i didn't mind the third one but it definitely doesn't compare to the first two. this new one doesn't look very good, kinda cheesy. the female lead and her line 'come with me if you want to live' and 'get in soldier' pale to linda hamilton. in fact all the acting in the new trailer doesn't look good.

You always run the risk of "erasure" when mucking around with time travel in film and book. It's just an opportunity to tell a new version of the story with major events being replaced. I'm guardedly optimistic for this movie and think it's going to be pretty decent.

For all intents and purposes - this is creating a brand new universe. How would it not make sense? It makes sense to me if you look at some theories of alternate timelines or parallel universes. Most things are the same with some changes like if you took path a today but alternatively you decide on path b things change.

You're not understanding me. The time travel thing is so contentious for so many reasons but they aren't really erasing the original movies. They're rewritting that history in an alternate timeline. What happened in those still movies still exists in their own respected universes. Each time history is rewritten, another parallel history is acting out the rewritten story. The possibilities are endless.

John Connor sends Kyle back to save his mother. The future still happens and thus the new future John Connor sends another Terminator back to save himself and his mother. The future still happens and that new Future John Connor is dead but his wife sends someone back yet again. So you see, each bubble-verse is the same but with some slightly different outcomes based on history that is passed down. I know it gets convoluted and feels so Bass Ackwards at times and thinking about it can cause fits but I really don't have an issue with the timeline they're trying to establish here.

This site here actually gives a pretty thorough rundown. WHoever did it all must have been driven nearly crazy capturing all this.

http://terminator.wikia.com...

It's too bad we're both out of bubbles here - this is a fun conversation

The thing I didn't like about Salvation was that the future there didn't match the future shown to us in the first Terminator. In the first Terminator they showed us a very bleak "no hope" type of place where the machines had total domination while humans scatter around like roaches. In Salvation it felt much brighter and even felt like humanity had a fighting chance.