Well, taking that route, I think it is safe to say that it is entirely possible that energy does not only have the liquid form. We are never told that. All we hear is that they've never had it this close to the source. Perhaps liquid energy is its "purest" form. Weare never told solid energy can't exist, nor are we told that it does.

I realized a while ago that we're never really told a program (or user) needs to CONSUME energy. Tron, Flynn, and Ram like the feel of "pure" energy (and from the sound of things, they don't seem to get that very often), but it seemed to be in the same way people like the feel of alcohol, if their behavior was to be believed. It might be something that gives them a little extra boost, like a good cup of coffee, but I don't know they would've NEEDED it to survive.

To me it has always made sense that a program would draw its essential power from the system itself-- when's the last time your browser or word processor went kaput because it didn't get power from some magical source rather than the machine itself (though, not being physical hardware, we could debate in which way a virtual construct needs power to begin with)?

We don't know what the food was made of anyway. It could've been energy. Or it could've been nothing, just something for taste and familiarity. Maybe even if you don't need to eat in there, your stomach will still continue to function and signal that you're hungry if you don't eat regularly. Who knows?


We don't know why there was weather, either. Or Flynn's Arcade signs. Or why Flynn seems to sleep. Or, for that matter, why there's a club there or what the point of the Sirens/Armory is. Or a lot of things they could've explained. I don't see the "dinner" as being any different from any of that other stuff, and if I had a choice, I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather see explained than that.

digit Wrote: Kat Wrote: We don't know why there was weather, either. Don't get me started on this, I complained about it even before the movie was released ;}

There was weather in . Remember the "clouds"?


The weather in Legacy was just higher resolution, just like the rest of the objects in Flynn's grid.

digit Wrote: Kat Wrote: I don't see the "dinner" as being any different from any of that other stuff, and if I had a choice, I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather see explained than that. Fair enough, but it's still a blooper.

Nah, I don't think so, anymore than the light cycles don't make only 90° turns is a blooper or the recogizers now have exhaust and seem to function along more-or-less newtonian principles is a blooper.

We can't be told all the "whys" of the Grid, because it would just end up being nonsensical, anyway, and would not advance the narrative. We have been told in background material, that Flynn was actively tweaking the Grid to produce some outcome that he preferred.

At some point Flynn decided he'd like to be able to dine on roast suckling pig while on the Grid, and coded it up. It's not "food", just like programs don't breath "air". It's whatever sustains programs (and human forms projected into digital space) reskinned to be more interesting to Flynn.

Sso02V Wrote: digit Wrote: Kat Wrote:I don't see the "dinner" as being any different from any of that other stuff, and if I had a choice, I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather see explained than that. Fair enough, but it's still a blooper. No, a blooper is a mistake. This if anything is an oversight, but is being way overthought. Kevin Flynn's son shows up, so he makes him something to eat. Whether it's just reconfigured energy, or a pig Flynn digitized and has had in cold storage the whole time, it's most certainly not a blooper.

Of course, this whole site is dedicated to overthinking .

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My "take" on the pig thing or any of the foods was that Kevin created a kind of "food replicator" program that works the same way as the one from Star Trek does. Say what you want and "boing" there it is.

Thats just the quick thought that went through my head when I first saw the scene and never really thought much past that about it. ahha

BanditTron Wrote:My "take" on the pig thing or any of the foods was that Kevin created a kind of "food replicator" program that works the same way as the one from Star Trek does. Say what you want and "boing" there it is. Thats just the quick thought that went through my head when I first saw the scene and never really thought much past that about it. ahha

I wish I felt that way. That is the worst scene for me in either of the two movies. It leads me to immediately start asking questions, questions that the writers should have provided answers to.
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digit Wrote: Sso02V Wrote:So how is a roast pig an embarrassing mistake? It isn't on Earth The problem is we are given no foreknowledge of any animals in digital space. The viewer is left wondering how it got there and what else is there. Mosquitos? Tigers? Sharks?

Digit, that's a good question. What do you think/imagine?

digit Wrote:I don't imagine anything. This is not a role-playing experience, it's a motion picture I also don't prefer anything, only that things that don't make too much sense be properly explained. If Orko defeats He-man or Lex Luthor defeats Superman in an arm-wrestling match, it is up to the writers to explain how that happened. It shouldn't be left up to me to brainstorm for logical explainations. Even in fictional worlds, there are still realities that govern the lives of the characters :]

But that doesn't mean that the producers have to tell us all about it in one film. They don't have to do it all for us. I personally like movies that leave me thinking and theorizing, such as how identity disks are linked to a program's lightsuit. The producers don't HAVE to explain it, and I have more fun figuring out an explanation on my own.

Why is it so ridiculous that when Sam is forced to play in a sports arena, he's given a uniform?