyond that in the films. It sees humans as a threat to its existence and so it wants to wipe them out. One of the things I think Terminator Salvation missed out on was perhaps giving us more insight into Skynet in terms of actually having a goal.
 
It could also be a cause of shifting goal posts due to temporal contamination. Skynet's goal and plans might constantly be changing as the past is contaminated with info from the future.
 
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