The Matrix Reloaded Spoilage...

If you missed staying around for the credits, we basically get to see a fast-edit image/clip fest first trailer for The Matrix Revolutions. It's narrated by The Oracle (in character) and it features Agent Smith, rain, a quarter million Sentinels pouring into Zion, those big fighting machines we saw in Zion and One Last Chance... dare I say it, One Last Choice for Neo -- or doom for everyone.

Cool.

For What It's Worth, I don't think that Reloaded ends in the real world -- I think that they are still in the Matrix.

(1) Neo shouldn't have been able to stop the Sentinels. I don't think he "gains" superpowers in the real world.

(2) The guy with the short beard who tried to knife Neo, who wanted his captain to volunteer to help Neo and who was the sole survivor of the battle at the junction and is lying on the sick bay slab next to Neo -- he's working for The Matrix (or for Agent Smith), possibly like our "friend from Memento" from The Matrix, who wanted to trade our heroes for a virtual steak dinner. But how can this work? Well...

(3) Why should we believe a single word that The Architect tells us? I think Zion and the world of the liberated ex-Matrix plug-ins is just another layer of control, giving The Architect a way to regain control if Neo makes the "wrong" choice in the Mainframe Core.

(4) Agent Smith is not/never was just "an agent". He's a control program -- a manifistation of The Architect (or else The Architect is a red herring and Smith is the Number One) and designed to mess with Mr. Anderson.

Of course, this is just my speculations... doesn't mean anything.