homodiogenes:

I always understood the Grid was a closed system but nothing made me really understand that conceptualy like seeing Tron 82. I hadn’t understood how truely special what is was Flynn was creating, and all those old ENCOM staff.

The religious element of Tron is sorely under-represented in other Tron media, ie: in that is discusses what digital worlds would truly mean for us as people. In a different way than Snow Crash or Ready Player One does.

yes yes yes. this.

Flynn was sucked into the Encom system and saw a world where everything in a computer– domains, gateways, software– was spiritually manifested as something you could see, hear, touch. where each thing was a metaphor, a graphic interface for something less tangible– and yet real and right in front of you, glowing in rainbow colors

Where programs were people– and yet the primal motivations, deep down, that drove all their higher wants and dreams, were the motivations of programs… not the same drives that evolution ‘programmed’ into the brainstems of humans. A place where programs were like us, and yet, on some level, still deeply, beautifully alien.

aaaand he tried to replicate it, and made a world of… programs designed to act like humans, living in just a glowier, edgier-looking version of a human city.

the moment I watched Uprising and found out that a program can have a job working for another program, and the other program can fire him if they don’t like how he does his job. Flynn you did not break the paradigm the way your experience should have taught you