Yeah I totally agree - as much as I would have liked these scenes in the movie because they do really flesh out Cyphers motivation (and its not like the Matrix

Yeah I totally agree - as much as I would have liked these scenes in the movie because they do really flesh out Cyphers motivation (and its not like the Matrix was an excessively long movie to begin with) I dont think these are incompatible at all. That being said as much as the second two films get shit on I rewatched both recently and number 2 really is quite good - not as iconic as the first Matrix but still solid. Unfortunately it seems its reputation got really spoiled by the third movie which.......well we all know how that goes.