Question about The Animatrix (something's been bugging me)

[Groo The Perverted]

I remember seeing The Animatrix and wondering something. During the Flight of Osiriis, the ship found out that there was a TON of sentinels 4 kilometers above Zion. They were found out and they took off on the run from the sentinels while the one woman was in the matrix trying to deliver a message.

They couldn't set off the EMP until she was back otherwise it would have left her dead in the Matrix.

My question is this, and no one has ever really answered me when I've asked people before.

Why did they not just dive bomb into the middle of all those sentinels and set off the EMP?

That would have disabled most if not all of the Sentinels, and it was 4 kilometers up so I wouldn't think the EMP would mess up the stuff in Zion.

Always was bugged by that.

[talak]

Most likely because it wouldn't have made as good a story. Would have been over a bit to quickly

But also the machine could have just replace the sentinel and Zion would have not been aware of the oncoming invasion.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by talak

Most likely because it wouldn't have made as good a story. Would have been over a bit to quickly

But also the machine could have just replace the sentinel and Zion would have not been aware of the oncoming invasion.

But if they divebombed in, hit the EMP, wiped out that whole area of sentinals, nothing would prevent them from just coasting on in to Zion and saying, "oh by the way...you're not dreaming, it's raining dead sentinels" lol

just my thoughts anyway...surely there's a rational explanation to show that I'm a massive tool (more than usual) and my thought process is deeply flawed.

[talak]

Originally Posted by Dreaming in Blu

But if they divebombed in, hit the EMP, wiped out that whole area of sentinals, nothing would prevent them from just coasting on in to Zion and saying, "oh by the way...you're not dreaming, it's raining dead sentinels" lol

just my thoughts anyway...surely there's a rational explanation to show that I'm a massive tool (more than usual) and my thought process is deeply flawed.

I doubt there is a rational explanation, more likely the writer taking a bit of creative license and going they are going to react this way.

Taking out the sentinel with the EMP would be the more sensible choice.

[NARMAK]

where would the entertainment value have been lol

it makes sense what you say however, there is the other argument if ya wanna go down the rational thinking route, these people when they jack into the matrix are near invincible until an agent shows up but in the real world there just flesh & blood bound by laws of physics & this create a more sense of fear for them when confronted by machines & per humans, sometimes we will either fight or flee on natural instinct

But that's judt food for thought, the real reason is you could drag the story out & get some entertainment value out of it rather than something you can end in 2 minutes

i usually hate hearing "well, why didn't they make it more realistic, you would have done this & that in x & y situation surely?" but it's gonna not have as much entertainment value & the only time them not being 'realistic' bugs me is when in films like crouching tiger hidden dragon they're meant to be in the real world but jump a 'mile' up into the air

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Here are some very good reasons why that would never have worked...

#1. Before they could get to a strategic enough position, the ship would be completely destroyed by the sentinels.

#2. In order to even attempt to reach a good enough strategic position (despite the incredible odds against reaching it) they would have to have all of their electronic systems running at full capacity. Thus, setting off the EMP while their systems were running would cause their entire ship to become a giant ball of useless metal. They would then plummet to the ground, leaving thousands of sentinels still operational to destroy them while Zion remained completely oblivious to the impending attack.

#3. Zion needed to know and the Osiris crew were the only ones who knew about the situation. They couldn't risk dying without informing Zion.

No offense, but this was a no-brainer for me when I saw the animated clip in theatres a few months prior to the theatrical release of The Matrix Reloaded. It took me a whole 10 seconds to understand.

[Al_The_Strange]

I gotta agree with everybody; they did it to spread the story out across two more movies. The ship would have never really made it into the heart of the Sentinels' formation without being totally destroyed. It was more important to inform Zion about their impending doom. Even if they did wipe out the machine army (which is a fairly cool idea, btw), the machine probably would have sent in reinforcements to replace them anyway.

And on top of all that, Zion had always been a pawn of the machines' influences from the beginning. There was nothing they could really do to stop the machine army. It was their destiny to be wiped out (at least according to the Architect).

[neos_peace]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

#2. In order to even attempt to reach a good enough strategic position (despite the incredible odds against reaching it) they would have to have all of their electronic systems running at full capacity. Thus, setting off the EMP while their systems were running would cause their entire ship to become a giant ball of useless metal. They would then plummet to the ground, leaving thousands of sentinels still operational to destroy them while Zion remained completely oblivious to the impending attack.

My bad man I ran with what you were saying in the beginning part of that. And assumed what I did in my earlier post. after rereading it. I understand what your saying, but still disagree wiht it, for the reason that they don't need to run at full capacity to get into a strategic manuver(assuming the sentinels would even let them ) cuz niobe didn't when they crept thro the passsges in the 3rd movie.