im reviewing an ms for a scholarly press and the thing that is bugging me the most is how badly the author appears to have misunderstood THE MATRIX

@oddletters when you say "badly," how far up the "oh no technolibertarians" scale are we talking

@owen it's just weird things like saying Neo was a "world famous hacker" or saying he's "strapped into" a chair during the red pill/blue pill scene. like, stuff you could correct just by _watching the movie you're describing_

@oddletters guh

"world famous hacker" is such a bad misread even if you take it in good faith!

@owen he's not famous! he's nobody! he says so in the running-through-the-office-from-agents scene!