IDEA: crowdfunded Matrix movies that basically retcon everything after the first movie and replace it with something that Does Not Suck™.
BASICALLY:
Find two trans siblings a la The Wachowskis to make a better The Matrix canon.
Hand them philosophy and Buddhist textbooks to skim.
BUT MAKE SURE THEY DON'T READ TOO DEEPLY.
@Elizafox maybe just ask The Wachowskis without having shitty producer, would be good enough from what I heard
@Elizafox CAPITALISM RUINED THE MATRIX TOO NO EXCEPTION
@CobaltVelvet Hah. I've always seen The Matrix as being in a future so shitty, the economic system doesn't even matter anymore.
@Elizafox but yeah from what I read a lot of the shitty choices around The Matrix (and especially the sequels) were enforced for commercial reasons.
@CobaltVelvet I'd believe it
Like the whole "humans as a battery" thing which is ridiculous if you think about it.
@CobaltVelvet The original plot they were gonna use, iirc "humans are basically a vast supercomputer," was way better.
@Elizafox and stuff like Switch's gender and all that. Small details that could have been nice too, but had to be discarded.
@Elizafox I will take my beating for “Beyond” from “The Animatrix”.
@Stephen_Stone UHM
*like, gives you a really super wimpy powpow, like, you prolly get bumped into worse on public transport really*
@LottieVixen @Elizafox i mean... some of it was bad, but some of it was good. and much better than matrix 2 & 3...
@tcql @Elizafox @LottieVixen "Too bad they never made any sequels."
@Elizafox a full remake where they get Keanu Reaves to play Neo inside the matrix and a woman to play her outside the matrix
@vahnj omfg
I would watch this.
@Elizafox it never made sense to me that you were effectively forced into your assigned gender anyway since your self perception is what realized your form and power in the matrix
If this happens we'd have a trans - centered allegory about how the state facilitates the marginalization of trans ppl and their allies who rise up against the machine
It'd be cool
@vahnj @Elizafox it's not clear to me if you already knew this, but the character Switch was originally intended to be played by a female actor in the Matrix and a male actor outside.
( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr1556522 )
AND IF YOU SAY THE ANIMATRIX
YOU GET A POWPOW