I agree with CJF as well the idea behind Terminator: Salvation (T:S) was to introduce us to a man (John Conner) who has hated machines for so long, cause well, he's been bashed in the head with the idea that anything that's a machine in the future has nothing else to do but try to kill him along with the rest of the human race.

I find this movie to be the Star Wars: A New Hope of Terminator films for the fact that it reintroduces us to characters in a new time period and has small character development. New Hope would have been seen this way had George Lucas made the movies in the intended order.

The other thing at fault about this story was it was so short and had nothing really to do with the grander picture, much like the fault of Quantum of Solace, it made some small steps in the right direction to help Bond get over Vespa, but ultimately what was the point to Bonds story.

I cant wait to see what is cooking in MCG's mind or whoever ends up picking up the next film, then we will be able to look back at this film and be like "oh so that why this happened, duh." Till then, we will see.