Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Derwood
Who/what was the Architect and what was his/its purpose?
What happened with the previous iterations of Neo?
Will there be more iterations of Neo?
What controls the machines?
How does Neo have powers outside of the Matrix?
|
1. The architect was the human incarnation of the designer of the Matrix. He built the Matrix, and the architect is simply the human form of him that talks to Neo. That was explained in Reloaded during the architect talk.
2. What happened to them? They died, along with every other human survivor. People don't live forever. There have been 7 Matrices. The "One" has a choice to save 16 people from the Zion group to rebuild the human civilization under ground to start the process again. Neo was the first person to choose otherwise (hence the different outcome in Revolutions). The previous One's had chosen the 16-person path. Either way, every cycle of the human vs. machines battle kills off basically everyone in Zion. The previous One's died in battle to save the humans just like Neo did. Explained in Reloaded and Revolutions.
3. There shouldn't be any more One's after this point. Neo was the anomaly..he disrupted the Zion vs Machines cycle ending in a truce basically between the machines and the humans. This answers the question without addressing it...there's no more conflict between the freed humans and the machines so there's no need for another One. Answered in Revolutions.
4. It's said in the first, second, and third movie that the machines are a mass of AI that took over the world. They're self-aware machines. They all move as one being for one purpose: to live. They use the humans as batteries to live. Answered in all three movies.
5. The One is always tied to the source of the Matrix. That's almost an exact quote from Revolutions. The Matrix is "hosted" if you will in the machine city. Neo has the power to control the machines because they're constructed in a system that hosts the Matrix. If you can control the Matrix then you can control those attached to it (the machines in the real world). This is explained in Revolutions, but very briefly.
-Lasereth