I'm not a big fan of any of the Terminator movies, but I found the first two at least believable, with meaninful plots. So much of the violence and destruction lack purpose in T3. Example: In the chase scene with the T-X terminator driving the crane, what is the purpose of turning the crane sideways to start ploughing through the buildings? It impeded its progress toward achieving its mission. Something a terminator would never do. The scene became laughable to me.
Most glaring is where the plot leads. If Skynet does indeed become self-aware, it is like an infant becoming self-aware . . . not understanding that the action it will take will render itself incapacitated. Any nuclear blast produces large amounts of electromagnetic energy. These EM pulses fry everything electronic, particularly sensitive computer chips. If Skynet did exist as software on everyone's PCs and mainframes, as the plot indicates, the scale of the attack would have essentially killed off Skynet or isolated each computer from each other . . . like isolating every individual brain cell from communicating with each other. Any way you slice it, the people left would have nothing to fear from Skynet. The machines would have managed to kill themselves off.
If the Terminator movies have a point to pay attention to, it is that humankind must always be wary of our dependence on technology. An ironic point, I understand, as I compose this on my personal computer. And nobody can read this without the same. I find that we trust technology too easily . . . we are very willing to turn ourselves over to it without giving it a thought. Perhaps this is why it seems so hard to grasp a sense of the Divine. We have lost our ability to see and hear God. Something that will truly lead to our destruction.
Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
They are brought to their knees and fall,
but we rise up and stand firm.Psalm 20:7-8
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