>Persephone was just window dressing in Reloaded, but she
>just happened to help things along. So what was that about?
>Yeah, she's hot to look at, but she's a program! What can
>she do besides what she was designed to do? But that was
>never explained.

She was eye candy and a filler. People made her out to be more important than she was.

>The architect and the Oracle were playing around with the
>whole thing and the architect said that the minds that
>wanted to be freed would be freed and the ones that wanted
>to remain (like Cypher...and probably my sister, if this
>joint was real) could remain.

It's all just a playground, anyway. You get to decide how you want to play.

>The question would be whether or not human nature would lead
>the surviving Zionites to try and come back to the surface
>and take over again, or would they just decide to live in
>Zion and jack in whenever to do whatever.

Only the ones that come from the Matrix can jack in.

>In case you missed it, the end of Neo was the end of Smith.
>In the first flick, when Neo merged with Smith, he became
>the positive and Smith became the negative. Its just like
>math, -1 and 1 equal 0. Once Smith merged with Neo, Smith
>could no longer exist. Neo figured that out because he
>couldn't finish Smith and Smith couldn't finish him. Its
>mathematics.

But even technology/science is nothing but nature. Duality is a theme that has been explored time and time again, for most of humankind's existence, esp. in our stories.

>Forget the philosophy for a second and think about the
>things that this flick and the Terminator films say about
>human nature. Philosophy has so many different
>interpretations, but human nature is just that and to me,
>that's what these flicks represent.

Nature has many interpretations, as well. What I beleive is different from what others do. To me revolutions was another way to explore human nature (post modernism), in all her forms and all the issues therein.

>"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, the world is a fine place and
>worth fighting for. He was right about the second part."

I like this quote.