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RE: Re The BORG view of sexuality

far be it for me to challange you on this one Peter(I have read your Matrix
debates online  :-) )

I agree that much of what you see is shown in that fashion, most likely for
the benifit of the viewers (and at the same time being that analytical about
it,  kinda takes away from the movie experience) but, is it so impossible
for him to have some sort of muscle structure even though he had been in
that solution? if i remember, some quadrapalegics (sp?) use those electric
shock pads to rebuild muscle, even though they can't do it themselves. heck,
even Morpheus and friends were able to rebuild his muscle structure, i'm
guessing via something similar.

Of course, there can be holes anywhere that we can simply fill with the word
"science fiction", but then again we're looking at this futuristic scene
from a 2001 view, we're trying to pick it apart based on what we know about
science today (of which i hardly know anything. bleah. ).

I think it would be fascinating though, to really scrutinize the movie and
try to pick apart it's inconsitancies.

::chris::





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-over-the-rhine at actwin_com
[mailto:owner-over-the-rhine at actwin_com]On Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:35 AM
Cc: Over the Rhine listserv
Subject: Re: Re The BORG view of sexuality


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Liesel tarquini wrote:
> fair enough -- what i want to know though is how after 20-some years of
> soaking sans movement he got flushed down and not only was able to blink
> his eyes but also to start kung fu fighting???

The kung-fu fighting, as someone else pointed out, was all in his head.
But yes, the blinking -- and the way his arm stretched through the
amniotic sac, and the way he sat up and looked around at the battery
towers -- are all very implausible.  Since they don't affect the story in
any way, though, I prefer to think that none of those things really
happened, but were portrayed so that *we*, who had been witnessing the
story from Neo's point of view, would have something to look at.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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