Oracle Smoracle
Published November 09, 2003
We just saw Matrix Revolutions. I guess I liked it better than Matrix Reloaded, which I didn't like at all. If I had to sum it up in one word, my word would be, "Blah."
But, the one thing gets to me about this movie - and all the matrix movies, really - is that the "Oracle" character is completely useless, yet Neo and the rest of his crew cannot so much as wipe their respective posteriors without consulting her first.
Why do they waste their time asking this woman anything? They'd have a much better shot at getting a straight answer from a Magic 8 Ball.
The Oracle's preset answer to almost any question you ask her is, "When the time comes, you'll make that choice." Then there's her other favorite catch phrase, "You know the answer to that yourself."
Huh? What? Oh thank you, Oracle! You've helped me so much.
You're a great oracle....
FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!
What use is seeing the future if all you do is sit on your ass, eating cookies and making remarks like, "I knew that was gonna happen. Yep - that too. And, I also knew that other thing was gonna happen, but if I had told you it would have ruined the surprise."
I could be the frickin' oracle for Pete's sake! I couldn't be any worse at it than she is. Are there no bakeries that would hire her? That's where she needs to be. Her cookies might be good, but her advice doesn't even qualify as advice. It would be much more accurate to refer to her as "The Great Sounding Board Who Bakes."
I'll tell you what - ask me a question here, any question at all, and I'll give you an "oracle response" to it. I'll waive my usual consultation fee.
But, try not to be too upset if I'm no help to you. Remember, I never claimed to be helpful, just oracle-like in my wisdom.
- Oracle Smoracle
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hey DOracle (further reducing CJ's clever contraction), when you see the future is it the future future or is it just a possible future which will come to pass if I don't do the things that make up the content of this movie?
Eric, it doesn't matter what I say, because you've already made that choice.
I see the future future but it will never be of use to anyone. OOPS! I actually answered a question...Must practice being mysterious.
Have the Subway Magic-8 Ball sitting by my desk. I'll playfully consult it once in awhile like I did when it came down to posting a comment here and at first try it said: Don't count on it
So, I tried again and the 8-ball responded: It is decidedly so
Still not sure if it wants me to leave a comment or not, LOL. It's a good thing people don't rule their life by "oracles" like this :-)
Hey DOra (further reducing Eric's clever contraction of CJ's clever contraction), if you start getting too many requests to look into the future, you could simply say, "As it was in the past, as it is in the present, so it shall be in the future, that everything I say about the future is false."
Duane,
Soon, too soon, I shall simply be called "Do" and then, inevitably, "The Oracle Formerly Known As Do." I see it all too clearly.
I appreciate your concern for my time constraints. But, oracles love prophesying almost as much as we love cookies. If I wasn't doing this, I'd have to work for a psychic hotline, or maybe even do some phone sex with a prophetic twist to it. i.e. "The spirits tell me you like to be spanked." etc.
Believe me, it's better this way.
And with that, I leave you with these thoughts ........
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