Sweet Jesus, I just read 10 pages. I am not going to make much sense, but let me give it a shot. I just saw the film last night.
First, I have to get this out of the way:
Master Control Program, I mean Architect, “Neo, I am your father!”
K, let me check my notes now…
After the instant Colonel Sanders reaction the Architect reminded me a lot more of the Wizard of Oz than Freud I must say…
LarryMudd and Rubystreak own this thread 
Rubystreak has already made half my comments for me, and LarryMudd is making me wonder if he doesn’t have a brother called Andy. I think LarryMudd should use spoilers on his posts, cos it sounds like the whole Gnostic angle is down pat, even including The Ones love of a Triune One, Trinity.
I have read the whole damned thread, but I am going to repeat what other people have said anyhow, I deserve it
Achernar and SenorBeef are in on my line of thought, the one about food in the Matrix. The Oracles sweets looked EXACTLY like a red pill. Food, including pills, has been shown previously to be a neccessary step in “evolution” in the Matrix, splicing code snippits into people. Persephone in mythology was also “brought somewhere else having eaten what she was given”. Persephone reapplies her lipstick and then kisses Neo, did she force-feed him something?! If it was purely her sucking emotions, then I think it was Trinities rather than Neos, her reaction was so much more “tasty”. I am kinda stuck on the idea of her having transferred something to Neo though.
Rubystreak I believe mentioned this, from the Animatrix “What they do is create a little mini-matrix, stick half-a-dozen humans in it, and then invite the AI-based critter in with them, in order to introduce him to the joys of flesh and make him an ally. It works, but things go wrong, and the story ends with the matriculated AI saving the (female) protagonist from certain death, only to bring her back into the matrix with him, which she’s not too thrilled about.” Is that not “The Rape of Persephone” in a nutshell, at least the last bit?
The screens I think are the possible “branches” for Neos reaction. In order for the AI to be “all-knowing” it has to predict to some extent what will happen given a set of circumstances. To do this, it maps all the possible reactions to any given stimulus. Logically, all the previous Ones reactions would be a part of its “possible response database”, which would easily explain any confusion around them saying “One? Two?” etc.
As to the ethnic make-up of Zion. If the last One was black, it would be (perhaps) be logical that a majority of those he chose as his 23 would be black. Especially if he were for example African. With the core re-population group being of colour, and with the prevelant concept of Zion being the true utopia (where love sees no colour), then the present day population would be a beautiful mix. This also explains why there are no ugly people in Zion 
Do we know anything of time and aging in Zion? I believe that either the Councilman or Morpheus was the last One. The Counciller speaks of the bond between the machines and men, something that he would know well about if he had met the Architect and chosen to keep the Matrix running. The Morpheus suggestion is not half as strong, but would explain his unerring faith in the One and also fit in with my theory on the ethnic makeup of Zion above. Logically though, my money is on the Counciller.
Smith, and the Matrix-in-Matrix-or-not debate. I believe Zion is the real world, although there are good arguments to be made for the opposite. If nothing else, even if the first 5 Ones were the device of the Architecht, this still leaves room for the coming of the True One, one who is The One in all the ways we believed in the first film, a super man. In that case why would his powers not extend into the real world. However, I believe more that Smith and Neo are now like paired Bluetooth devices.
Smith was a bit wiggy even in the first film, he hates the Matrix and believes the downfall of Zion will set him free. Could then part of what he transferred to Neo be what made him choose to not patch the Matrix and re-build Zion? I think that is very possible, that the Smith-bond is part of what has caused Neo to “break programming” and choose the opposite of what those before him have chosen. I think the wireless theory holds most water in the long run. Smith made it fairly clear, he gave Neo his old wire - he is now wireless. Is it possible that the wireless capibility was transferred to Neo when he was Smith-stabbed? If so, what got transferred to Morpheus in the corridor? What did Smith leave when he Smith-stabbed Morpheus.
Finally I have to congratulate those who made the “Can you DIIIIG IIIIT!” and “Oh, One, OH, ONE, OH!!!” comments. I am still laughing even though it has taken me twice as long to read this thread as to watch the film (to be honest, reading the thread has been much more entertaining than watching the film, I nearly left 
the thread has rekindled my love of all things The Matrix though.
One last question, why were Neo and Trinity so panting-for-it? Apart from the obvious reason of “Who wouldn’t be, have you seen them?!”. Are they not allowed to shag on-board due to it being a military vessel or some such?
