Some cool things that could have been (MxO)

[EmeraldSkye]

I think the idea would be that the bluepills *don't* see most of the craziness that the redpills do. We see it, because we are no longer part of the system....

Exactly. It's a well-known fact that when people are confronted with something that should be impossible, most will dismiss it, refuse to believe it, or just not see it.

This. Because double clicking some NPCs, they would say that they saw some stuff, but it was rather dismissive.

Well, I am familiar with this explanation. But what confuses me is how it seems to be refuted by the movies themselves.

At the very beginning of The Matrix, we have a lone Redpill (Trinity) at odds with numerous Bluepills (the local police force) and a few of their Agent allies. Before you know it, the cops try to put the cuffs on Trinity, only for her to whip around and hand them a holy beatdown. During said holy beatdown, Trinity exhibits a few Matrix-tweaking abilities...two or three seconds of wall running, the 360-degree-pan Mega Kick of Doom...pretty fancy stuff, but stuff which can still be handwaved away by the belief that a Bruce-Lee-caliber fighter could pull off the same crazy maneuvers, right?

So then they all take the pursuit to the rooftops. Trinity's running, the cops are running and Agent Brown (or whichever Agent that is giving chase) is running. Along comes a big, huge gap between two buildings. Trinity clears it, the cops clear it (some of them only barely clearing it) and the Agent clears it. Along comes an even bigger, huger, street-sized gap. Trinity clears it, the cops pretty much just stop and say "That's impossible, no way in hell am I taking that jump"...and watch in utter astonishment as Agent Brown jumps and clears it. After all, common sense says that no normal human being can clear a 30-foot leap--even when running--which is about as broad as two traffic lanes and two sidewalks would be.

Who knows how amazed they would have been to get across and see Trinity clear a boulevard-sized gap with her Corkscrew Dive of Doom, eh?