[homefield]

Well, following seeing it once I made these observations. (SPOILERS)



1) Zion mimics the pods, the tall machine like structure with everyone living around the outside, which would clearly show how the machines do in effect have control over Zion

2) Secondly, how EVERYONE except for the counsel is relatively young, which is the point of the Rave, to show that the inhabitants are in fact young partiers. Neo even asks the counsellor why there are no "young people" on the consel, and recieves a vague response. This suggests to me that the counsel are the select few who get to rebuild Zion. The age difference is interesting.

3) Furthermore the Counsel's continued undermining of Lock's defenses in supporting Morpheus and recieving word to the oracle seems to suggest that the only way to save the "human race" is by having Neo see the Architect in which he'd decide to chose a small number of people to rebuild Zion, as oppose to have Zion completely destroyed.

[Bogey78O]

Interesting. I should rewatch it to see how many are on it.

[Sentis]

In believe the counsel are computer constructs similar to the oracle. The computer expected NEO to choose to destroy the human race. The choice is life as a slave or death. "Give me liberty or Give me death" The choice was predetermined NEO had been programmed from the beginning to make the choice. The computers have no intention of destroying the matrix it was a lie they plan on letting Zion believe it has won the war and thus creating a satisfied group. The new disatisfied ones would create a new zion if Neo had chosen the first option.

[Sentis]

One last thing I believe the counsel are constructs because they are white. The rest of Zion is minority but the two most powerful counsel members are white. It seems to be a theme in Matrix. How many black agents are there? When the Matrix wants authority figures it creates white constructs when it wants people you trust it creates black constructs (the oracle.