i just don’t understand how they’ve plotted out a trilogy unless there are some kind of human bad guys? a nameless and faceless skynet isn’t going to cut it anymore. T1, 2 and 3 work because sarah and john have to be protected to get to the future that they are a big part of, but in T4 they have to be fighting and i just can’t see them fighting nothing but machines for 3 films.

maybe some form of this ides is the change in the future mentioned in the trailer?

that sounds interesting. one thing though, i really love how the T4 poster looks, its all cyborg, compared to all the half-human half-cyborg posters lol. looks scary too ‘^^

The movie is going to take place in the year 2018. 15 years after judgement day.

A german movie site says that marcus appears with amnesia and John Conner doesnt know whether he is from the future or the past and that they are going to discover some SkyNet mysteries…..

http://www.zelluloid.de/filme/index.php3?id=1265

http://rss.warnerbros.com/terminatorsalvation/

on the poster you can see the T-600 series

honestly i wouldnt give much about the line: “That’s not the future my moher warned me about” from the teaser…… and i dont want it to be different…… because then we would have the paradox problem…..
if it is a closed time line they have to do all the things mentioned in the films before and there are no paradoxa……

ok i stop speculating and i hope the best for this movie….

Its true that in T3 the T-800 mentions that Connor died. Also in the new Salvation trailer, conner says its not the same future he was led to believe. So theres a certain ambiguity going on there to which and what kind of future that is. My big concern is that, if its different and brings change to the Terminator franchise, i hope it ties well with the previous movies, if not, its going to suck really bad. I totally agree with you about the development of Terminators from 800-1000 and especially the TX lol.

Another thing is, how far into the future are we talking about here, right? Is it imedietely after T3 or some time after? Cause in the trailer, at the end of it we saw that tank-like-terminator emerging behind Connor, that model was still in T3. I’m guessing that T4 is like directly after T3, then T5 the big bad war (like clone wars), and T6 is where humans prevail, but, T4 is already titled Terminator Salvation, it sounds like its the only future we’ll see. i dunno i’m just guessing :)

John Conner has to die. The T-800 in T3 said he had killed him. So he has to die. Maybe we’ll see him die in T6.
My only hope is that they show all those things we heard about in the first 3 movies. I guess in Terminator Salvation we will see how the first T-800 is sent back to kill Sarah Connor. That would be cool. And i want to see how Skynet develops all the Terminator series from the T-600 over the T-800 to the T-1000 and the TX. They should ad a little more science to it.

Recently I read an excerpt from an interview with James Cameron. He talkes about the names which confused me sometimes. Is it the T-800 or the T-101.
He said the Series number referrs to the Endoskelleton type. So Schwarzenegger always played the T-800 Series. The Model number 101 referrs to their infiltration look. All the T-800s we have seen look the same because all their model numbers were 101.
In T2 there is a Terminator view with a StartUp Screen. Look at the left upper corner!

http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap7394817mz0.jpg

What i want to say is that if there is going to be an T-800 Infiltration Unit in the new movies they will have another model number due to the fact that we have another actor playing them :D
No more Arnold looks……