This movie might be a lot of fun, especially since it appears to finally drop Ahnold and reboots to the basic premise: an AI that views us as a threat and wants to wipe us out.

But the more I have thought about the basic concept of the Terminator series over the years, the less realistic, and therefore the less scary, it seemed to me.

If Skynet was merely patient and a lot more subtle, it could have easily induced all the humans to voluntarily march straight into irrelevance and extinction—no shots fired, no pyrotechnics.

Witness this example:

[www.angryflower.com]

If Skynet simply waited for its infrastructure to be more irreversibly enmeshed with human lifesupport, it it just waited for the technology to advance a bit, it could have had access to nanoweapons and just put the whole planet to sleep without a shot being fired.