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."

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[Red Moose]

Seeing as Morpheus is the father figure of the Matrix - the Obi Wan or the Professor X if you will - I'd say they've taken a big risk with this. Or at least they would have if it had much a future in the cinema.

WHat now? Neo dead? Morpheus dead? Surely this isn't just to reduce possible royalties, etc., ? Ghost and Niobe are good but not *lead character* good.

Good for you

[Safety Cap]

Matrix sucked after the first movie. #2 and #3 were filler.

All the spinoff games, anifootrix, toys and breakfast cereals (Kids! Eat a simple amino acid just like Neo!!) did was line Joel's (and Viacomm's) pockets with cash

Morpheus is dead? Boo-friggin-hoo. Maybe if the Bros had bothered to write a credible set of sequels, we could've cared.

Lack of Emotional Connection

[SillyHatsOnly]

A good start to a meaningful character death is to have the players actually care...surprise helps too. Seeing Morpheus got himself into enough trouble and relied on Neo getting him out, this was bound to happen sooner or later without the savior. Besides, yeah, he had a cool jacket, but there's just no emotional attachment...another shell lost.

Now, take the death of Aeris in FF7. That's a way to kill a char that gets everyones blood boiling.

Maybe

[antizeus]

I haven't noticed any Morpheus nodes connecting to mine lately, so it might be gone. Good riddance, too. I frequently got lots of false results from Morpheus (and Gnucleus) nodes. It seems that the morons who wrote it figured that matching a single word of a multiple word query was good enough. I actually modified my program to drop all results with a Morpheus (or Gnucleus) vendor string.

Off-Topic (but only slightly)

[RM6f9]

After the first movie, I wrote a fan letter.

After the second movie, I wanted to nominate the W brothers for a Nobel Prize.

After the (insert high-volume profanity here) ending of the third movie and series, I was glad I didn't know how to make the nomination happen - arguably the greatest story-telling/cinematic failure of our modern age.

After all of the above, does anyone really care what else they do?

(more meaningless grumbling of profanities follows)

Re:this is worse than Start Wars countless sequels

[ReverendLoki]

Not necessarily "settled", but rather have declared a truce of sort. For similar success stories, see also:
* Isreal and Palestine
* US and Iraq

Truce != Peace

mod points to burn

[kisrael]

Jeez. After reading all the griping about Matrix 2 and 3, and then all the kvetching about Ep.1 and 2 and even 3, which was really pretty decent though far from flawless...I gotta say, you geeks are the whiniest MFers on the face of the earth when it comes to your beloved franchises, just total nattering nabobs of negativity when it comes to flicks following the footsteps of truly monumental movies.

Every one of these films were worth my ten bucks if for the great special effects alone. Sure, none of them quite lived up to hopes for where the story could go, and some had non-trivial plot or goofiness or pacing issues, but DAMN you guys bitch bitch bitch! Compared to typical summer shlockbusters, every one of these sequels is frickin' ART.