Agent smiths differ from the other Agents

[QuiDormit]

I'll try to keep this short and reasonable... dunno how good at that I am though :-D.

The thing about Smith is that we never see or learn anything at all about him from before... from the prior versions of the Matrix.

It all comes back to the Oracle. Everything comes back to the Oracle.

I don't think that she gave Neo his powers of the One based on the Architect's statements. I think that the Cookie was actually a portion of "the Oracle's eyes," or the ability to see the world without time. Remember, the Mero said that the Eyes couldn't be taken, they had to be given... Anyway, I honestly don't think that premonition is a part of The One's normal arsenal, I think it was an addition. Why would the Oracle give him the gift of foresight? So that he would choose Trinity over the rest of humanity. As for the powers of the One, well the One is just the One. He's the anomaly, the sum of the 1%. Controllable through lies of prophecy and his connection to humanity.

Also, the Oracle isn't the nice old lady she wants to be. Honestly, I think when she said, "you can't see past a choice you don't understand," what she was really saying was, "You can't see past a choice *I* can't understand." (That is, if she gave him the sight, as I assume she did. His power of sight was based on HER programming, and since she was the cook stirring the pot and adding the ingredients from beginning to end, well, I just think that the manipulator only let Neo see what she wanted him to see.)

Even a program as powerful as the Oracle cannot just, on a whim, say "let's break the war and stuff!" I'd dare to say that she's been planning this truce since the first or second iteration of the Cycle of the One. I think that, like a master chess player, she's been positioning her pieces for some time. Just waiting for the moment when her opponent's attention is focused elsewhere.

We KNOW that she gave Neo a little code booster, but we have no idea what she's done in the past. Since we've never seen anything directly related to Smith prior to when Neo was (I think he's like 40-45 in the movie, right?) shown, we have no idea what Smith has been through throughout his work as an Agent.

Personally, I think that she had found a way to meddle with Smith. It's not unimaginable to see programs feel emotions (which as I've said before is the whole point of Sati's parents little talk with Neo). We've seen Persephone long for the love that the Merovingian used to have for her.

Since we don't know whether or not the Oracle directly or indirectly (or even at all) influenced Smith, we'll just say for the sake of argument that he developed his hatred for the Matrix and the puny humans all on his own. Personally, I think that the Agent programs are reset along with the Matrix. Either that, or the Wachowski's left a gaping hole in their plot (which I don't think they did). Specifically when Smith interrogated Morpheus. Afterall, Smith would know that destroying Zion would be a temporary solution in the first movie, right? Why is he so hardcore on getting into Zion's mainframe if he already knows that the Machines will send a sentinel for every man, woman, and child to wipe those cave monkey's the hell out?

And this is where you say, "BUT BUT BUT Smith said, 'It's happening exactly as before.' 'Well, not EXACTLY.'"
Well then maybe the WBros did fuck up, but I'd bet that maybe, just maybe he gained a heightened awareness once Neo blew him the fuck up.

I'm going to make up a theory that just came to me. It is a reach, I admit, but hey, it actually does kind of make sense.
What if someone made a deal with Smith. Maybe Smith was promised that if he got the keys to Zion's mainframe, he could get out. Once he blew it up, fulfilling his purpose, of course. We all know of a certain Program with a penchant for offering programs the things he/she wants. So who's to say Smith didn't already have a deal with the Mero? Maybe that was why Smith's purpose this time around was to flush Morpheus out and get those codes. Maybe Smith KNEW about the cycle but had other reasons to say the things he said to Morpheus in the government building.

Or maybe I'm full of shit and it was all just bully tactics to get Morpheus to spill his guts. I just find it a glaring hole in the story that previously, Smith didn't seem to know about the cycle, and then he suddenly did. Brushing it off as "he lied" seems to simplistic for the depths that the story goes to in so many other areas, however sometimes people over think things and the simplest answers are the right ones.


Regardless, the fact that we still regularly talk about this story at all shows how much the WBros really left up to personal interpretation, and that's awesome. I wish more movies treated the audience like they had a modicum of intelligence.