I think it would be extra hilarious if the whole pig roast was just like a completely visual graphic skin
like a videogame avatar the actual food was wearing,
and the actual food is just liquid energy, like from that spring
Which I imagine tastes like heavily caffeinated sugar water.
Bite into your slice of pork and it turns into Red Bull in your mouth
…this would be awful, but the more I think about it, the more this seems like exactly Kevin Flynn’s style
Like
It reminds me of the Star Trek TOS episode The Squire of Gothos
Where they land on this planet occupied by a powerful energy being who’s basically a spoiled little kid at heart
Who has this gorgeous ballroom and an incredible spread of food
But the food has no taste
And Spock’s like, “interesting”
this is not even surprising enough to call “fascinating”
And his explanation is: This guy is all about the aesthetic. None of his illusion has any substance. He doesn’t care about anything except how it looks. Obviously
Anyway Kevin Flynn is basically Trelane, that in some ways explains his Grid better than anything
i always took it to mean that Flynn was so out of touch with basic human stuff after being on the Grid for the equivalent of 200+ years that he was sitting there wracking his brain trying to figure out how to properly welcome Sam, and his thought process was “…i haven’t rezzed food for myself in like 50 macrocycles, man. what do User–what do *people* eat for, like, a fancy dinner? Lobsters? Does Sam like lobsters? Wait, are lobsters a real thing back home? Giant red sea bugs–am I remembering those right? Nah man, I think that was a hallucination I had once. ‘Llllllobsters.’ Not a real thing, doesn’t sound real. What did Sam like to eat when he was a kid?…HOT DOGS! Okay, yeah, and hot dogs are…plants. No. Beef. PORK. What’s the fanciest form of pork?…Roast suckling pig! Of course! Top score at dad stuff, Flynn! I rule!”
hahhahahaaaaa okay this is the funniest thing imaginable and YES ok that is definitely what he was thinking here.
(hilarious and tragic at once, holy hell)
how many years of isolation would it take me to start wondering if lobsters were a real thing or something i imagined?
