gorgon wrote:Kinda? That was more or less the upshot of the Architect's speech, but it's never explained how this cycle actually operates or why to any satisfying degree, nor does it matter to what takes place in the third film.
The Architect explains it pretty well.
1. Machines want power.
2. Can't use solar as humanity screwed up the sky.
3. Will use bio-power!
4. We'll put all the humans in
VR so they won't resist.
5. We'll make a perfect
VR!
6. Humans rejected the 'perfect' lives.
7. We'll make another version, and give them a 'choice' to exist in it, even if it's just subconscious choice. Some will know things are off.
9. Those will form a human resistance, and the imperfection inherent to the Matrix will create "The One", someone who can outright break the system.
10. We will eventually kill the resistance, reabsorb the one into the program, reset everything, and start again, meanwhile, we get to keep all the power!!!