Always Bugged Me

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2019)

The ending of this movie has always bugged me. Not because it's dark or depressing or subverts our expectations. That's fine as far as it goes. No, it bothers me because it makes no sense. John says in his closing narration that Skynet no longer has a single, central location. It has dispersed itself over the internet into millions of computers. Fine.
Except I'm fairly confident that the internet would stop working in the event of a global nuclear war.
Most of the computers in the world, like most of the people, are in cities. And those computers would be destroyed along with everything else in those cities when they were nuked. Not to mention that most of the infrastructure that connects those computers would also be destroyed.
Most of the computers that were not physically destroyed would be rendered inoperative by the EMPs from hundreds of nuclear detonations. Not to mention that most of them would lose power as well.
Skynet is a computer program. It can't survive without electricity, and a computer with enough memory to contain it. If it dispersed itself across the internet, and then nuked most of the technology that makes the internet work, it would essentially be committing suicide.
That's my two cents about that.