Posted by GTJDorris at nat-gateway-1.top.biltmorecommunications.net on November 08, 2003 at 18:10:18:
In Reply to: do you understand that it's a movie? posted by MasterdeBater774 on November 08, 2003 at 16:06:59:
: It shows you don't understand Reloaded. Neo is the one because he is an unbalanced equation that the Architect said he couldn't fix despite his many times in trying. Then in Revolutions the Oracle said that Smith was Neo's negative to try to balance that equation out... when Neo let Smith take him over the equation was balanced... 1 + -1 = 0, it's really not that hard to figure out. Watch reloaded and listen to the dialogue instead of bitching about it.
Of all you said, this is the most non-sensical. If they are counterparts that's fucking fabulous in a philosophical sense. I get that. I promise I really do. I'm actually quite a fan of Taoism as well as a few other eastern religions. But religion/philosophy/etc. isn't the problem. The problem is they created a fantastic "what if" world where people are connected to a giant computer program called The Matrix and if you know how to manipulate code, then you can make amazing things happen. They are trying to base everything in this concept and everything that happens therefore has to apply to the rules of a computer operating system controlling a phoney environment. That being said, a human controller and a program interacting cannot "fuse" together. It doesn't work. And secondly, if a human were to connect with a program there wouldn't be immediate explosions. This isn't a chemical reaction we're watching. It's someone banging away on a keyboard (instead in this world you can do it with your mind) to make things happen. But wait, instead of trying to explain what happened, and how something like this could happen, they just show reactions and don't explain how. That's weak writing, that's bad storytelling and ignores all of their previous pronounciations on the way things have to happen in this future existence.
The problem I have is with people that don't realize these problems and say "okay that's fine....but I still liked it." If you could say that to me, then it would be okay. But someone that wanted to like it so much that they ignore what they've seen and when something's black they say "not its not, its white. There's something wrong with YOU if you think it's black." That troubles me.