REACTION: McG hints at what will happen in third act of 'Terminator Salvation'

Director Joseph McGinty Nichol posed two questions on Jan. 30 that might be the basis of the third act of "Terminator Salvation," saying that it is likely to make moviegoers both mad and think.

"Is Skynet smart enough to use the best parts of ourselves against ourselves? Can we trust the machine?" McG said.

McG refers to the artificial intelligence that is SkyNet abducting human beings to use as guinea pigs in trying to develop the T-800 Arnold Schwarzenegger model that is sent back in time to kill Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese in 1984's "The Terminator." He portrays its development in "Terminator Salvation" as the beginning of the end for the human race. 

Striking about this part of the director's interview with Wired is the prospect that this berserk defense network so often mentioned as an unstoppable force in past Terminator films has its own limitations that the human resistance might exploit. 

Especially shocking about what McG said is that it might be possible to trust SkyNet or its Terminator assassins.

This bodes well for a film that McG indicates is as much character-driven and philosophical in terms of its overall plot as it is jam-packed with action as it relates to human resistance fighters making machines wish they had never been assembled.

Likening the aim of the script to be something with which Christian Bale would be willing to be involved, McG said "The Dark Knight" star wanted to read a script that two naked actors could portray and that it remain compelling for two hours. He also referenced in talking about the film an affinity for stories guided by the saying, "That which makes us great will be our undoing."

All the aforementioned parts of McG's interview suggest that perhaps SkyNet will be portrayed as using organic body parts in a quest to improve itself as a defensive network the same way that human beings use technology to make fighting wars more efficient. 

Lacking in perspective from the battle-hardened protagonists in the past Terminator films is that SkyNet triggered, but did not cause an arms exchange between the U.S. and Russia because it deemed the latter nation's nuclear stockpile as threatening.

What if SkyNet simply did not understand the human concept of Mutually Assured Destruction? Could an attempt to destroy the defense network lead to this revelation?

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