9 PAGES?! HAVE YOU PEOPLE NO MERCY!!I'de really like someone to respond to my giganto-post cause it would suck if everyone was simply tired of discussing this stuff and I just read 9 pages for nothing. Also,
please forgive the multiple spelling errors which are bound to occur in post this size. I am not a very good speller when I'm typing fast, but as long as you get the point of what I'm tring to say... A list of my general beef with the Matrix logic: -If you know that the Matrix isn't real, then nothing can harm you. If you get shot, you just have to realize its not real, and they won't harm you.
-If you know the laws of gravity etc aren't real, then if you can move at speed X while living the illusion, and at speed 3X while unplugged, then why not at speed 100X or 1000X or at infinite speed. If you know the laws of physics are just an illusion, then you can totally ignore them, not just bend them slightly. Or if you like, you can bend them
, so you move at speeds which no agent will be able to match.
-Why is Neo special? What he is able to do, he does as a result of the realisation that he can do whatever he wants in the Matrix. Wouldn't it be logical that EVERYONE else who has been unplugged has come to this same realisation? I would think that everyone would be able to be like Neo inside the Matrix and then some.
-If you simply unplugged everyone from the Matrix, then like 99.99% of people would die from starvarion, exposure or just from drowning in that big lake (or whatever) into which you get ejected. You can't very well just release 6 billions (maybe more) people out into the world, with no food, no shelter and no nothing. However, the machines would be able to survive to some degree and would most likely be able to wipe ou the rest of humanity. Simple freeing everyone insde the Matrix is not the way to win the war. Well it is, but it would also wipe out the vast majority of the human race, and the machines would mop up what was left.
OK here are my thoughts on Revolutions, in no particular order:- I really don't have much of an opinion yet, becuase I don't understand just what the hell happened. Once I do, I'll be more fit to judge. On the surface, it seemed like an action movie with continuity thrown to the wind.
However, I think that it all fits in once you figure it out, and once you do (or someone else does, and explains it) you'll just go "Ahh, holy ****, it all makes sense, that was indeed and awesome movie"- What happened in the end? I don't think the machines decided to just let everyone go who wanted to go. I think maybe the Oracle was reffering to programs, not humans.
-The war is over? No its not. The machines just stopped their attack on Zion. They still know where it is, they can still take it out. They still have the Matrix around. Humanity is still enslaved. The war isn't over.The only thing that has changed, is that THIS time, Zion was left in a slightly better chape that before (aka destroyed), and also the people in Zion didn't die to they have knowledge of what came before so it not all one big circle.
-Smith being able to go over into the real world seems very plausible. After all, in order for the Matrix to function, the human mind must be able to both upload and download info to the Machine Processor (the Matrix engine or whatever) and vice versa. If you're infected inside the Matrix, Smith's brain patterns (which are obviously as suffisticated as human, since the AI programs have almost all the movement/recognition/thinking capabilities of humans) are simply "written" into you brain (you physical brain)
-The Merovingian wants the eyes of the Oracle so that he can see into the future. When Smith assimilated the Oracle, you could see that when he looked around he had this amazed look on hs face, lke he saw everything in a new light. This is why he laughed (I actualy quite likd that part, it makes sense in the context) becuase he realized he had this cool new power.
-The Sentinels were flying around in big waves cause their job was to draw fire away from the diggers, until they breached the walls, and then they would really start attacking. So until the walls were breached, the Sentinels were useless so they were just decoys.
-If you can mount EMPs on ships, why not on buildings. They could easily have like 10-100 EMPS inside Zion, and they only needed 2 actually. One would be to take out the first wave, and then another to take out the second wave. It makes
of sense for Zion to have a ton of EMP defences.
-One part that I don't understand is how Neo can control machines in the real world. One theory tha would explain this is if there were multiple Matrix layers, but this isn't the case. Even though he has machine code (or whatever) in his mind, his body is still human. And as far as I know, the human body is not capable of transimitting any signal at all, much less one that could distrupt a machine.
-The Neo-blindfold was nicely done, and it seemed to me that this was obviously a nod to some anime. You also had similar blindfolds in Last Flight of the Osiris.
-I have NO idea what happened at the end there. Was the Matrix just reset? I don' think it was.
-Neo didn't sacrifice himself, he was defeated. Or maybe, he let himself be defeated, becuase he knew the only way to kill Smith was to let himself be absorbed. Dont know.
-The choice that the Oracle was reffering to (her choice, the one she had to make), it might the following: let Neo sacrifice himself and really achieve nothing in the end, or set him on the path that would result in him doing what every other The One has done before and just continue the circle. It was probably not too late to get on that path, and she did mention that it was harder to make a choice knowing full well the consequences, which would imply that she had made that choice before, which would imply that the previous The Ones had come to the point where it was up to the Oracle, which means that they all took the "Save Trinity" door and not the "Save Humanity" door. Which leads to my next point:
-How do we know that our Neo was different than all the previous ones by choosing the "Save Trinity" door. I don't remember the Architect ever saying which door they choose, just implying it. Or even if he did say it, he might have been lying. He is a machine afterall, and wants to work for the benefit f the machines. So "nudging" Neo towards the "Save Trinity" door would be his way of doing what was best for machine-kind, since we know that it turned out well for the machines in the end. I wonder what would have happened if Neo saw through the facade and chose the "Save Humanity" door, which might have actually been better for humanity and not worse, as the Architect implyed. The Architect also mentione that Neo was the first to manifest love, so the "Save Trinity" door might have been somthing esle for the previous The Ones (such as Save Oracle or Save Morpheus) becuase the Archtect mentioned that Neo was the first to manifest the emotion of love, but that all the previous ones had manifested some other emotion (I can remember the exact line) which might have persuaded the to not choose the "Save Humanity" door out of some emotion such as duty, honour or whatever.
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Ok, its almost 2am and I need to take a whizz. I'de kind like to know what other people think of the little logical puzzles and whatnot.
