T2 may have had more story than T3. It's difficult to judge. In T3 the terminatrix was looking for JC's generals, and just happened to come across JC in the process. Then there was the whole thing with KB's dad overseeing the skynet project, and the virus that actually was skynet! And finally the impossible attempt to try and destroy skynet.
If anything, I think T2 took the whole story off course. Princess Ivy made a good point here...
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t1 ended the film, with the photograph, it once again established the time continum that sent the terminator back in the first place. 2 just threw the time thing into a wierd paralell universe: ie if sarah connors had stopped the terminator being built and really started on a new road, there would have been no need for 3 (which i think can be convincingly argued in any case), also reese wouldn't have been sent back and john would never have been born, in which case the machines would have risen etc... (headache time)
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The original story was never to stop Judgment Day. It was to save John Conner from death, and that is basically the whole story in its simplest form. Trying to stop Judgment Day in T2 only sets the story on an impossible course. John Connor was born because Judgment Day happened. That is why T3 had to be made after T2. John Connor couldn't exist if Judgment Day was stopped in T2
Cause and effect, action/reaction and all that jazz. This story can only make sense if Judgment Day is carried out to a decisive ending, and I think whoever wrote T3 understood that.