• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The batteries analogy in the Matrix was bad and originally it was that the machines used humans as bio-computers, which makes a lot more sense.

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      3 days ago

      I’m aware, that’s my Fandom, I know the lore intimately.

      Being a “battery” is in the vernacular though, and most understand what a capital battery means.

      I even see the Architects nod to the supposed answer requiring a “lesser mind” albeit a more human curious mind in the oracle was a nod to that original idea the studio mandated the Wachowskis change, from bioprocessors to batteries. Would have worked on so many levels, even with the machines falling victim to repetition loop breakdowns without processing from imperfect minds, but that was on the Studio, the writers were vocal they didn’t like the change, which makes it easy for me to look beyond.