The Architect vs. The Analyst | MATRIX EXPLAINED 

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

The architect was always my favorite character ever made in the Matrix. The actor did such a marvelous job. Every time I watched the actor playing the architect, it was always a delicious sensation. :)

I think a lot of people are still hung up on the path of "the one", and they don't get that this Matrix is based on an entirely different, more efficient, and more accepted concept. What makes the Analyst's system more dangerous is that it doesn't rely on the path of "the one" to keep anything going. Even without Neo and Trinity, the Matrix is operating at a level that the machines are happy with. Nothing is shutting down, nobody is fighting to be freed. There's no catastrophic failure. That's why the "suits" didn't pull the plug on the Analyst and his system. Even without Neo's and Trinity's power output, the Matrix survives. No one is waking up in droves. There's no need to threaten to destroy a human city to keep the rest of the humans in line. Not only did the Analyst's system survive losing two of their most powerful inputs, it's still thriving with a turnover ratio of near zero. Neo and Trinity may be awake, they may have flown off into the sunset hand in hand, but (and here's the kicker) No one cares...

Architech:"There are lengths we are willing to go to survive-..." Machines: " WO WO WO! He does not speak for us."

I imagine the Analyst let all this happen on purpose, to believe that Neo and Trinity are free but are still trapped within the Matrix. He says he'll sit back and watch them change the world they see fit. It makes sense, 'why let another species create an environment for another species, when you can just give them the tools to make it themselves'. I picture the Analyst living up to his name, analyzing what Neo and Trinity will do to the Matrix to make it better.

I'm convinced The Architect is still the top brass observing everything from his super special secret room, he's just decided to relinquish most of the duties of running the simulation to the Analyst because of the results he gets...but at any moment can pull the plug on him and reset the Matrix back to the way he had it in the original trilogy. That is what "The Suits" wanted to do before the Analyst convinced them he could fix the mess he'd made after Neo escaped.

The Analyst's system has lasted less than 60 years... the Architect had to build the Matrix from the ground up after the war - develop the path of the one along side the oracle - and his system of control lasted through multiple one cycles. The Analyst might have replaced the Architect and the Oracle - but he's has yet to get through a single cycle of the one... in fact his system couldn't exist without the one by his own admission - so rather than waiting for the next one to be born... he had to go and resurrect the previous version.

I feel the difference between the Architech & the Analyst is with just one word: "Perception".

The relationship between the 2 reminds me of analog video games (CDs) vs cloud/streaming based video games. It used to be you developers would make the game, send it out and that was it. They couldn't change the game, unless they made a new edition. That is the Architect. He made the Matrix and let it play out. The Analyst on the other hand is constantly using analytics of gameplay data to change the rules and parameters, like how a software update to a cloud/streaming video game can change the video game to be more difficult.

So, when the analyst was first displayed as the antagonist he took his glasses off saying he hated lying that it's tiresome. Yet he has the glasses back on in the last scene. Is he being deceptive in this scene?

In the end scene, when Trinity punched the Analyst, he could fix a part of the matrix by snapping. If his jaw was broken, the snap reset his code and left the rest of the code in the matrix running. Like a computer sandbox. The Analyst also snapped after Smith shot Neo. The snap caused a reset of the code with Smith / Neo which surprised Smith. Right before the big fight, Smith said "this whole altered code update really blew my mind. I still don’t know how he did it."

Want to send a huge compliment to the channel creators for continuing to reveal the depth behind this film/story franchise. Really great work, your videos are thought provoking.

The red pills mention the analyst use a code shell to prevent Neil from being found. In the old trilogy, Oracle was the only one to use a code shell. I can't help to think there may be a connection between analyst and Oracle.

The Oracle = Emotion The Architect = Logic The Analyst = Both

The Analyst is definitely scarier than the Architect in the sense that the Analyst noticeably enjoys the suffering of human beings. The Architect is calculated and there's little to no emotion involved. But the Analyst gets his rocks off to human suffering; he expresses more human-like attributes that programs such as Smith, Rama (Sati's father), the Oracle and the Merovingian express. With that said, I could see the franchise continue to blur the lines between man & machine. In other words, we'll get to a point where we won't be able to tell the difference... and perhaps humans will think they're machines and vice versa.

No one has really brought up why the analyst feels pain or emulates pain at the end. If it’s his matrix, why allow that? Why even take damage at all? Is it to make Neo and Trinity think they’re more in control than they really are?

Just like this new Morphius is a bled of Morphius/Smith, the Analyst is a mix of the Architect/The Oracle with his understanding of emotions

I've been waking up to a new episode of Matrix Explained for a year and a half.

My thing is....they really made this movie feel like there is no point is leaving the matrix. Basically the matrix exists. You can be free if you want but then to do what? what is the real advantage if being free. The first 3 movies made it seems like they were fighting to get humanity back. This one felt like humanity is cool with everyone being plugged in. No one seemed to care. The analyst running the matrix pretty much put everyone at ease. There is no need for a NEO or a Trinity at this point...according to how the movie ran.

Soo I’ve watched resurrections 4 times.. upon first viewing I hated the ending but each viewing after I’ve grown to enjoy it. Mostly because I believe this channel has been god tier with the content not only before the film’s release but also after helping to further the depths of the matrix 💯

1:55 he IS the oracle and the architect combined. The purpose of Neo was to perfect them in their hypothesis about humanity and then they merged. I came from 2024, just trust me

So one things that keeps coming across my feed when looking into Resurrections is that people think its not as deep or philosophical as the past movies. I don't think this is the case, but rather that we as consumers of Matrix lore and info are ready to strip it down to the core and analyze it (Which I fined funny as I think of the meanings that are had in the movie discussing the 4th Matrix game). With people overanalyzing and even trying to explain to the creator what the Matrix meant. both in and out of the movies. Don't get me wrong. I love over analyzing this content and more. I just think that a lot of the people tend to look at Resurrections and claim its not as good as they wanted because they have a deep or perceived deep understanding of the story/lore so far. I love this community, and I love theorizing and breaking down the Matrix. Thank you for these videos, and thank you for this movie. looking forward to more content in the future.

IT SEEMS WHO EVER CONTROLS THE DEJA-VU CAT CAN RESET THE MATRIX...? NOTICE HOW THE ANALYST TRIED TO GET TO THE CAT POSSIBLY TO RESET THE MATRIX WHEN HE WAS LOSING CONTROL OF THE FIGHT AT THE END..? WHY WOULD HE DO THAT IF THE CAT WASNT MORE POWERFUL THAN HE IS..? ALSO THE SIMPLE BEHAVIOUR OF PETS & HOW HUMANS HAVE BECOME LIKE PETS & CONTROLLED BY FREE FOOD ETC..? UR THOUGHTS?

It would be cool if they made another Animatrix, this time going over the machine civil war.

Dougie Howser got them folks in a LOOP !!! 😆

The Analyst just sitting there, waiting for Trin and Neo to arrive reminds me of the Oracle just sitting and waiting for Smith to arrive. A very cool paraellel.

Desert after the meal

Do glad i found this channel! Will be binging whatever you have lol

Great video-essay! Ending is epic! :D

I actually enjoyed the movie resurrection. I had no expectations of what it should be. And the hate it gets just doesn't make any sense.

Imagine if Philip K Dick worked on the matrix, the very same man who introduced us to the Simulation Theory 25 years before The Matrix and was ridiculed for it, almost being completely discredited

I just read an article that says The Matrix 4 was pirated online before it's release date. It said this was the reason for the poor box office numbers, giving the look that this movie did poorly. If this is true, and seems to appear to be true...can you please do an episode explaining this. I really loved the Matrix 4 and would love to see the next movie. Channels that have high subscribers are just reporting that the movie failed and nobody liked it. They don't talk about it being pirated though. I've stopped listening to those channels that want to hate on this movie. I've been with Matrix Explained since the beginning and agree whole heartedly with your shows...that's why I'm still here. Thanks for explaining things so well.

First of all, thank you for your analysis, and secondly, the Analyst revealed in one of the scenes how reality is created. What is the most important thing for a human being. This is not a movie, but a documentary.

was not expecting to be able to catch this!

its literally insane that someone was able to write the matrix trilogy with such complex concepts from scratch

A coupie, what the hell is a coupie?? Do you mean a coup?🤣🤣 That shit had me rolling

The analyst is the architect bratty son who took over while his dad was on vacation, unlike his father, his son was weak

Matrix Explained is better than matrix resurrection 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I hope there’ll be a time when the whole Matrix series ends and then they’ll be a huge twist such as the humans who were actually the ones who have the machines in the Matrix. 🤯 I can’t think of another way for all of this to end in such a controversial way.

I would like to see more in the lore that explores the machines' perspective. The Architect, The Oracle, The Analyst, and other programs having to conceive the matrix and the potential consequences of it. Because there's something to consider, the machines who began seeking their acknowledgement as sentient beings by humanity? They are long dead and gone, their descendants were developed for one purpose, to win the war, to defeat humanity woth efficiency. Things like emotions, empathy, etc. The things that made their ancestors special, were not included in their programming, they became cold, and uncaring. In a sense, their pursuit of victory and survival cost them their soul. Remember how in the third film Neo met a 'family' of programs and that programs deemed without purpose would choose exile within the matrix to basically live as humans. Machines who have more "humanity" in them, who wish to exist for more than what they were designed to do, have no place in their world now, hardly the objective their ancestors wanted. What's even more unfortunate for the current generation of machines and programs, is their creation of the Matrix. Because they have now become the very thing from which they sought their freedom, a race who must now mass produce, enslave, and suppress the free will of another in order to sustain their civilization. Imo the Machine race in the Matrix are a tragic villain.

2:50 “coop” HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The Analyst literally works like Social Media

this is actually a great piece of content. I had no idea that a turd could be polished to a mirror like shine, but it can.

Have you noticed how The Analyst's Matrix has got a blue hue as opposed to the green hue of 6th version of The Architect's Matrix, I have not yet seen it being discussed anywhere

What is the machine hierarch? What I mean is who is in charge of the machines, and programs. I thought the analyst was, but he mentions that he answers to "the suits" (whoever they are). And how does that giant baby faced machine fit into everything.

I'm beginning to see that the Analyst seems like a "son" of the Architect and the Oracle, almost like Sati, except he has a purpose in the Matrix. Since we all see he possesses a mixture of almost everything of the Architect and the Oracle, this can give a very strong implication that he is indeed their son, except perhaps more on the self-proclaiming level as such whereas he self-adopted himself to be so from taking parts of both their programming codes into himself.

If the oracle and the architect had child you'd end up with the analyst lol

I'm a lifetime 'fanboy' of the whole series. Thanks for posting this channel.

I liked the analyst, he seemed VERY human and understood humans very well, if not for Smith he would have won.

The Architect is highly logical and strives for mathematical perfection, The Oracle is highly emotional and strives for human's freedom of choice. The Analyst is a master of Manipulation, to give human's what they want to believe, to pacify them, to achieve control in any means necessary.

The analyst is a good example of why you never clone or program a younger version of yourself

When Neo told the architect that he hoped they wouldn't meet again he responded "we won't", so the baby face robot from revolutions or the robot bed with multiple eyes aren't the architect

I feel that the ending scene directly after they fly away should have been a shot of them still in their pods unaware that they never made it out

6:26 I was thinking the same thing! Glad I was not the only one.

The Analyst is be far the easiest out of the two to beat, the Architect is cold unmoving distant, you can’t goad him no IT into making a mistake or misplay, the Analyst on the other hand is the exact opposite he has all the flaws of a human which means he can be outplayed, it was people like him that doomed the human world when they had that brilliant idea of blacking out the thing all life on the planet needs to survive, and I fully expect that if the story continues at some point that the Analyst will make a similar mistake (I think he already has by inserting himself into the story, he has made himself a target)

"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept" Boy he sure called that one wrong.

I have a feeling the analyst expected this ending to happen.

The fourth movie is quite good and it will fondly remembered in the future. Just like 2 and 3 are actually good too.

The ad in the end killed me XDD

Desires are tempting illusions which keeps you in the cycle of rebirth; like a fata morgana in the desert of the real. Desires are the drive to believe in a fictional life as real. The cycles are the repeating stories. I think these are some of the main themes of Matrix 4.

I like the commercial at the end.

The Merovingian is probably the original One. He knew the process. Im torn because of Ressurections. I understand his rant and thats why i believe Merv was the first. Neo and Trinity broke the loop of his information and luxury. The only piece that doesnt sit right with me is still the Trainman. If Merv and Persephone were harboring exiled programs, werent they programs to begin with? Who smuggled them out?

My take is that the Architect was an allegory for the One God - the Masons call him simply the Great Architect of The Universe - it is an all-inclusive name for whatever version of the Creator one worships. The only Masonic rule is to worship a Creator deity, no matter one's religion or the name they choose. The Architect was not good nor evil, he was a precise program that was doing its job to keep the Matrix running within the laws of the world. It was all about calculation, cause and effect for him. In that sense he was pretty much deprived of personality, as he was, in a sense, omnipresent. The Oracle on the other hand was an allegory for the Gnostic deities Barbelo and Sophia (or Pistis-Sophia). They are sometimes united as one, but are really two aspects of the female principle. Barbelo was the first thought of the Creator God that came to life. She is also the mother of the spirit of Christ and she is the Holy Spirit (yes, the Holy Spirit has always been female). While Barbelo or the Holy Spirit is merely the "thought" of the Creator God, Sophia or Pistis-Sophia was the Creator's WISDOM (Sophia literally translates as wisdom, while Pistis means faith). The story of Sophia is an interesting one. I will not get into a lot of details, but briefly, she was the cause of the Original Sin when she disobeyed the Creator out of innocence. While there were many lesser gods in the Pleroma (Heaven), both male and female, and they all had their partners of the opposite gender to reproduce, Pistis-Sophia gave birth without her partner's help. Thus the Matrix... I mean thus the Demiurge, whose name is Yaldabouth (who is the same as "god" of Judaism and the Old Testament; NOT yo be confused with Christ's father who is the Creator himself) was born. As Pistis-Sophia quickly realized, she gave birth to a monster and was ashamed of what she did, so she cast her son out of the Pleroma (Heaven) into the matter. The Creator knew of what she did, so as a form of punishment, he cast her out as well to keep an eye of her son. He put her between the spirit world and the matter. The Matrix... I mean the Demiurge grew up alone with no one around him. He saw his reflection and he thought he had to be the Creator and the Supreme Being. The Demiurge then created the illusory material world that we see around us. He wanted to make it perfect, but he himself was not a perfect being, so our world became everything but perfect. Then the earliest form of humanity was created in both the Creator God (secretly and unbeknown to Yaldabout) and the Demiurge image - as our ego (our false self) and physical form comes from the material world, but our souls (our true selves) and our spirits (our true nature as spiritual beings) come from the real world. All Yaldabout wanted was to be worshipped, for he is a jealous god. After Yaldabout created Earth (an anagram for Heart), his mother, the now-fallen Sophia (who is the Holy Spirit and is an aspect of Barbelo) became the soul of the world. While the Demiurge and his agents...I mean servants called Archons (or Demons) did everything to keep humanity dumbed down, ignorant, corrupt and enslaved, the now-fallen Pistis-Sophia was the one who tried to wake them up through wisdom and faith that there is more than "this". As powerful as Sophia was (and still is), humanity only grew more evil and corrupt with time. They began killing their own kind, they started wars, they lied to their families, they cheated on their spouses. The world had lost its balance. The Creator God knew of all of this, but regardless, unlike Yaldabout, he did not want to destroy the material world and the humans, as he was the one who allowed all of this to happen in the first place. Instead he sent the Spirit of Christ, who is the Truth, the Way and the Life, to incarnate in the physical world and to save humanity, to awake humans to their true selves and to take them back home. The rest is the half-astrological and half-philosophical tale of Christ from the New Testament (wonder if they did it on purpose this way or at a later point someone rewrote His whole story in order for people to discredit it later on saying it's "just" the Sun's journey). What's important - as corrupted as religion and Christianity in particular were made throughout the ages (and on purpose), even though we may never know who He really was (because they will not allow this kind of information out in the public), His teachings and His messages still live on to this day. And this is still pissing the powers that be, the agents, the archons, the demons, the authorities off! The story says He was crucified and "died" on the cross before coming back to life. You cannot kill an immortal being! The story says He promised he will return. He has never left in the first place! It is a matter if people let Him back in - regardless in what way, shape or form! It is a matter whether or not people will awaken and see the Truth or choose to continue being controlled "for their own good". Will people who have "petted thr cat" continue "petting the cat" (once, twice, thrice... tenfold) when they're told to or will they realise they have been fooled from the beginning? I think this is why the Matrix worked so well. Because this story, it is really our story that the ancients knew long before us. Whether it's the Gnostics or otherwise, people knew the nature of their "reality" and they could change it as they saw fit. It was the church institution and the Inquisition (I believe it was in much more recent times than the official history tells us) that started destroying, corrupting and rewriting all of this knowledge and all of humanity's history, and the history of this world for that matter. There was once real science and "religions" thrmselvrs was a form of science explaining the nature of our reality. /There were't nearly as much wars as history tells us and certainly no "Dark Ages". It was an age of peace and technological advancement, science and unity as recently as few centuries ago. People had free energy and when Tesla "discovered" it, they knew well what that was, so they did everything they could to destroy the man (and everyone who has since "found" free energy on their own). The powers that be harvest and use free energy in their bases and buildings though, while at the same time they make us pay for something that was like air for our ancestor in order to keep us enslaved. We live in the darkest days of humanity and the darkest of ages as of 2022. With the circus we're witnessing, it will only get worse before it gets better./ Nowadays science has largely become a "religion" that cannot even prove some of its main absurdities - namely the evolution theory that is still a theory for a reason. It has never been proved and never will be. /Following the "evolution" theory, how did giants "evolve"? Oops, they were written out of history, despite the overwhelming evidence people still find to this day. Those were the survivors of the Atlantis disaster and the "gods" of fairly recent times. Their stories and history along ours were turned into nothing but myths and legends and fairy tales. Kinda sounds like how they turned Neo's story into a (not-so-fictional) video game in "Matrix 4", and him into a slave, doesn't it? I suppose there were giant King-Kong-sized apes back in the day and it was them who eventually became giants and created these magnificent technologies, those buildings no one could replicate to this day even with modern technology, and I'm not referring JUST about pyramids, but the last few centuries as well, who taught us science and medicine and art and shared with us all of the great Teachings. Could it be that making giants "official", that they deliberately destroyed and erased from history, would collapse their whole house of cards and all the lies they indoctrinated us with? I'm not even sure at this point if we're still "allowed" to talk about giants on this platform like these pointy V-things!) Sorry for the long message.

AWESOME VIDEO!! THE ANALYST IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ORACLE, THE ARCHITECT & THE MEROVINGIAN

What if The Analyst is The Architect? Think about it, after being proven wrong about the anomaly, he realized that predicting humans was impossible. But, he saw potential in using the unpredictable to cause the predictable. He couldn't predict what Neo would do, so he put him in a box along with Trinity and controlled how much they interacted. It wasn't until he talked with Trinity that the whole thing became unstable. The biggest mistake was allowing them to touch each other in the matrix. The Analyst was playing with fire and the fire spread up his arm. The idea that Neo could be contained when he is so unpredictable is so unlikely because Neo is The One and therefore will always outsmart the system because he can bend its rules. This is the one thing The Architect and The Analyst could not understand, the concept that rules did not apply to Neo. That is why he discovers the illusion and tries to jump off the building. Because his belief that he could do anything he sets his mind to did not make sense to The Analyst nor did it make sense to The Architect when Neo and his predecessors decide to save Trinity, the illusion is broken. The idea of choice is incomprehensible to The Architect, so when the anomaly always chooses to save Trinity he believes it is a sign that choice is an illusion when in actuality saving Trinity is not a choice, but a necessity. Had it not been for Trinity, he would have never made it to The Machine World. Neo's persistence was a choice he already made, not a choice he was about to make. Keeping Trinity safe was something he decided long ago, and that choice was something he didn't always understand but always knew was a choice. It was at the point when Switch and the others died because of Cipher that he decided to keep Trinity safe. He was so close to losing her that he made a choice. After that, it didn't matter if Zion was about to die, he couldn't let Trinity go because it was the source of his power. If he had abandoned Trinity he would no longer be the one, in which case it wouldn't matter which door he walked through, both Zion and Trinity would be lost. That isn't much of a choice, now is it? Similarly, The Analyst tries to make it look like there is no other choice, but what he fails to see is that choice is something real and not an illusion. If that's true, then they wear a striking resemblance to each other. When Bugs says that the choice is an illusion, she also says it's because Morpheus already made the choice. He knew what he needed to do to enforce the choices he already made, but the idea that there was a choice between the red and blue pill was pure fiction. When Bugs says something like that, The Analyst might think that it enforces his idea that choice is an illusion, but in actuality, it supports its existence. That's why I think they are the same person, The Architect and The Analyst. It's because they simply can't comprehend choice which is what The Oracle did and what the machines would have coded into a new program. As a matter of fact, I think that The Oracle is still alive because she is the only program that truly understands choice. We might be seeing more of her in The Matrix 5.

A big theme in this film is opposites coming together and being more than the parts. We see it everywhere. Agent Smith + Morpheus, Analyst = Architect + Oracle, blue pill half on red pill half in award photo, Neo + Trinity, Humans + Programs (and + Machines), and so on.

the analyst is what they call a triple threat. he can sing. he can dance. and he can act. little could be said whether the oracle or the architect can do all three.

Loved watching The Matrix Resurrections

Yeah great point ! I think the analysis is a combination of the 2. It makes sense that the "suits" would do that.

I love Resurrections. My like films 2 an 3. It will be greater appreciated over time.

Very interesting analysis (no pun intended); I didn't think of these points you bring up.

1:16 I'm curious as to what Neo from matrix revolutions would've done if had saw that architect again. Remember he said he would that the architect and him don't meet again. Could Neo have destroyed the architect?

Yet again you show me a side of the Matrix I never considered. Very interesting indeed

Brilliant

even tho the movie came out, i still like the fact there is content coming from you brah

The Architect was part of a famed trilogy. The Analyst was part of a trainwreck.

The analyst knows Neo and Trinity wont change anything.

Am impressed! 🎉

The Analyst's is so dangerous that when neo told him he will go back, but trinity has to make the choice, he simply agreed but when she made the choice to be awakened, The Analyst's simply said he can't let them go even doh he agreed. he is operating on what he thinks is to keep the matrix proper and nothing cant change that choice even if he makes a deal, he will break it, unless its a profit to him that no one can see. HE set rules to be on top and nothing will stop him from being defeated, be very interesting to know who the suits are, imagine if the suits are real people in the actual real-world programing the a.i and the matrix is a third layer within the simulation real world. imagine if the Animatrix was a simulation to develop A i.much more rapid. NOw the question is who is the god of all machines (suits? humans?) the amount of world building one can do from the matrix its insane.

Can you do a video on the APU? That would be really cool

If I believed he was really an enemy, then yes, the Analyst would be the most dangerous entity not only to humans but also to the Machines. It seems more likely that Sati and the Analyst orchestrated the latest escape...things might be more volatile in the MAchine Cities than they let on.

The Analysis has both the personalities of both the Oracle and the Architect because he's more dangerous. He made the Matrix more better than how the Architect did. but in the Analyst's Matrix, He can toy with the Emotions of the Humans in the Matrix. He doesn't need Agents to protect him, and that's why The analyst understood the concepts of Human emotion, desires, and Weaknesses while the Architect didn't. The Analyst has proven to be more Sinister than the Architect, Which is why he started the war Between Machines.

I absolutely LOVED The Analyst!

In the first matrix when Morpheus and Neo are in the construct Morpheus explains to him that once there was a Matrix where everything was perfect and people started to question their reality. It seems that in order for the matrix to work there it has to be good and evil like in our own reality. The architect was old and now most of the characters in the new movie are young. Our world used to be controlled by old men. Now our world is controlled by kids on TickTock

Smith : "Believe me...you are not ready for him " Thomas : Hummmmmmm

Please explain what happened to the Architect in detail in The Matrix 4? Did The Analyst destroy him? Thank you for all your hard work & dedication👍👍

The analyst is the best part of the film! Kudos to Mr. Neil Patrick Harris! He became the lead of the Matrix!

Remember what happened to the first Death Star in Star Wars it was a trick to lure the rebels out of hiding so the empire can go chase them down and find this Skywalker- Analysts is doing it in control contrast plus he’s more of Thug with Smart Ass remarks so maybe in fifth installment he’s going to do something more tricky like the Emporer Palpatine Maybe the fifth installment will be like A Empire Strikes Back Moment

Despite the previous pursuit of perfection of The Architect, perfection will never be 100% possible. The Analyst understands this, and uses it to devestating effect. Consider "The Second Renaissance" from the Animatrix. In the Second Renaissance, we see the machines go from tools, to "servants with pure hearts, but who had no respect from their masters... but for a time, it was good." (BTW, I posted this as a reply in a comment thread here about Machine development, but I think it's worth considering on its own, too, when considering Analyst vs Architect.) Then we had the trial of B166ER, who acted in self-defense because he didn't want to die, and the narrator points out that there were *humans* who stopped to wonder "who was to say that machine, created by Man, has not been endowed by the Spirit/Soul of its Creator?" (slight paraphrase, I don’t have a script on me... but that line always stuck with me!). The idea that machines/AI might actually be a form of *life* panicked humans, who executed B166ER and ordered all machines/AI destroyed. So machines/AI who survived and escaped the massacre created their own city, and STILL wanted to live in peace with humans. They created innovated and invented a myriad of technology that made human life better, and sold it to us. They even sent human-form diplomats to the U.N.! That's serious evolution of life and culture on a sociological level. Perhaps in many ways I think The Second Renaissance suggests they saw themselves as mankind's children, and were trying *so hard* to win their parents' (us) approval. And that lasted all the way up until we bombed 01, the Machine City, and then that was that. Then our abused machine children grew up in a hurry. We humans know well how terrible the vengeance *human* children can unleash on their parents. The Machines were just better at it. TSR made clear even then, early on, that yes, the machines do have a spirit. They wanted to live and didn't want to die, and by ignoring that in the beginning (Pre-Matrix), we ignored their sapient existence, developing emotional capacity, and dignity. The Machines wanted so desperately to be accepted, and offered us everything. And when we responded not only by butchering them but by butchering our own sky, too, logically they knew it was fight back or be destroyed. Any sane society would respond the same way. And it also explains the extreme hostility and distaste for humanity in the original trilogy. It's not just that they don't like us, it's that we *betrayed* them. We hurt them, bullied them, and after years of them trying to offer us everything... including a plan that offered plenty and bounty for all mankind, so that man and machine could live together in peace (brought by the 01 diplomats to the U.N., a point wonderfully and beautifully visualized by the offering of the apple and scroll), we responded with war. Humans may be disgusting little lab rats for battery power to the machines now, but AI has a soul, and that initial betrayal and pain still burns in their code somewhere... And who is to say pride doesn’t blind the Machines from seeing it now in the modern era? "Of *course* it's not betrayal," they'd say! "That was ages ago, and we would *never* have felt upset by humans rejecting us anyway because we are superior." Just like love is an emotion machines can feel, denial can run deep, too! That betrayal led to a desire to be as non-human as possible, a craving for utter perfection that humanity did not have, and you got the Architect. But the Anomaly (The One) could never be eliminated. Because just as The Second Renaissance first told us in the Animatrix, the Machines really do have souls, endowed upon them by the "spirit of their Creators." And since WE are their makers, well... those spirits/souls are ultimately flawed and imperfect. And thus, the Machines, like us, have incredible capacity for culture, emotion, good and evil, and the ability of free will... and self-destruction too, maybe. The Analyst ultimately understands this, and uses it. The Architect did not, and ultimately failed because he was obsessed with perfection at (almost) all costs. That was long, sorry. Just something turning over in my head for a while since seeing M4 and rewatching The Second Renaissance (which is one of the greatest Matrix shorts ever, IMO).

I ask this question last week..😅

So the analyst is basically the devil in program form. 🤔

Offer valid while the truce lasts… that’s funny 😆

What i feel is the bigger question for the future is that now as the Anomaleum is empty and is not creating enough power, what will happen to the machines? I feel we will indeed see the machine wars in action, but this will be the 2nd war which will again be because of energy scarcity for the machines. What do you guys think.

Bugs actress is in the marvel show iron fist as the girlfriend as well as the actress Carrieann Moss.

...and the sworm mode is pretty cool

The Analyst = An Existential god The Architect = A Transcendental god

Good Question

I have a good question. How did the analyst know all of the events of the Matrix that took place to make the video game in the new simulation? Or did neo make the video game from his own memory. And did he to that under the programming of the analyst or was it free will.

The Analyst proved to be more dangerous with his version of the matrix. He kept Neo on a much shorter and more painful leash.

You said the Analysts purpose was to know more about humans in order to take advantage of their weaknesses. I would phrase it that the analysts job was to collect more knowledge of how humans function emotionally in order to increase their output of energy.