spaceandthedigitalfrontier:

…Thinking about how everyone refers to the two worlds in the Tron franchise, the one inside the computer, and the world outside of the computer.

In Betrayal, Flynn them “the Grid,” and “the Real World.”

In Legacy, he refers to one as “In there,” And Clu refers to the other as “out there.”

When I’m writing RP, when Ed’s aware of the world inside the computer, he often refers to whichever side he’s not on as “the other side of the screen.”

Not sure what I’m getting at, something about the way what they refer to each world tells you a little bit about their perception of the two.

Where did we come up with the term ‘user world’? We’re missing a term that I think fits most programs’ perception of the world outside the computer much better. The one that Dumont calls it in the original movie.

Anyway, I just think “The Realm of The Invisible” sounds much cooler, and fits how most programs view users (and thus the seemingly mystical place they come from) better.

I find it interesting that in 82, we see the MCP say “he pushed me in the real world”… and later we see Dumont say “they keep me around just in case one of them wants to deal with the other world.”

It just strikes me how MCP is the one who claims to be superior to Users, yet Dumont is the one who acknowledges that the User world isn’t more real than their own.