To briefly continue the last post I wrote (I'm at work, but pretty much done for the day):

The conversation Neo has with the Architect is quite intriguing. The Architect gives Neo two choices: he can either choose the door on his right and save Zion by picking a select handful of survivors (in his efforts to save the whole, though, Neo must suffer the fact that Trinity will die) or he can save Trinity and subsequently allow for the utter destruction of the entire human race (Neo, that anomaly in the Matrix, will cause the program to crash, which will shock those still plugged into the Matrix so much that they will die). Neo chooses to save his love, Trinity (it's a bit Orwellian, an idea that comes across in his essays, not so much his novels: unlike past anomalies, Neo has the ability to love the individual), despite the fact that the Architect clearly states that, despite the option Neo picks, Trinity will die. In fact, Trinity does not die; Neo saves her, defying the Architect's prediction.

What does that say about the state of the Matrix, and of the future of Zion? The building wherein the Matrix was housed, so to speak, blew up after Neo made his choice. I don't think that means the Matrix ended; in fact, it would probably be a bad thing for the Matrix to suddenly and shockingly implode around its inhabitants. My guess is that it is still functional. The Architect was wrong about Trinity's fate, after all. He was wrong about Neo's powers, and I can't wait to see how that all turns out in the third and final installment.

That leads me to suspect he was wrong about Zion's fate as well. Neo tapped into new powers at the end of Reloaded as he seems to be coming to terms with what I suspect is a second Matrix layered within the one we all knew about already.

Anyway, I tire of this issue. I'll move on to something else.