toomanyfanficsnotimetowriteem:

Sometimes I think about the ages of the human characters from Tron. I don’t know if we ever explicitly get their ages, so I always assume they’re as old as their actors were at the time. Does anyone ever seriously consider that Kevin Flynn, at the very least, probably served during the Vietnam War? If his Wikipedia page is right, Jeff Bridges himself was in the Coast Guard then. I just wonder about how Flynn’s experience might have affected the way that he is.

…Oh gosh, that would mean losing Ram might not have been the first time Flynn lost a buddy to war.

Oh damn. WOW

…I guess if I try and imagine it, I personally end up thinking of him as a Vietnam draft dodger. He’s sneaky like that. (And I think he would absolutely be in the camp of “hippies who opposed the war”)

I don’t THINK any of the choosing-who-to-draft process was done by computers back then, but if it had been I can imagine that being one of his early hacking jobs.

“Now Clu this is important, this isn’t just correcting my bank balance or phone bill, this is a must”