...Marcus Wright had signed over his body to Cyberdyne Systems and ended up being used as a model for the T-800 Model 101 Terminator...
The only T-800 resp. T-850 we've seen in all four movies was the model 101 - the one that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Marcus Wright wasn't a standard terminator of a specific series; instead, Skynet called him a one-of-a-kind "infiltration machine".
Another problem I had centered around John Connor’s inability to remember that two previous T-800 Terminators had saved his life in the past. Instead, the only thing remembered from his first meeting with Marcus Wright was that the latter reminded him of the cyborg who tried to kill his mother, Sarah, in 1984.
I didn't see it like that. Connor was told by the T-850 model 101 in Terminator 3 that it had/would kill him in 2032. After Judgment Day, he knew that any further T-800s he met would be trying to kill him; after all, they wouldn't be reprogrammed (yet). Furthermore, I didn't get the impression that Marcus Wright specifically reminded Connor of the T-800, but rather, that Connor saw Wright as the personification of Skynet, his mortal enemy, and addressed him just as he would have addressed Skynet itself.
Aside from these two points, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Admittedly, I thought that Christian Bale delivered - for him - a solid, but average performance (which, compared to other actors, was really good), whereas Sam Worthington was truly outstanding as Marcus Wright, but their best scenes were undoubtedly the ones they were in together.
...Marcus Wright had signed over his body to Cyberdyne Systems and ended up being used as a model for the T-800 Model 101 Terminator...
The only T-800 resp. T-850 we've seen in all four movies was the model 101 - the one that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Marcus Wright wasn't a standard terminator of a specific series; instead, Skynet called him a one-of-a-kind "infiltration machine".
Another problem I had centered around John Connor’s inability to remember that two previous T-800 Terminators had saved his life in the past. Instead, the only thing remembered from his first meeting with Marcus Wright was that the latter reminded him of the cyborg who tried to kill his mother, Sarah, in 1984.
I didn't see it like that.
Connor was told by the T-850 model 101 in Terminator 3 that it had/would kill him in 2032. After Judgment Day, he knew that any further T-800s he met would be trying to kill him; after all, they wouldn't be reprogrammed (yet).
Furthermore, I didn't get the impression that Marcus Wright specifically reminded Connor of the T-800, but rather, that Connor saw Wright as the personification of Skynet, his mortal enemy, and addressed him just as he would have addressed Skynet itself.
Aside from these two points, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Admittedly, I thought that Christian Bale delivered - for him - a solid, but average performance (which, compared to other actors, was really good), whereas Sam Worthington was truly outstanding as Marcus Wright, but their best scenes were undoubtedly the ones they were in together.
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