The Premise of the Terminator Story is flawed

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2008)

One Remark about the basic premise of the whole Terminator Series, but particular of this last episode: The last thing that would survive a nuclear war is Machines and Technology. The Authors show no clue if they know what large Infrastructure and Economy is modern day Technology based upon.
Where are the Power Supplies, Factories, Mines, where is the transportation System and the Research Facilities to give any power at all to the Skynet System? It would have nuked out its own Requirements to exist by destroying mankind with nuclear weapons. So "The rise of the machines" would have been the end of any advanced machine and technological progress on earth.
Instead, in Reality, the growing Power of Machines over Mankind is exercised through shaping Society according to the needs of Machines and Technology, not by simply destroying human Lives. I would have liked to see that Twist going somewhere into the series Finale (so eg. by preventing the nuclear War, Connor actually helps the Machines to seize Control) - well it did not and the Script stayed true to the Vision of the first and second Terminator Movie.