astercontrol:

there’s so many allusions to ancient Greece in TRON 1982 and I love it, which makes Legacy hit even harder as a tragedy because… what is a more devastating Greek tragedy than… getting replaced by Rome

yes yes totally!

and also at least some programs seem to be aware that the gods, while powerful, are not omnipotent or infallible (really much more like the ancient greek idea of gods than the modern christian idea)

that said, there’s a uniqueness to it that I’m not sure matches any IRL religion… is there any religion where everyone has a personal religious figure dedicated to them? I mean not just like “the god of farmers” or “the patron saint of carpenters” but like the personal god of andy smith in chicago… i guess sorta “guardian angel” but… if there’s any religion with actual theology on a concept like that, I wanna read about it

at the same time, I very much doubt that every program actually has a specific dedicated User that’s only theirs

because I don’t know any programmers who have only ever written 1 program (if that were the case everyone would be named Hello World and what would the Grid even be like)