RE: my analysis of the Matrix Reloaded [SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!]

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 23:03:53 MDT

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    It (the "stopping the sentinels" scene at the end) screamed out to me that
    they were
    either
    - still in the matrix (a different part, or different sim maybe; the effort
    to stop the robots seemed very taxing, and something happened to him in
    conjunction with that)
    or
    - the "outside world" including Zion, the ships, the sentinels, etc, is
    another nested level of simulation, and he's just noticed.

    It seems implausible that his ability to stop the robots was anything other
    than a consequence of that environment actually being software. It is quite
    possible that the "real world" has always been another simulation.

    Emlyn

    > Mike Lorrey said (quoting Ramez Naam)
    >
    > > 7) Neo was able to stop the robots at
    > the end because he's touched
    > > the source and is somehow still
    > connected to it. Exactly how isn't
    > > clear.
    > > Maybe all the humans have wireless
    > hardware. Maybe some friendly
    > > program like the Oracle had the
    > wireless hardware implanted in Neo's
    > > brain while he was still in the
    > Matrix. Maybe Neo is a genetic freak
    > > whose brain serves as a transmitter
    > and receiver. Don't know. But
    > > everything is consistent with him
    > using his connection to the
    > > software world to force the robots
    > themselves to self-destruct.
    >
    > Notice that he says "Wait, something is
    > different." This is the same
    > line he uses in the first movie when
    > they are in the building and were
    > betrayed by Mr. Reagan to Agent Smith,
    > when Neo notices the cat going
    > by twice... He notices that reality has
    > been looped after the
    > Nebuchadnezzar has been bombed and they
    > are fleeing the Sentinels.
    >
    > >
    > Rather than coming from Neo, Couldn't
    > the EMP that destroyed these sentinels
    > have come from Naobi's ship that showed
    > up to rescue them immediately after the
    > destructive EMP like event occurred?
    >
    > Brent Allsop



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