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Morpheus is Dead
MTV Games is reporting that the latest live event in the Matrix Online has permenantly changed the topology of The Matrix: Morpheus is dead. From the article: "Morpheus' demise was not without controversy. In the days leading up to it, the developers' live team, who orchestrate the game's big monthly story-advancing moments, carried out a Wachowski-Chadwick plot that had Morpheus, in the words of some users, 'turning terrorist.' According to storyline, Morpheus wanted to reclaim the body of the fallen Neo, which was being held by the Matrix's machine overlords. Morpheus tried to pressure cooperation by planting bombs throughout the Matrix infrastructure."
Having just woken from a nap, that was all very confusing. I kept thinking, "They're making another movie?!". I should just go back to sleep.
Pretty Pictures!
just be sure to listen for your mother when she calls you down for dinner.
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When I read the headline, I went "Duh. Morpheus died because Lyta Hall swore vengeance upon him after the Maiden-Mother-Crone Triple Goddess led her to believe that he took her son Daniel away from her. And after Morpheus's death, the dream-child Daniel transformed into the new manifestation of the Dream King."
And then I realized it was about the Matrix.
Is the crappy P2P service dead too?
Contractual difficulties? Wouldn't be the first time a character got killed off because of it.
Ding dong Morpheus is dead...
nah, doesn't really flow right.
How could you play with fire like that? We loved you and now you're gone. Zion needed your guidance. Why couldn't you accept the truth about Neo? Neo wasn't a holy being, he and you were just pawns of the machines. Now you've martered yourself for a cause that wasn't worth fighting. The peace brought new hope for the matrix. Instead of being a place of oppression it could have been a place of beauty and eternal life. Bluepills could be taught the truth and continue their lives without ever having to jack out. But now Zion is divided. Those who seek revenge for your death will destroy the peace, the matrix will fall, and every bluepill will die.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Can't we just dig up the old "They killed Chewbacca in a book" debate, replace the word "Chewbacca" with "Morpheus" and pretend we've already discussed this in all of its glorious nerdy detail?
You are suffering from a common misconception here: There was neither a second nor a third movie. "The Matrix" is the only film ever made and ends with Neo realizing he is The One. Any further additions to this story line would have been pure crap, suffering from lack of vision, no imagination, bad execusion, bad dialog, logic holes large enough to hide Zion in, and therefore were never made. You might be under the impression that you were in a movie theatre and saw two further firms, but this is a figment of your imagination. Hell is populated by lots of half-naked women in rubber and leather fetish clothing? Sure. In your dreams (well, possibly in mine, too, but that's a different story).
Neo is the savior, Trinity is alive, and Mr. Smith is dead. This is the truth and the whole truth. Believing anything else would just support sensless greed on the part of Holywood film managers and ruin something that was beautiful.
Of course the big hole in the theory is that a porcelain mask is far too expressive for its wearer to be Keanu Reeves. Ba-zing.
I'd just love to be Mr. Ruin-a-movie, but as anyone who has had the misfortune to sit through Revolutions knows, we've all been well and truly beaten to that title by Andy and Larry.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Where I come from it's called the Highlander principle:
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There can be only one, because all the others were shit