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Why would the man who created the concept of the Terminator, as well as the storyline and the human characters, not want to be involved in a film project containing them?
James Cameron's absence can, I think, best be explained by the train of thought in the first two films. In the first Terminator film, John Connor successfully leads an uprising in the year 2029, and he and his freedom fighters destroy a sentient computer bent on exterminating all human life. The machines sent back a Terminator under the assumption that they could change the future in the past. Kill Sarah Connor before she conceives her son, and John Connor will never exist.
It's funny how the events in that movie trigger the future that is to come. Reese, the soldier sent back to protect Sarah, winds up impregnating her, and Skynet finds the remains of the Terminator android and uses them to begin constructing their AI.
This raises a number of quandaries, but if we discussed them all, we'd be here all day. What's important is that in the second movie, the main characters are bent on running, determined to hide from the T-1000 so John Connor can grow to adulthood. Then, after thwarting Sarah's attemt to assassinate the head of the Skynet project, they begin to think that they might be able to change the future. I, for the most part, can ignore the time glitches in the first two Terminator films, because of the message it delivers. The future is always in motion. Nothing is set in stone, and what could happen might change, due to the actions we take in the present. In short, all futures are possible, not definite. The alternate ending to T2 demonstrates this.
Enter Terminator 3, and suddenly, that pretext gets thrown out the window. The director of this film took the underlying themes of the first two, and said, "Yeah, you can't change the future. Tough shit, learn to type." It says that the rise of the machines, and the war between humans and Terminators was destined to happen. Any normal person, who doesn't believe in fate, would just think this is really fucking stupid.
Is this intended to be "Hooray for America" propaganda? If this is the case, then I'd like to tell Hollywood: I already saw Spider Man perched on an American flag. I GET THE IDEA! Or is this just a case of Hollywood wanting to make more money by putting Arnold back in a role that people know him for, even if it means mangling an already decent storyline in the process?
I think the latter is more likely. Why else would a blonde chick be playing the evil Terminator?
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