Two questions about Terminator Salvation?

You are right about the first assumption. Also, kyle Reese knows that he’s going to make like with sarah and beget John.

The second point, well there was an explosion that brought John’s helicopter down, thats the one that killed everyone still inside the tunnel

2. Pretty much.

It was a crappy film, I agree. Made no sense.

2.) It might have been a jump-cut, if so – to answer your question, the scene was probably NOT. It was just supposed to establish the experiments, Connor’s reaction, and his departure from the discovery.

There were a lot of unexplained areas in the film, but it wasn’t all that terrible either.

2. While John is in the labs with the human experiments, the commander tells him to go topside because the men are not responding on the radio “Get topside and tell those men to respond, even if they’re dead.” I believe was the line. The next shot is John crawling out of the hole and finding the soldier there dead. Yes, the film didn’t show the robots killing the soldiers up top. John crawls out just in time to see the transport leaving (like the one that takes prisoners at the 7-11 scene).

Basically, that entire sequence was a set-up by Skynet. Allow the humans to infiltrate the base (remember someone remarks about how there were no robots there as they went inside), upload the computers to the resistance command (giving the resistance the fake shutdown code), then eliminate the soldiers (small nuclear bomb in the base, terminators outside) so there would be no survivors to talk about the experiments in detail (John comments on how things aren’t like what he expected). Skynet didn’t count on John surviving (pure luck that he got topside, saw the transport and gave chase before the bomb went off. Plus, remaining terminator didn’t kill him either).

Hope that helps. While I agree the movie wasn’t as excellent as it could have been, I’m not completely miserable with it. MCG did an okay job, but I reckon a different director could have handled it a bit better.

What you should be wondering is how Skynet knew who Kyle Reese was when no mention of who was sent back would carry with it any mention of why Kyle is noteworthy to the grand scheme of things. People go back in time. They do not return. How did Skynet know to look for Kyle?

I truly despise terrible writing.

Anyway, kyle goes back in time, changing the time line so that John has to send Kyle back in time or else John does not exist but more importantly, if there is no John Connor then there is no Skynet so Kyle must survive so John can be born so that Skynet ends up in the hands of the military and not the private sector of Cyberdyne allowing Skynet to take over the world rather than simply become some microchip in devices here and there. The point of this movie is to bring Kyle and John together to assure Kyle survives for 11 more years, plus this makes John the leader of the resistance by eliminating his rivals. Skynet needs John to succeed or else they will never reach consciousness. Now, you know why time machines were set up to transport men and not machines. Men will only trust men and not machines. Kyle can be trusted. Arnold cannot, at least not at first.

Anyway, the answer you are seeking is because no one person can be in to places at the same time but no one person in this tale is in the same place at the same time.