fossilesqueClueless about Biology
Bassman1805The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever.
That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can’t feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.
BlueLineBaeI could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn’t understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.
Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what’s really going on.
My headcanon is that he tried the more technical and correct explanation, but most people he told it to started to go a bit glassy-eyed during that part, so he simplified his pitch.
Default_DefectThe showing of the battery is a good visual to sell the explanation too, regardless of it not making sense “realistically”
JackbyDevI believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.
They’ve probably all heard the speech at some point. Except those born at Zion.
Also there’s plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong, like everything revolving around Earth.
RustyShacklefordStudio executives made the decision, you know… because there hasn’t be a long list of projects they’ve fucked over the years with their notes. 🙄
I feel so bad for the people who remade The Thing because the studio executives literally forced them to make everything CGI.
T0RB1TSort of a remake, sort of a prequel.
A premake
And IIRC it was after they had made a bunch of practical effects, so it’s not like it was saving them money or anything. The execs literally just said “re-do these parts but worse”.
tetris11The humans blocked out the sun, and probably dashed all other power sources available to the Machines. What you have left are self-replicating humans. Makes sense to keep them alive and farm them just enough to tide you over before their next breeding cycle
How do you farm anything without the sun?
that’s what they did, I guess got food from indoor farms?
That takes a ton of electricity. How do you power the indoor farms?
Well they scorched the sky which created lots of wind and lightning storms. Maybe they harnessed those sources, or this being the future, used the scant antimatter generated from each strike?
So they do have energy sources after all! So tell me again why do they need to farm humans?
Mmm I’m beginning to see. Even in their own lore, Operation Dark Storm was a failure that crippled humanity and only temporarily halted the machines.
Operation Dark Storm
During the early years of humanity's war against the Machines, the leaders of the United Nations found themselves desperately trying to halt the advancement of 01's armies, who were relentlessly advancing and overrunning various nations in Africa and Eurasia. When the war began sometime after 2139 (approximated based on the end of the Second Renaissance), the Machines were steadily winning against humans. Looking for any way to slow their advance, scientists devised the plan to block the sun's r
They just eat the other humans remains, duh!
The real reason is the machines are using all the human brains to fake generative AI responses to keep share prices going up in line with their original programming.