[dilyevsky]

Yeah it's a shame because it was such a cool Philip K Dick-esque kind of plot point.

> Which, to get really meta, you can explain as the filmmakers incorporating the inability of audiences to grasp, and projecting it into the film as an inability of the “free” humans to do so, so that (as part of the system of control it is established that Zion is) instead they were fed the “battery” story.

Yeah and the original was already meta being a postmodern critique of society so it's a "yo dawg I heard you like meta..."