I like your "religious" interpretation of Tron, harpo989. Users as deities, datawraiths as demons, everyone else as commoners. You've also got Thorne, the self-described "Master User" (false god), and his Z-lots. Corruption is certainly a religion for them. Rector scripts seem to be priests of some sort; I seem to recall reading somewhere that their purpose is solely the conversion/corruption of new programs. My question, now is: Who does the Kernel and his ICPs represent? My first guess is Law. Eventually, the law triumphs over false religion, and true religion in turn triumphs over the law.

Cool stuff. "Philosophy of Tron"... we are SO geeks.

The ICPs and the Kernel definetly do belive in the users. it is a thought though, in the computer system, was Flynn known as a user who really entered the computer? or was it never spread by Tron?

as for the Z-lots, I don't see them as zombies as much as falsely led (corrupted by Thorne) religious fanatics. (they will do everything in thier power to serve thier false god, "master user" Thorne)

Speaking of the Kernel's belief in Users . . . I found his reaction to Thorne to be somewhat, surprising. Once he knew Thorne was a User (or at least he suspected), he didn't really seem to show any hesitation in taking him on. Or Jet, for that matter. The Kernel is one cocky program!

Another thing, I don't know if it's been brought up before . . . does anyone feel that Jet, is in fact, ? You could argue Tron Legacy was , but I think it was actually Jet. And Alan is 1.0. The program was a mirror image of Alan, and any successor to would have been the mirror of Jet . . . you think?

is more like a program that decided that he could perform better than a user. He didn't exactly proclaim to be one, just that he can do /better/. I have no idea what kind of term would work with MCP. :P

..hmm, a mirror image of Jet would be INSANE! I wonder if Yori still exists out there somewhere...? (We all know Tron does!)

MutoidMan Wrote:I figure it's one of two things: Or, more likely, the suits that the Data Wraiths wear are designed to digitize in such a way that they grant the wearer certain abilities, a specific appearance in the electronic world and automatically encrypt their communications, like a virtual version of the Iron Man armor. Otherwise, there is no reason for the suits at all.

a good way to back this poing up is the fact that when Jet puts on the Energy claw, you can still see his circuits underneath. If you look closely at a Datawraith [if you ever get the chance] you can see normal circuits underneath their purple covering.

also, theoretically, in the real world the mesh would probably be a triangulat piece of purple fabric.