I thought the big puffer-fish thing was aptly named (Deus Ex Machina),
as that is precisely its function in the movie.

Without the "machine of the Gods" Neo was SOL for getting back into the
Matrix to destroy Smith.

will

Haggerty, Mike wrote:

> I thought the city itself was the source, and the face was just its
> spokespiece.
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Matrix Revolutions (Spoilers)
>
> If they had presented The Source as something other than a place that he
> actually reached (machine city), then I would agree with you. But we
> specifically saw him go to machine city and talk to The Source.
> Sometimes in
> stories the journey is the important part, but here there was a tangible
> destination that he did have to reach.
>
> I like your concept of the source though, and I think it's why the first
> movie worked. But I don't think that's what was presented in the second
> two
> movies. The first movie kept it simple, and the source code that Neo saw
> was
> all that mattered. IMO, the Architect and fleshing out of the Oracle and
> such only lead to contradictions.
>
> -Kevin (frustrated)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:11 PM
> Subject: RE: Matrix Revolutions (Spoilers)
>
> > Neo was journeying to *find* the source.
> >
> > Not necessarily *to* the source as though the source was some place.
> >
> > -Gel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Sorry Angel, but I don't think that's right. I get what you're saying
> > and it
> > would make sense except that if that was the case then there wouldn't
> > have
> > been the whole need to journey to the source in Reloaded and then to
> the
> > machine city in Revolutions.
> >
> > So as I see it, we have the following choices:
> >
> > a.) The green "source code" that we see is not The Source.
> > b.) The green "source code" that we see _IS_ The Source and most of
> the
> > driving plots of movies 2 and 3 are bunk.
> > c.) The Wachowskis were smoking something and didn't share.
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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