antimnemonic:

when i first watched tron as a wee sprog i didn’t really understand it lol and somehow i came away thinking for years that kevin was rendered partially amnesiac when he got sucked into computer world and steadily regained his memories over the course of his adventure. obviously that’s not what happened lol. i think it would be an interesting story tho if a user was digitized and Something Went Wrong and they ended up w a chunk of their memories knocked off. and while they’re on the grid, they keep losing more. so they have to race to get back out, because as they’re losing their memories they’re losing their sense of self, and past a certain point of deterioration they can’t be reconstituted again

Ooh fascinating!

I can see how you got that idea honestly? Because when the programs questioned Flynn about who he was, that was what he claimed.

Told Ram “I don’t remember much,” leading Ram to reassure him that some disorientation was normal and the memories would come back to him. Then later, when Ram informed Tron that Flynn had been “disoriented in transport,” Flynn replied that the memory return was happening, and now he was “remembering all kinds of stuff”

So yeah, you remembered it exactly the way Flynn said.

I do think the intent of the scriptwriters was that Flynn was lying about that, to avoid having to explain who he really was. But … it would be interesting to interpret it otherwise.