So remember when I was going on about the Tron 1982 Laserdisc extras, and the early storyboard art…
And one of the images was of programs in a cell, watching televised matches between other programs who were currently being forced to fight in the Games?
I find this a kinda fascinating idea, though we never saw it in the final cut of the film.
We do, however, see a possible means of doing it.
These scenes of Ram and Crom, in the first scene that shows the interior of the pit cell.
…Just what is that screen in the background?
What is it for?
Why is it just plain black, showing occasional flashing text in red?
What is the text? What could it mean?…
Does that device get used to show other things, sometimes?
It’s interesting that it seems to go kinda wild, in response to the arrival of Flynn…
…although sometimes it just seems to stall around him (perhaps when his own processes are stalling a little?)
My DVD doesn’t have high enough resolution to give me a clear view of the red messages on that screen.
I’m sure other people have analyzed this much better than I can (I’ve tried to look, but search engines are unreliable these days)
This is the clearest I can get…
My own brain’s pattern recognition functions are a bit chaotic as well…
The only one that sets them off much at all is… weirdly… that last one?
In the most unexpected sort of way possible
because all I can think of is, “it looks like someone tried to command the screen to print ‘Mayertis’… but it ended up backward and with gaps”
…my pattern recognition brain is clearly not in canon-land, but is instead referencing a dataset of headcanons it trained on while writing OC fanfic for @mayertis-not-a-user
maybe, however, this will feature in a fic someday.
