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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.
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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.
Neo died at the end of the third movie, so that one is not surprising. As far as killing off Morpheus goes, I think it is a great idea. If they had maintained the status quo, it would have just been The Matrix Revolutions Continues. This insures that it will stay somewhat fresh and start its OWN STORYLINE
Part of the original plan for TMO was to keep the story going with actors and writers moving the overhead of the game. I hope this works.
Although I don't play this game (or any other MMOs for that matter) I have a feeling that Morpheus will be back.
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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.
Now, take the death of Aeris in FF7. That's a way to kill a char that gets everyones blood boiling.
I remember reading in the 'Star Trek:TNG' Compendium that each time the writers wanted to do a major shakeup of the status quo, they were rebuffed by the corporate types who were afraid that to shake things up too much would result in having to send their children to in-state colleges versus Harvard or Yale or ASU.
It is refreshing to see that the Washchsocoicococki Brothers were willing to do something dramatic for story's sake instead of just keeping things like they were in the movie.
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.
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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)
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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?
Funny how you cited Obi Wan as a comparison, even though I he dies within the first half of the first movie of the original trilogy.
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Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the company in any way, I have no insider information, and since I'm a Slackware guy, I can't even play the game. Therefore, this is ONLY a wild-ass guess.
I've looked over their website, I've read the news they put up about the assassination, and I have a theory (which seems kind of obvious to me).
They say the assassin can tinker with the matrix like Neo used to (although they didn't make that comparison, which I found telling).
The machines have not released Neo's body.
Morpheus was trying to pressure them to release Neo's body by blowing stuff up, or otherwise causing all kinds of problems.
An assassin with a porcelain mask pops out of a small vent and kills Morpheus. This directly benefits the machines (and by extension everybody else).
Conclusion:
The assassin is either Neo himself brought back to life, or a clone of Neo with updates.
If it's Neo, maybe he's missing some of his memories and believes he's acting in the greater good.
If it's a clone, maybe it's the first in a new line of unstoppable agents based on Neo.
OR, it could be Neo brought back to life but still infected with some part of Smith, thus completely bonkers and a new enemy in the game?
Just a theory...
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
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.
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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
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.
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