REACTION: New 'Terminator Salvation' trailer reveals the revved up fate of the human race

There is no fate except that which the main characters in the past three Terminator movies make. At least that is what is indicated in the new "Terminator Salvation" trailer.

Which starts off with Sam Worthington's Marcus Wright walking toward the remains of a post-Judgment Day gas station similar to the one at which Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor declared that a storm was coming at the end of 1984's "The Terminator."

Trailer dialogue indicates Marcus Wright is a Terminator, but it is not clear whether the machine is friend or foe. This is one way that the movie stands out from its predecessors.

What makes this future different from that which Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese told Sarah Connor about before knocking her up and from the couple of war scenes at the start of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine" is that some of the Terminators now have arms equipped with machine gun turrets, others look like motorcycles straight out of hell and one in particular comes in jumbo size.

How the new 2018 post-Judgement Day future differs from the one established as having come to be in 2018 is that the human resistance, though Christian Bale's John Connor says in the new trailer that they are losing, is equipped with more than just guns and Terminator-sniffing dogs this time around. They now have Road-Warrior-like mack trucks, helicopters and wear not-so-rag-tag looking military garb. In other words, it seems as though they are all dressed up with nowhere to go in terms of an effective battle strategy.

Of course, it stands to reason and should be no surprise that the future would be different in a movie series that started with the premise of traveling back in time to change the past. But what clips from the latest trailer reveal about the plot of "Terminator Salvation" is that these efforts only served to intensify the war John Connor was destined to wage.

Kyle Reese was partly right in "The Terminator" when he told Sarah Connor that the future had no yet been written, though he must have meant that the details of the war were yet to be determined. Maybe he was just trying to make her comfortable enough for some passion that might some day lead the human race to victory against cybernetic organisms.