>> How would defeating Smith alter humanity's survival?
> 
>   All humanity is connected to the Matrix, Smith takes over the Matrix,
> Smith hates humans. What is there to not to understand? What do you think
> would happen if Smith succeeds?

 From what I've seen, it's more like Smith hates having to stay in the 
Matrix, and he really wants to leave it. So he's taking over it... why?

Sure, he certainly doesn't hold humans in high regard either. I'm sure 
he wouldn't mind killing a few billion of them just for fun. But he 
seemed far more motivated by wanting to escape the Matrix.

I actually have no idea what would happen if Smith took over the whole 
Matrix. I mean, each duplicate Smith is... what? A random human 
possessed by Smith's image? So...? Hmm.

(Now here, the first film spent quite some time explaining exactly what 
the Agents are and how they work. But in the following films you just 
have to sort of guess or make up what you think is happening.)

>   First you say that the Architect's speech was pointless, and then you
> complain that you don't understand what the movies were about.
> 
>   Maybe there's a correlation between those to things?

Perhaps. But the first film managed to explain the world through, you 
know, the *story*, the events that happen in it, without requiring a 
half-hour exposition in the middle.

>   And the Warchowski brothers had the entire trilogy plotted out from the
> very beginning.

OK, that's interesting.

Didn't Lucas claim he actually had the story for all 6 films planned out 
from the beginning? (Which is why the very first film is Episode IV.) 
And yet, the first three are celebrated classics, and the prequals are 
all almost unanimously regarded is inferior?

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