I'm not entirely sure why the humans needed to be kept in the matrix.
Couldn't the robots just have lobotomised them and not bothered with the huge, resource depleting computer simulation?

Or, you know, just burned whatever shit they were feeding the humans on for energy instead and be 40% more efficient?

You're a doctor, you're qualified in these matters.
( Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:31, archived)

why didn't they just make batteries?

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:33, archived)

Because making the batteries uses more energy than they'd get out of them.

( Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:37, archived)

But there's that bit where Morpheus holds up batteries and says that's what the Matrix has turned people into.
Except the batteries are actually only imaginary batteries made by being imagined by people, who are being used as batteries....
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 26 May 2012, 0:34, archived)

wouldn't have made a very good film

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:33, archived)

It would have made more sense, and not needed the sequels.

( Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:38, archived)

They probably needed the humans for their creativity or something like that.
I can think of plenty of more practical power sources. Maybe they just liked fucking them in the back of the head with those metal spikes.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 26 May 2012, 0:18, archived)