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Did the cycle just start over again?
Someone's gonna have to refresh my memory on this, but I think this is how it went down in part 2. Spoilerized 'cause it's only six months old 
After bringing the One, an inevitable creation due to a mathematical anomaly in the Matrix, into a specific place at a specific time, the machines tried to force him into a choice. Either he could work with them and let Zion be destroyed, but allow a handful of humans to survive and rebuild, OR he could keep doing what, resulting in the obliteration of the species. IIRC, Neo shot out of the building as it was blown to hell, suggesting that he did neither Anyway, in part 3 here, instead for working for one side or the other, he's working to preserve both their existences, thus skirting around the loaded choices the Architect gave him.
As for the reduced power that freeing people from the Matrix might entail, I don't think the machines mind. After all, without a war to wage, the sentinels and warbots and stuff are largely irrelevant (unless of course they have individuallity as well, and as such might not be shut down). Besides, I'd think a good number of people would find such a massive shift of reality hard to deal with, and want to stay. Hell, I know I would.
My question is though, why not just harness the lightning storms? After all, if they can handle fusion, surely a few telescoping lightning rods wouldn't be THAT difficult to gather power from.
LOOK, if they've read this far, no point in using the tag 
Its getting pretty annoying.
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This is how I understodd the Smith/Neo dying thing: Neo is hooked up to the machines: enters the matrix. smith and him fight, smith makes neo another smith. since neo fails to beat smith in the matrix, the machine killed him, thus killing smith? (as deth said, negating the equation)
No, you left out the whole Christ thing.
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Bajah spewed forth this undeniable truth:
3 pages with the spoiler warning in the title and people are STILL using the spoiler tag.LOOK, if they've read this far, no point in using the tag
Is hitting Ctrl + A really that hard?
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Sakkra thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
My question is though, why not just harness the lightning storms? After all, if they can handle fusion, surely a few telescoping lightning rods wouldn't be THAT difficult to gather power from.
Or why they didn't have some sort of orbiting power station thingie, or geo thermal, or tidal are the bazillion other alternate energy sources they could have used.
As for the ending of the war thingie, it could be that a lot of humans might voluntarily reenter the matrix, think about in reloaded when they showed them first getting into Zion, the dock controllers were all plugged into a matrix like world to control the docks. Now with the peace you might get humans do jobs and such the same way.
It mentions somewhere that you're fighting 'for the survival of man and machine alike'...hmm...
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That'd be cool.
The skynet universe humans want to blow the machines up
The matric universe people want to free the humans and power down the machines
Eh?
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Bajah's fortune cookie read:
I kept waiting for Neo to mention his Power Level.
I'm just glad he died because I HATE in movies when the good guy is getting completely destroyed, and then he suddenly gets that amazing burst of speed and strength that wasn't there 5 minutes ago and then destroys the badguy with ease.
It does not, however, excuse the fact that for the purpose behind the trilogy, the implementation sucked ass.
Here's the deal with movies, for me:
I don't go looking for deeper insight into the workings of humanity. I don't go looking for spiritual creaminess. I don't go looking to have an epiphany. As lovely as movies are, two hours (or even six hours, for a trilogy) is not enough to convey a deep enough meaning to adequately explore in depth a wildly different point of view. For that, I would read what we in the old days called a "Book". And these books would explore the idea in far more depth than a movie could, and would be much more satisfying for such purposes.
Movies are meant to be dramatization. The best ones are the ones that understand the limitations of a movie and can be editted into a form where the message is still coherently communicated, while at the same time maintaining the necessity for dramatization. If you try to mix too much dramatization with an overload of hard-to-obtain, difficult-to-translate-into-common-terms "Meanings" and "Insights" you end up with something incoherent, and frankly rather annoying.
I think the Wachowskis are probably fantastic storytellers (if the guy I mentioned above was right), but I think they would have been better off writing a series (possibly for HBO, which likes to encourage offbeat and unusual series), or even better yet, an in-depth novel. They're at best only mediocre movie makers, and their trilogy suffers for it.
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Naimah had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Could you post that analysis? I was unable to hunt it down on fark.com.
Corporate Mofo's Guide to Matrix Revolutions
Has a link to his guide to Reloaded in there too.
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ACES! Another post by Bajah:
OMG IT'S GYD.
OMG read my thread.
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Gydfather stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
OMG read my thread.
OMG I did.
Just got back from lunch and started at the first thread I saw.
