Okay, there's been lots of dsicussion about the photo and Kyle's intentions with Sarah. Let me add my two cents here.
Regardless of McG's bull???? take on everything Cameron set up, what really happened according to Kyle in T1 is this:
At some point in the future John finds Kyle. I don't like McG's version of those events, but we're past that. As for the picture, it should have been given to Kyle after Kyle has known John for a while and proven to John that he is a reliable soldier. John already knows he will be, but Kyle will have to discover that for himself, otherwise he'd never believe John would okay him for the most important mission of all 'time' (like the pun there?).
Kyle is under the command of Perry, not John, so John and Kyle could become pretty close friends, and if I were John, I'd probably make sure that happened, after all Kyle is daddy even though the roles are somewhat reversed.
During the course of their friendship, John would most definitely talk about how great his mother was. "I volunteered. It was a chance to meet the legend," Kyle said. At some point in John's story telling of how awesome his mother was he would have shown Kyle the picture. Kyle would have revered Sarah by that point, and John would have handed the picture over with some kind of line like, "She always brought me luck. Why don't you hang onto that. Keep it." Having no romantic contact with any woman before, Kyle would start to feel something for her after staring at her picture so much, but would have kept that a very guarded secret. Kyle told Sarah how he memorized every detail of her face, not because of the mission he didn't even know about until he volunteered for it, but because she was the one who made the man, John, he admired most in life. "I would die for John Connor," Kyle said. And to Kyle, women were good fighters. John would have respected Sarah, even '84 Sarah, knowing what John had told him about her.
As for being a mother????er, Kyle did confess to his feelings for Sarah, but he also felt it was somehow a betrayal of John's trust as well, not knowing that John knew it before Kyle even existed. And he would have felt it complicated the mission. "I shouldn't have said that" would have been the end of it if Sarah hadn't fallen in love with this hero that came across time to save her. He practically worshipped her, certainly enough to die for her as well, and who better to give herself, the most valuable reward she had to offer, to than a man of that character.
Did either of them know Kyle would be John's father that night? No way. It was a moment of pure love and passion. Kyle died never knowing, and so he should. "John never said much about him (John's father). I know he dies before the war." That's it. And I'm sure Sarah discovering she was pregnant came as quite a shock, but also an amazing final gift. Kyle's life would live on through her in John.
"You were young like you are now, but also a little sad. I always wondered what you were thinking at that moment," Kyle told Sarah, never knowing that the whole time he stared at that picture, the legendary woman in that photo was thinking of how much she loved him.
???? McG and that stupid leaving the picture in the pocket bull????. McG is an ass.