»Chancellor is previous Neo«

(Originally posted in wrong, WhatIsTheMatrix, forum...re-posting here)

Chancellor is the previous Neo, the elder board are the remaining people that the previous Neo selected to rebuild Zion. Watch Neo's interactions with the Chancellor and comments about the elder board, this is pretty obvoius.

The Key maker was there for all the previous Neos, however, this time he was killed by Agent Smith (he is another anomally for the Architect and will have a major role in Revolutions) and said he has now fulfilled his purpose. Since the key maker died, the next Neo could not have saved the next Matrix (no more key maker).

Neo will fulfill the prophecy two-fold. He is "the one" for the Matrix; meaning he is the "remainder" the architect talked about. Second, he is really "the one"--he will have certain powers outside of the Matrix in the "real world".

My 2 testicles.

but Occam's razor would eliminate it. Easier to accept that Morpheus is correct when he says that Zion (at least, his version of it) has existed for over one hundred years, and that the one who freed the first of the citizens of zion was the last emergence of the One anomaly. The other council members may have been among those that were first freed from the matrix, but I think it makes more sense to suppose that only the One ever understands the whole plan of the machines, and that the current council members are people who were freed fifty or so years ago, after some fifty years previous of fighting machines.

I incidentally have a friend who suggested that exact same theory when we first saw Reloaded on opening night.

It would be easier to accept if Morpheus was 100 years old. The ONLY old people are the council members, and they are mostly women which fits with the ratio that the architect gives to Neo to rebuild Zion and also goes along with Neo's point on the Enineering level:

Quote:

Neo: So we need machines and they need us. Is that your point, Councillor? Councillor Hamann: No, no point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point. Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the Council? Councillor Hamann: Good point.

This is also why the board insisted on helping Morpheus' ship by sending more to contact him at the council meeting. They knew that their only hope was for Neo to succeed in finding the Architect and then rebuilding Zion; Zion would be destroyed no matter what. They don't want to allow any young people on the council who will not understand the "true" priority when defending Zion.

I'm sure you've already discussed this a lot with your friend since he came up with the same theory...I guess we'll find out tomorrow! But I think that Morpheus knows only what he has been told about the history of Zion.