Originally posted by Kes
For 1 you have the hammer and neo's encouter with the agent.For 2 The architect himself says the one is a necessaty. and that if he choses to save trinity the matrix would crash and everybody would die.
For 3 the one is a glitch that keeps occuring and will occur again. not real a prediction but a fact. so no gods.
In the 2 Matrix theory "the One" IS a necessity. He is needed to keep the Zion illusion real. As long as he's around the humans believe that they are truly free and that one day they will win the war! The key to the deception is that Neo doesn't (or didn't) know that he was just another pawn! However, to believe in the reality of Zion is to believe that the machines are suckers for pain,...like I said previously!
The "glitch" is choice. The one is the eventuality of the glitch. The final piece in a system of control that was set up primarily because of the glitch. The first Matrix failed because of the glitch, at least so says the Architect. So did the second Matrix even after being modelled aftter human history. The solution was to give the illusion of choice to humans thereby controlling them. The One is the key to the control. Everytime he reinserts the prime code it takes into account those choices and eventualities that caused the system to have problems.
As to Neo's ancounter with Smith it still brings us back to believing that somehow Neo can Mentally control programs without being connected in a physical way to the system. If that's not "X-men" I don't know what is.
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