I got to thinking about the Matrix and how the sequels don’t make any sense.
In the first movie humans are enslaved by machines and are put in pods for some magic bullshit reason that doesn’t work in real life, but it’s a movie so that’s okay. A small group of humans have escaped and are trying to set everyone else free from the virtual prison.
In the sequels we learn that everyone has a choice and that 99% of people choose to be in the Matrix because in the Matrix you wear nice clothes, eat filet mignon, and all your physical needs are met because you’re plugged into a video game, whereas in the real world you live in an underground commieblock, wear sackcloth, eat snot, and do hard physical labor. Who wouldn’t choose the Matrix?
Instead of setting the 1% of dissenters free or just killing them, the machines concoct some extremely convoluted bullshit scenario where they set some humans free, the humans build a city and space ships, they re-enter the Matrix and have kung fu fights, and then after 100 years the machines kill everyone in the human city and have a single human who’s part machine select a few humans to be set free and rebuild the city to start the process over again. And they’ve done this six times, plus two beta Matrices that failed. It’s not until the very end of the third movie that the machines say “Okey dokey, we’ll let the 1% go free, LOL.”
It took them the better part of a thousand years to settle on a solution that should have taken less than a second for a super computer to figure out.