Pointless plot and absolute disrespect towards the source material

Part 1, because of character limit. Here are the stupidest points in this film:

1. It was established in T1 and T2, that sending back a terminator and a protector was a last ditch effort by SkyNet and the resistance, and the time machine was destroyed after that. So there should be no more terminators coming, as there is no time machine to send them through. This was not addressed at all!

2. Sarah and John are inexplicably chilling on a beach in 1998. You could say the date has significance, because they stopped JD happening in 1997, so they were calm and tried to have a normal life, but... it still directly goes against Sarah's character to not be alert at any given time about potential threats to his son. For a Terminator to get a drop on them like that is disrespectful towards the characterization of these two in T2. At least they should've put up a fight. Sarah was unable to produce even a handgun to protect John. Of course without the help of any protectors, they wouldn't have stood a chance, but still... Of course JC is Cameron's character, so he can do anything with him, but my heart dropped when I read his quote about why he thought it was a good idea to kill off John like that. Newsflash: it wasn't. Not like this, not without dismissing the previous point and not without any meaning (see next point).

3. John's death was meaningless in the long run: only the names of the AI and the people involved changed, but history is always playing out the same way (so much for "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves"), so what's the point?

4. The Rev 9 doesn't bring anything new to the table. It's incredible that since 1991, no one could come up with a truly surprising ability for any terminator models we saw ever since. It speaks to T2's brilliance that's for sure. Liquid metal, stabbing weapons, imitation of people, endoskeleton... it's like a goddamned checklist from T1 and T2. Besides that, the guy played it has 0,0000003% of the charisma of Robert Patrick.

5. Grace, the protector has also very little character and charisma. Conceptually she is a cross between a human and a terminator, but in order to avoid her being OP, they gave him this "short bursts of action" weakness. It really showed how the writers artificially crammed this into the plot. Also, the fact that she is saved by Dani and sent back to protect her is a lame rehash of Kyle Reese's relationship to John & Sarah... in that movie it made sense from time travel standpoint to send him back, it had extra meaning. Here? Nah. Also, apart from being a badass soldier, she did not have any character traits. Kyle Reese was human, and had some moments where his personality was revealed. We don't get anything here.

6. The plot is entirely pointless. It's T2 again, just like T3 and T5. T5 at least had some creativity as it played around with some characters and concepts and had interesting parts. It wasn't a good movie (mainly because of the horrible, horrible casting choices for Kyle Reese and John Connor), but at least it was bold and took some chances. This movie not so much, everything happens just like in T2. Arnold at one point is even damaged almost the same way as in T2, before he switches to a backup power source, just like in T2. Disgusting.

7. The action scenes are nothing special. A complete misunderstanding of what made T2 a great movie. Truck chase? Check. Helicopter chase? Check. Liquid terminator blowing up then reassembling? Check. T-800 VS liquid terminator? Check. The only new elements were the plane scene and the endoskeleton - liquid outer layer separation trick. The former was entirely forgettable, and even this latter new element was under-utilized. It could have used for some neat fight coreography, but that would actually have taken some effort, so obviously no such scene was planned. I was very excited after the factory fight scene at the start, because finally it was a well-lit scene with nice coreography and fun beats. After that, the highway scene was decent - and then everything went downhill fast. The night scenes in T2 were much better lit than the night scenes in this movie. And the location of the final fight was lame - a similar "factory" looked much better in T2.

8. The main character, Dani was so forgettable, I almost forgot her entirely.