Although he knew Viper was evil, he thought: "She""s a means to an end - an end your grandfather wanted.The studio heavily promoted the film, but kept it a tight secret that the film contained a Christmas-oriented setting.I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved.It was about redemption.It was his fate." Miss Tate was awakened from deep thought about he response when the bell rang.At the end of class, John""s mother surprised him by permitting him to attend the camping trip, although he had already decided to remain behind with his friends for their planned Halloween party.[The predicted nuclear holocaust of Judgment Day had not occurred as predicted in August of 1997.] It opened with the voice-over of Los Angeles transient worker and 20-something, post-apocalyptic leader of worldwide resistance, John Connor (Nick Stahl), who was talking about the prophesied war against the machines, while living "off the grid":The future has not been written.I shouldn""t be here at all.I don""t feel offended.Katczinsky (joking): It don""t apply to tramps like you.Tjaden: Good.Then I can be going home right away...The Kaiser and me...Me and the Kaiser felt just alike about this war.We didn""t neither of us want any war, so I""m going home.He""s there already.Soldier: Somebody must have wanted it.Maybe it was the English.No, I don""t want to shoot any Englishman.I never saw one ""til I came up here.And I suppose most of them never saw a German ""til hey came up here.No, I""m sure they weren""t asked about it.Another Soldier: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.Tjaden: Not me and the Kaiser.Soldier: I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.Tjaden: You leave us out of this.Katczinsky: I don""t see that.The Kaiser""s got everything he needs.Soldier: Well, he never had a war before.Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous.Why, that""s history.Paul: Yeah, Generals too.They need war.A Third Soldier: And manufacturers.They get rich.One of the soldiers compares war to a "fever": "Nobody wants it in particular.And then all at once, here it is.We didn""t want it.The English didn""t want it.And here we are fighting." Katczinsky explains how wars should really be fought:I""ll tell ya how it should all be done.Whenever here""s a big war comin"" on, you should rope off a big field (and sell tickets).Yeah, and, and, on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put them in he center dressed in their underpants and let ""em fight it out with clubs.