It used to be that you could just watch a movie and be done with the movie and know it was great like the Matrix You watch the Matrix and got done is like the acting was terrible But he could stare down a bullet and learn things fast and the black guys glasses stayed on and I don't know how Cinema has changed forever But now we live in a world of media convergence where and it started with the Matrix films They spread it out into a series and it's not just the series you have the direct DVD animated stuff and the video games You have to acquire and get through all this stuff to get the full story and it's just homework It's just dumb homework But in the Matrix between the second and third movie a game came out And you know how when you watch the Matrix you were like oh my god I would love to be able to play as Neo he has all those superpowers. It's so cool and the game's like we hear you So here's 10 hours of playing as Jada Pinkett Smith You know how she has no superpowers you're gonna die a lot welcome to the Matrix By the way, she shares my birthday happy 41 years later to you I'm sorry. I'm attacking the entire Will Smith family tonight So you play the game is Jada Pinkett Smith and you're sort of like this whatever and at one point about halfway through you walk into a room and you start fighting vampires No for warning. There's just some vampires there and They try to explain how the Merra Vengean virus has the thing doesn't matter They put vampires in the Matrix holy shit that's cool That is there you won't see anything that cool. They'll never be a James Vaughn bond versus predator They'll never be like an NFL football game with machine guns. They'll never be Batman with a lightsaber But there was vampires in the Matrix the problem with this being that they said this was setting up stuff for the third movie So if you didn't do all the extraneous bullshit and you just watched the three Matrix movies you got down You're like that was terrible. He was Jesus the whole time I didn't understand But if you played the game and watched the DVD you were like me that one person in the theater alone like a lunatic screaming Where were the vampires? I love that because Because there were no vampires in the movie it shows that the Wachowsky siblings didn't have that as part of their overall idea That that idea came from some kid sitting at a conference table who throughout I don't know vampires and No one said no and then it was just real and I've been in that position because when I first got to LA I wrote for a reality show and I'll pause while your brain resets If that's not something that you previously that you knew to be possible And while sitting there we had to write our season finale episode We need a big cliffhanger and I threw out there something too. It wasn't vampires, but it was close. I said hey What if we killed off a character? And no one said anything for like five minutes and just looking around a table of executives all in their head like What would I have to do to murder a teenager for ratings?