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If you told me one of these actors played an angel and the other played a demon, made me guess, then told me which ones were actually which, I would not have believed you.

[surinnit]

bestie got me a michael sheen autograph on a picture of zuse so i made this because i'm normal

[fights4users]

I believed in the users once before | A system in disbelief

It’s so fascinating looking at legacy because basically in all of Flynn’s actions he has created the perfect situation to justify hatred and disbelief in the users.

Flynn did all the heavy work for Clu. There is no need to propagandize and lie when , in your view God has indeed abandoned you. He had taken a Polytheistic society that used to have more more individualized deities and inadvertently turned it Monotheistic. Between him constantly leaving and then going into hiding- to this society he truly has abandoned them. They have no other User input, requests, commands - he is it and he has left them.

As cycles go on belief wanes, this is a system that used to have direct and constant interactions with users and what they’re capable of and hasn’t in generations. Memory wanes, anger stews, distrust grows. And who comes in to pick up the pieces? Clu. He’s not making a single thing up, unlike most dictators he fully believes everything he spews and from a point of view… he’s right. (Again that’s terrifying).

Where the MCP had to forcefully capture and eliminate programs who still believed in the users (that he hadn’t assimilated or drained). Clu doesn’t. Belief was nearly stamped out organically!! In the grid it has truly become a cultish set of unwavering belief— unlike in Encom where it was a organic part of life stamped out by force. This is more “choosing to leave religion” if it’s comparative?

Those who fight in the games are strays- not regular programs but those broken or lost that are out just… wandering. Those are the ones that get tossed into the arena or rectified (from what we see in the movie) it’s not like the MCP. Clu doesn’t have to work so hard to get rid of belief because I cannot state enough, Flynn did all the heavy work himself.

In this grid the games are a purpose, horrific but using the infrastructure left behind by Flynn. Strays get the games — survival. Regular programs have something to do — watch.

There’s no mindcontrol in the crowd- their user hate and games enjoyment is a necessity if they want a society at all. If it is to believed— as Flynn himself stated Clu can’t create, he can repurpose. He’s the overseer! Not the creator. He’s doing what he can with what he has… he built Rome, which is not good (as sympathetic as I am towards Clu there’s like 12 other things you could’ve done before building Rome)

No one is a better example of Lost faith than Castor.

He’s fought for Flynn and his beloved ISOs , he was one of the best so much so he’s still sought after. He’s changed. “I believed but what did that do for me?” What did it get him but heartache and so many dead companions and at the end of it , after all this fighting Flynn disappears! His fall into self preservation and sour attitude towards users is completely understandable.

It’s sad that this has happened as the original film and novelization describe belief in the users as this intrinsic and natural thing all programs know to be true. And to have a situation where so many willingly abandon belief because there is no communication (‘user requests are what computers are for’) or purpose. That it had been made so easy for clu to turn that sorrow into a burning hatred. It is sad that this thing they all desire the most has basically been made into a cult sect who can’t let go of something that used to be so basic. Above all it’s just so fascinating that this all happened naturally supposed to by a regime, all Clu had to do was step up and acknowledge it.

In conclusion:

Now I’m not saying Flynn did any of this on purpose, he didn’t want to abandon anything, he didn’t want to create a system with no purpose. He was a excited young man who wanted to recreate something cool and was given the powers of a god. He didn’t know the impact even the smallest action could cause. He did not have bad intentions but oh boy did he fuck up.

I hope this makes even a lick of sense, I just have so many thoughts 😭

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!!!!!!! i love him !!!!!!!!!

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[actually-azi]

Michael Sheen is an absolute masterpiece 🔥

I wish Tumblr would let me post more gifs bc he has so much more range even than this, but alas, I had to pick 10 😭

Honestly though, how can one person absolutely rock so many different roles like he does? It's delicious

[k-d-t-art]

This Bowie-looking sumbitch had me by the theoretical nads when I first saw Tron Legacy

[my-chemical-mermaid]

Michael Sheen put his whole pussy into this role, if you even care.

[theministersdoom]

My favorite thingss~

[bluberryfields]

Happiest of birthdays to acting chameleon and Welsh seduction machine Michael Sheen!

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[surinnit]

can he invite me to his private lounge please

[fights4users]

Power | Speculating about drinks and recreation in the system/grid

So in my last post like this I went on a huge exploration into what Sleep cycles potentially could be like. I briefly mentioned drinks/food and recreation, it’s been sitting on my mind for awhile so here’s my understanding of things.

Programs don’t eat and they don’t need to drink either, sometimes it’s easy to forget but they aren’t human. As mentioned in the sleep post energy is all around them, it’s stored and transferred and used by them quite easily. It’s sort of a endless cycle by working you get energy from the world around you and regulating— some programs will sleep occasionally while others run constantly. (Sort of like real life). This isn’t to say you can’t loose energy or absorb more however.

I believe “food” as a concept doesn’t exist for programs, after all we eat it to convert it to energy and they get energy directly, so what’s their use for it? Basically my understanding of the dinner scene in legacy is this:

It’s some sort of power/energy that Flynn’s made into a recognizable shape or he simply has it for the comfort in familiarity/ritual.

Recreation and libations-

Programs don’t eat…but they do drink. This is scene in both films and made all the more clear by the fact a bar exists on the grid. They do it for fun. Drinking so much excess will give them a effect similar to how we get drunk, as seen in the first film when they come across a pure source in the cavern and act goofy until they chill themselves out. It’s a good thing for them, having extra energy to store can only be a good thing! (Unless you, you know over do it). It’s not their source of energy but a alternative and a recreational one at that.

The more and more I think about the legacy universe the more absolutely fascinating it is to me. We’re seeing them try and build a society- I love the factory metaphor where it’s “ Flynn sees a factory and says oh that looks cool and tries to build a world around it”. We’re seeing these programs try to make jobs without a outside purpose (things that don’t directly translate to real world computer use/function). It’s an autonomous system that’s trying to figure out what to do with itself after the fall of Flynn. It’s truly “ do what it looks like you’re supposed to be doing” as stated by Flynn in the first film.

What also gets to me is what Castor refers to drinks as,

I can see drinking power/energy starting as a emergency situation type of thing, like if you’re low and need it. Then slowly it starts to become a ritual, a imitation of the User— he’s there often enough in the beginning to have habits rub off and become misinterpreted etc. (In this case copied). I could write more but I can’t find the words right now.

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