Anonymous: <p>I think it's important to remember the cultural context the original film was made in. The Master Control Program being referred to interchably as "it" was almost certainly intended to convey its inhumanity and, by extension, it's villainy. </p>

Oh, very true. The authorial intent absolutely was NOT to train me on gender fluid pronoun use, LOL. It’s just fascinating that this is how it ended up happening.

And especially fascinating that it was done in that way – which I had never seen before. Dumont using both “it” and “he” within seconds of each other, not even addressing the different connotations of each.

As with so many things in Tron, I don’t even care if any actual thought was put into it originally! I’m all too happy to put in ALL the thought now, lol.