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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Welverin" data-source="post: 2708793" data-attributes="member: 433">The two most important conversations in the series for understanding what really was going on are Neo's conversations with the Architect in Reloaded (ch29-31, or check the attached file) and the one with the Oracle in Revolutions (ch7). I'd suggest watching both again, and paying close attention to what is done, turning on the subtitles might be a good idea.The Architect reveals what is really going on, The One is nothing but a patch designed to prevent a cataclysmic systems crash (i.e. the more free/aware humans the bigger the problem), the prophecy of the One and the timeline as told to Neo in the first movie were part of the deception to keep the cycle going.The real purpose of the One, of which there were five previous to the Neo we know, is to reset the Matrix and select twenty-one people from within the Matrix to repopulate Zion, which is destroyed every time, no matter what. The change in the cycle depicted in the movies is Neo’s love for humanity being focused on one person, Trinity, which forces him to find a different solution to the problem. The point at which the current iteration of the Matrix diverges from the previous ones, is when Neo chooses to walk through the door to his left to save Trinity instead of the one to his right and the source (remember: in the Matrix the left choice always leads to enlightenment, and the right choice leads to stagnation!).Now, in Revolutions the Oracle tells Neo what Smith is, his opposite/ negative (The Negative One as I like to think of him), and thus gives a hint as to what needs to be done. Shortly after this talk Smith shows up and refers to the Oracle as mom, an indication that she created him, which fits nicely with her plan to break the cycle, end the war and bring real peace to the world.Oh, they are. The entire prophecy is a lie created by the machines as a form of control to keep humanity under control.They can, and they do regularly. Every time The One pops up, which I believe is Neo every time, Zion, and everyone in it, is destroyed.Neo and Trinity weren’t part of the deal, and the people pick to resettle Zion would have been people who hadn’t been awakened. Remember the Myth as recounted by Morpheus in The Matrix start with a man who woke from the Matrix on his own, makes it rather easy to keep the previous events a secret from the humans.</blockquote>

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