Everyone has that hidden geek inside them. Mine is this: I have always been a fan of the series Doctor Who. Loved it since college. Yeah, it's campy and the older series definitely had the cheesy special effects. Yet, I, along with a large audience, still loved the show. I also like other sci-fi stuff like Star Trek and The Matrix. So, I see a rerun of the first Matrix movie the other day. I went online to check out something about one premise about the movie. Something was familiar that I hadn't realized earlier. Well, turns out our Matrix creators were definitely Doctor Who fans. There was like a 3 part series to the show back in 1976. Here is the description from Wikipedia:
the similarity of the film's central concept to a device in the long running series Doctor Who has also been noted. As in the film, the Matrix of that series (introduced in the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin) is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, allowing users to see representations of the real world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality.
Probably none of you care but I thought that was interesting. Not all of the Matrix was original.
Now I can sleep easier...
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