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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2707537" data-attributes="member: 149">Well we know there have been other &quot;The One&quot;s and that they re-founded Zion or at least that's what the Architect told Neo. He could well be lying. I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;Attacked the Core, shut down the machines&quot;. The Machine civilization had obviously survived what happened in the past. I'm not sure your speculation explains Smith, since his &quot;creation&quot; predates Neo's choice at the Core. Also his destruction seems intimately tied into the creation of &quot;The One&quot;, which would tend to indicate that something similar should have happened before. But I'm also not entirely clear on what your theory is. Neo certainly wasn't trying to free Smith. However, both Smith and Neo certainly seemed to be aware of the Matrix as a system that could be manipulated rather than as a reality which has fixed laws, which seems to be the case for others.&nbsp; The end of Revolutions had a substantial amount of overt Christ imagery and thus there was a definite &quot;Dying to redeem Mankind&quot; element to what Neo did, especially in letting himself be &quot;killed&quot; by Smith to destroy him.Smith is probably the most puzzling element of the Matrix Story. The way the One was handled made sense, but Smith doesn't neatly slot into any explanations I can think of off hand. The Merovingian didn't seem to know anything about him for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 2707537, member: 149"] Well we know there have been other "The One"s and that they re-founded Zion or at least that's what the Architect told Neo. He could well be lying. I'm not sure what you mean by "Attacked the Core, shut down the machines". The Machine civilization had obviously survived what happened in the past. I'm not sure your speculation explains Smith, since his "creation" predates Neo's choice at the Core. Also his destruction seems intimately tied into the creation of "The One", which would tend to indicate that something similar should have happened before. But I'm also not entirely clear on what your theory is. Neo certainly wasn't trying to free Smith. However, both Smith and Neo certainly seemed to be aware of the Matrix as a system that could be manipulated rather than as a reality which has fixed laws, which seems to be the case for others. The end of Revolutions had a substantial amount of overt Christ imagery and thus there was a definite "Dying to redeem Mankind" element to what Neo did, especially in letting himself be "killed" by Smith to destroy him. Smith is probably the most puzzling element of the Matrix Story. The way the One was handled made sense, but Smith doesn't neatly slot into any explanations I can think of off hand. The Merovingian didn't seem to know anything about him for example. [/QUOTE]

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