i think what made tron: legacy thematically fucky was misinterpreting tron as a sci-fi/transhumanist story. tron LOOKS sci-fi, and employs scientific concepts to drive its story, but really it’s fantasy — a romp across a nigh-medieval landscape, following a god that accidentally gets pulled down to his subject’s level, exploring their faith and skepticism along the way. the themes are mostly religious, it’s a movie about faith lol. another thing to understand imo is that programs-as-characters, rather than advanced borderline-alive AIs, are actually like, animist manifestations of computer components, more like sprites and fairies than digital human beings………………