Dan Shor in Tron: 1982
(gifset: Ram at the Energy Pool)

…very VERY much agreed.

(Welcome to the fandom, btw. I don’t know what to think of the new movie, but I am VERY fixated on the 1982 movie and am happy to see anything awakening a new interest in it among fans, for any reason.)

As much as I personally ship Tron and Ram, and eventually poly-ship with Yori… I do 100% headcanon that every one of those three programs felt Flynn’s User-power as an uncontrollable attraction they couldn’t understand or resist.

which explains all of these three scenes:

and, specifically in the Ram scene? …I used that to make my own fix-it-fic headcanon of what happened there.

(With some basis in an early-draft script of the 1982 movie that provides an actual example of how program intimacy works. Because I’m a pattern recognition program.)