Well a lot of people think Flynn died, when he reintegrated with CLU. But what is his soul is still alive on the SD card the Sam saved??? can't be be reconstructed? He just has to get inthere deep enough find Kevin Flynn's soul and reconstruct it!! What do you think and why? Please be honest !

I'm toying with the idea that maybe it is there, but can't be reconstructed; a literal ghost in the machine who guides his son and his allies as they try to repair the damage. Of course, that would give a follow-up tale themes of karmic hell (he really can't move on until he's helped fix the epic-level mess he made when attempting godhood), and letting go (because only Sam and Quorra got anything resembling closure, and even then Clu threw a wrench in it).

Didn't Kosinski state that Flynn is still alive, and his code is simply scattered across the Grid?

Java Wrote: anonymouspunk89 Wrote:Didn't Kosinski state that Flynn is still alive, and his code is simply scattered across the Grid? Did he really?! Thanks for sharing. I always thought that Sam's SD card was kind of a strange curve to throw at the audience. It's cool to have that visual metaphor of his father being "with him", but we never actually see him put in the card before Kevin went kablooie. So, I never really thought that Sam could've "saved" Kevin on the card.

No prob, always happy to help a fellow program

Honda Enoch Wrote:I thought it was odd that a modern SD card plugged in and worked so well with a 1980's computer. LOL

Yes, well, um... I actually address that in one of my pieces of fic, and it resolves with "finally they figured something out," lol. I sure as hell wasn't going to go into it.

It looks like Sam plugs his phone directly into the computer (with the memory card plugged into the phone), though I'm not sure what cable they might use. Did USB exist back then, even if it wasn't very common? If so, I could make the argument that Kevin Flynn, of all people, would definitely have a machine using new technology like that, and so they might get around it that way.

Honda Enoch Wrote: ...Did USB exist back then, even if it wasn't very common? If so, I could make the argument that Kevin Flynn, of all people, would definitely have a machine using new technology like that, and so they might get around it that way. According to Wikipedia: "A group of seven companies began the development of USB in 1994: Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel."

Yeah, but I'm sure Flynn thought of it in '85. (*snort*)

In that case, some fancy rewiring would've been in order, perhaps. Which is where Flynn might've come in handy.

In all seriousness: I've always wondered. how they pulled this off. Maybe there's some way of doing it that I'm not thinking of this early in the morning, or maybe it's another of those things they hoped we'd just accept and not think about.

Kat Wrote:...In that case, some fancy rewiring would've been in order, perhaps. Which is where Flynn might've come in handy.

Funny you say that. I was just watching the movie again, and at the end when the explosion then fades to the real world. you see wires going into the open computer case with clips on the ends. As if maybe Sam found the port/connections whatever and direct wired to them.

Kat Wrote: Java Wrote:HAHAHA! I just tried to imagine a floppy disk being worn around Sam's neck instead 3.5" or 5"?

We gotta hook up Sam with the BIGGEST, gold-plated, bling-a-fied diskette possible