{"id":2569,"date":"2018-10-27T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2018-10-27T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:05:56","slug":"someone-actually-understands-and-likes-the-matrix-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2018\/10\/someone-actually-understands-and-likes-the-matrix-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Actually Understands (And Likes) The Matrix Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been longer than I&#8217;d like since my last post, but things have been pretty crazy (a common theme these days). As penance, I figured I&#8217;d share a Matrix-related link. I often check out <em>Just Write&#8217;s<\/em> channel since it discusses writing and story structure.<\/p>\n<p>In the link below, he analyzes the Matrix sequels. The general narrative is he hated them originally but re-watched them and now appreciates it&#8230; and even likes it (?):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvyCyyFRpfE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can see the &#8220;their target audience were 13 year olds&#8230; with PhD&#8217;s in philosophy&#8221; descriptor; and the saturated exposition is one of the reasons it soured me. Ultimately, I felt the first movie&#8217;s story structure was very tight, while the latter two meandered.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did find the analysis of the sequels intriguing, and it gave me some clarity for them (and even some appreciation?). Although, I still find them a disappointing follow-up to one of my favorite movies of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, I was originally not a fan of the Reloaded, but it did grow on me in that I at least liked what the Wachowski&#8217;s were trying to do with the world they created. It was just the execution left me unsatisfied. Plus, it didn&#8217;t help that they wrote Tank off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been longer than I&#8217;d like since my last post, but things have been pretty crazy (a common theme these days). As penance, I figured I&#8217;d share a Matrix-related link. I often check out Just Write&#8217;s channel since it discusses writing and story structure. In the link below, he analyzes the Matrix sequels. The general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}