{"id":11,"date":"2003-10-09T05:44:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=11"},"modified":"2003-10-09T05:44:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T03:44:56","slug":"matrix-reloaded-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/09\/matrix-reloaded-take-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Matrix Reloaded, take two . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that some time has passed since the initial release of <i>The Matrix Reloaded<\/i>, I felt it was a perfect night to gather together several pieces of the Matrix related media and see how they all pan out together. This means I managed to watch, in a single evening, <i>The Matrix<\/i>, followed by <i>The Animatrix<\/i> with <i>The Matrix Reloaded<\/i> and finally a downloaded copy of the in-game movies from the game <i>Enter the Matrix<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I must say that time, along with having access to the other sources for what is the middle part of the story, has helped erase any real disappointment I had with the second film.<\/p>\n<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, all three of you, <i>The Animatrix<\/i> and <i>Enter The Matrix<\/i> not only carry Matrix-related story elements, but direct plot elements referenced by the second movie.  From these you discover such expanded elements such as who &#8220;the kid&#8221; is and why he&#8217;s fixated on Neo, what the Osirus was and what they sacrificed to get their information to the others and even the reason Neo didn&#8217;t just fly off at the first sign of multiple Smiths instead of fighting all of them for as long as he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that some time has passed since the initial release of The Matrix Reloaded, I felt it was a perfect night to gather together several pieces of the Matrix related media and see how they all pan out together. This means I managed to watch, in a single evening, The Matrix, followed by The Animatrix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/09\/matrix-reloaded-take-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matrix Reloaded, take two . . .&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}