It's simple math people...the oracle told NEO that smith was his EXACT opposite. When you're dealing with numbers, opposite numbers cancel themselves out. So, by letting smith take over himself, neo "cancelled" out smith, which is what destroyed him. I don't know WTF anyone is talking about "machines working through neo." Did you miss the entire speech in reloaded about the mathematics of it all? Definitley made me giggle though.
I liked it, the special effects were pretty damn good. The last fight scene gives a good idea of what the superman movie is going to be like.
The only thing I would have liked to see is what's going ot happen with this "peace." The architect said everyone still plugged into the matrix will be freed. Alright...so, where are the machines going to get all their power from now?
Originally posted by mavrock:
Originally posted by BP:
Originally posted by dubkatz:
The machine didnt work thru neo....
The machines did work through neo. That was part of the deal to stop the war, which is why he went to the machine world. Smith was getting too strong for anyone to control so made a deal that would allow himself to be used as a conduit for the machines to destroy smith, while sacrificing himself in order to help the machines and save zion. That's why when smith assimilated neo at the end, he said 'it's a trick' and then the machine that neo was 'plugged' into sent the virus or whatever it was through neo in order to infect and destroy all the smiths.
If you go back to what the Oracle said, it makes more sense: she told Neo that Smith was his negative opposite, and that the Architect's job was to keep the equation balanced. Neo and Smith together balanced the equation, so when Smith assimilated Neo, the equation was unbalanced, allowing the Matrix to re-balance itself by destroying Smith.
