I bought the Star Trek Original Remastered CD series. They interviewed DC Fontana, one of the principle writers. She said that the audience of a Star Trek episode could handle one unbelievable thing, and going beyond that, the story loses its appeal.

The writers of the Matrix sure knew how to weave unbelievable things to make a great story. There are a few things that just don't make sense, and we fans overlook them.

Here's my counter example. About a year ago, I read a SF thriller. The author had carefully laid out two fantastic story arcs. I was sure wondering how they would come together.

The solution: A cyborg is introduced late in the book. The cyborg has super-human strength and intellegence. Yet one of the protagonists defeats the cyborg in a kung-fu battle. The protoginasts cuts of the cyborg head and plugs it into the ailing ships' computer. The ship is saved. The arcs comes together.

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I am concocting my own Medium piece on the Matrix. I allude to the redpill world being just another matrix, tricking the resistance into believing they are fighting the machines.