Shades of MCP Red
(or: PMS, the Power Management System)
Just had a chat between friends where we concluded that:
1. software updates are the Program equivalent of getting your period.
2. (buggy updates are like a real bad endometriosis period)
3. this means all programs get it, so Yori not only has to deal with her own period, she also has to comfort Tron when he’s on his
4. Yori is good at comforting. that gesture she does to Flynn on the solar sailer, with hands on his face, is a way of sharing/stabilizing energy
5. MCP would similarly try and comfort Sark, EXCEPT that MCP is pretty much ALWAYS on his period and having the worst one ever
6. This is 100% his fault because he is always dissecting and devouring other programs and thus keeps himself in a constant state of “updating”
7. the conversation ended when I said “it’s so much better for programs who have light cycles” and I don’t think I will ever again have a whole conversation set up a joke for me so perfectly
(The conversation should be over, but my brain of course is still making connections, and would like to add:
there were no updates happening to programs in the cells, because they were cut off from communication with their Users. This is not a good thing. It’s equivalent to how being particularly neglected and starved can cause your cycle to stop.)
(there is probably also an analogue to periods stopping during pregnancy, even if programs don’t actually do anything equivalent to pregnancy. At least, when a program is working on a big demanding project of any kind, you do not want to update the program right in the middle of that)
A new piece of software can get updated pretty often to fix bugs in the initial release, but after having been around for many years and being considered “stable”, updates are rarer, and usually just minor tweaks. An analogy for puberty and menopause?