> -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:11 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: The Most Cheesy Movie > > I thought the Architect was pretty cheesy. I had hoped for something > more like the MCP from Tron.
I loved all the films - I thought they were very nicely consistent with one another. I liked that the machines had emotions and desires. Too many concepts start out with the idea of the "unfeeling machines" which eventually come to feel. In this case machines are able to feel just fine: but they have a subtly different viewpoint (I actually liked the whole "love is a word" scene from this perspective). They never did get into the duality of the "program mind" vrs the "machine body". The architect was obviously a program - not the "head" program, but an important one (he headed the creation the Matrix). It's not made clear whether programs can take machine bodies or not (or perhaps can, but feel constrained or have some other social taboo about it). The "Source" (the spiky-baby-thingie) was clearly a physical machine. But was that "it" or was that machine simply a physical aspect of another program? In any case there is definitely a clear distinction between the Matrix and the real world. But I also like the fact that both parties (the machines and the free humans) seen to value both worlds (in their own ways). This makes the motivations available to both sides much more complex than most sci-fi. I've not followed the rest of the material available very closely (although I'm still tempted to try out the MMORPG since Paul Chadwick is writing it) so I'm not sure if that's been sorted or not. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:160775 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
