Comment on The Matrix
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 week agoTheir desire to preserve humanity is only touched on in The Animatrix and supplementary materials. It doesn’t even agree well with the primary film trilogy, where they clearly risk “the end of your species” repeatedly, and even in the best case scenario reduce humanity to 24 individuals, which is well below the minimum threshold for a viable gene pool.
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I mean it’s been a while since I’ve seen the films but I was under the impression that the whole “end of your species” thing was the last resort after they had tried repeatedly to avoid it. I could very easily be wrong but that was the impression I had gotten even from the films.
That every effort to preserve humanity had been tried prior to this but humanity keeps trying to exterminate the machines. Multiple attempts at containment and refining the matrix as a prison to keep them from destroying the machines and possibly themselves in the process. But that they had reached a point where it was clear that no matter what the machines did humanity would never stop seeking their complete annihilation.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In the broad strokes yes but if preservation really mattered that much to them, they would have adjusted their plan in so many ways. Is it really an existential threat to leave 500 people instead of 24? Do they really need to threaten The One with total extinction to get him to choose to participate in the matrix? That really makes it seem like the matrix is a higher priority to them than human survival: the matrix or nothing.