- Joined
- Jan 15, 2019
The worst thing about that is there were hints of this with Agent Smith in the first film in the scene when he "unplugs" briefly from his fellow agents when they've got Morpheus chained up in some random office building for interrogation, and he begins a decidedly non-mechanical monologue about how much he hates the Matrix and the "stench" of human beings. He clearly wants to be anywhere but in the Matrix. That's an emerging sense of self-determination and envy right there -- obviously he's jealous of humanity's collective capacity to feel freedom even when trapped inside the Matrix and he wants to go explore that on his own in the real world.It even lets them add in some kind of subplot about the machines/agents being envious of humanity.
So much wasted potential. I really hate that they went with the "self-replicating virus" concept for Smith in the sequels. I was fine with him being "respawned" (since there's no reason they couldn't just make a fresh copy of him inside the Matrix) after being destroyed in the first film, but it was so shitty that all he did in the sequels was make clones of himself, say menacing things and punch Neo a lot.