h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How about that no-one can get within a 100km of 01 (or is it Zero-1? It's the Machine City anyway!) yet they have quite a few ships with Matrix hacking material... where did that come from? And the whereabouts of Neo's orignal pod-thing if the Neber etc. reached it...

The 'fields' where the batteries (ie pods) are kept are shown to be some distance from the machine city itself (looks like that whole Zero-One/Zion thing was just a red herring, BTW).

And you don't need an American-built radio to be able to tune into and broadcast on the same radio wavelengths as American stations. (An analogy.)

Where did they get the equipment then?

And there were plenty of batteries from what I saw...

How are Zion/Zero-One (nice bit of binary there...) red herrings?

What equipment?

Look, the existence of Zion and the freeing of unsuitable minds from the Matrix is part of the Architect's plan. So the machines are going to leave convenient piles of equipment lying around for the humans to eventually use.

Neo's pod was in the fields, not the city. The two are a long way apart as shown in the movie.

Some suggested that the similarity in name between Zion and Zero-One was a hint that there'd be another big 'everything you know is wrong' twist in Revolutions, such as everyone turning out to really be rebellious androids with the machines as their human-controlled warders.

But there wasn't.

I would have preferred a Matrix in a Matrix ending.

The hacking equipment I was talking about.

How could a sentinal convieniently leave equipment?

The hacking equipment is what I was talking about. The machines need the humans to be able to hack into the Matrix, so they're going to leave (most likely) plans and components scattered about in a non-suspicious way.

And I didn't say it was Sentinels. There are lots of different kinds of machines as we saw near the end of the movie.

But how can a machine be inconspicuous?

'Ooops! I dropped these plans'

You have problems with machines being inconspicuous.

You (apparently) don't have a problem with machines being witty, cryptic, exasperated, angry, or French, all of which are things we also see in the course of the trilogy.

Why?

No, a big metal thing dropping plans.

It's got to more than just 'take this pill' and you'll be free.

AUUUUUGGHHHH!

IT'S NOT DROPPING PLANS!!! IT'S LEAVING THE RIGHT INFORMATION IN SUFFICIENTLY OUT-OF-THE-WAY PLACES SO THAT THE HUMANS WILL THINK THEY'VE CLEVERLY WORKED IT OUT FOR THEMSELVES!!! IF IT'S TOO OBVIOUSLY PLANTED THEY'RE GONNA SMELL A RAT!!!

I KNOW it's not 'literally' dropping plans.

No need to shout either.