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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2707982" data-attributes="member: 149">I seriously doubt that the machines were pushed back or even significantly inconvenienced by any of the other cycles. The number of sentinels and the scale of the machine cities shown in the third movie make it pretty clear that wiping out the free humans was simply a matter of chosing to do so.&nbsp;Well, if I understand what they were telling us, &quot;The One&quot; arising indicates that the matrix is reaching a crisis point and will have to be rebooted. There was a lot of vague talk about The One being an attempt to balance the equation and some other double talk that didn't make a great deal of sense. Though they made it clear that the free humans were wiped out when The One arose, however they didn't really make it clear why. Presumably, they had developed enough to be an annoyance to the machines or alternatively, the machines would have to accept a &quot;lower level of existence&quot; until the &quot;Crops&quot; had recovered to a sufficient level (assuming that &quot;rebooting&quot; the matrix involves creating new &quot;crops&quot;) and didn't want &quot;free range&quot; humans causing trouble&nbsp; during that time.Smith becoming what he did is quite clearly linked to what Neo did to him. No argument there. However his initial destruction seemed like a logical extension of Neo finally awakening to being The One. What Neo did to him was essentially what the agents did to people they &quot;posessed&quot;.The big brawl with Neo and Smith in the second movie had already happened when they went to the Merovingian for the first time. So Smith had already infected a substantial number of people/programs/agents. The Merovingian seemed very much plugged into the &quot;program&quot; underground since he seemed to know all about the oracle and was holding the Keymaker. Also he clearly mentioned being around for several cycles. So it seems odd that he would have no idea about Smith's existance or the threat he posed. I don't think he showed any awareness about Smith when he showed up in the 3rd movie either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 2707982, member: 149"] I seriously doubt that the machines were pushed back or even significantly inconvenienced by any of the other cycles. The number of sentinels and the scale of the machine cities shown in the third movie make it pretty clear that wiping out the free humans was simply a matter of chosing to do so. Well, if I understand what they were telling us, "The One" arising indicates that the matrix is reaching a crisis point and will have to be rebooted. There was a lot of vague talk about The One being an attempt to balance the equation and some other double talk that didn't make a great deal of sense. Though they made it clear that the free humans were wiped out when The One arose, however they didn't really make it clear why. Presumably, they had developed enough to be an annoyance to the machines or alternatively, the machines would have to accept a "lower level of existence" until the "Crops" had recovered to a sufficient level (assuming that "rebooting" the matrix involves creating new "crops") and didn't want "free range" humans causing trouble during that time. Smith becoming what he did is quite clearly linked to what Neo did to him. No argument there. However his initial destruction seemed like a logical extension of Neo finally awakening to being The One. What Neo did to him was essentially what the agents did to people they "posessed". The big brawl with Neo and Smith in the second movie had already happened when they went to the Merovingian for the first time. So Smith had already infected a substantial number of people/programs/agents. The Merovingian seemed very much plugged into the "program" underground since he seemed to know all about the oracle and was holding the Keymaker. Also he clearly mentioned being around for several cycles. So it seems odd that he would have no idea about Smith's existance or the threat he posed. I don't think he showed any awareness about Smith when he showed up in the 3rd movie either. [/QUOTE]

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