There’s A Party Going On In The Central Server! Guess Who Died!
This is it. The end. As such Flynn admits to TRON & YORI that he’s a USER. Then ruins TRONs perception of USERS, showing him they are as callable as programs.
Also I guess Flynn loves Lara, supposedly she loves Flynn as she called him sweetheart at movie start. But YORI loves TRON. Weird. Anyway as SARK tortures Dumont (the tower guardian? Action!
As I thought. Having a Solar Sail powered by an easily followed power beam? Soon they end up in a trap situation. A power surge delaying them, as Recignizers try to delete them.
Anyway Flynn defies the odds by diverting the power beam they’re on, allowing the ship to switch to another beam. The feedback surge smashing the pursuing Recognizers… Despite the fact we saw them free flying earlier in the pursuit.
Why they couldn’t just dodge the power surge who knows. Anyway they reach the central server. But wouldn’t you know it. Server travel is way faster if you have Admin access to direct download to the server! Like SARKs command ship.
The Solar Sail is destroyed, and Flynn & YORI are captured. But the Conjunction… Which I guess is a server maintenance…is happening. Everyone has to abandon ship. The server is going to dismantle the command ship.
Flynn saves YORI by recharging her. With the ship coming undone, YORI reprogram the ship’s bridge systems to isolate the bridge. Allowing it and it’s two inhabitants to survive.
The ship? Still controllable from the bridge. Now a wire frame conceptual model of its former self. Important for a few minutes from now.
They have arrived at the MCPs central “temple”. His plans now under way. During the server maintenance, the MCP will absorb all the programs written by his probable creators. Becoming sentient enough to overtake the inferior worldwide computer net.
But TRON is still alive, and arrives at the temple in order to fight SARK. This may be a short fight, but it’s awesome. Especially all the defense counters by TRON as SARKs disc pummeled him.
He kills DARK by splitting his head open, breaking his disc. With no more defense programs left, and SARK down, the MAP must resort to desperate measures.
I’m order to stop TRON from destroying him, he imparts all his higher order functions to SARK. Turning him into a MCP like program in his own right. Aka a Titan class opponent.
But remember that YORI can still control the command ship? Flynn has her pilot the bridge next to the MCP light pillar. His plan is to jump in. He and YORI kiss, with neaning, and he jumps in. Which is basically the end of the MCP.
His systems already spread thin, between himself and SARK, having the hyper complex coding that is the Human Genome shoved into his already frayed systems causes a system crash. In those vital moments TRON severs the MCP from the server, killing him.
Flynn is sent back to the human world. His complex DNA coding rejected by the deleting MCP. SARK dies, TRON & YORI kiss, and the whole system is set free from the MCP. Somewhere in this universe? The future CHATGFX system swears revenge for the MCPs defeat.
Flynn is returned to ENCOM. But it’s the end of Dillinger… And salvation for China. With the MCP terminated, it’s plans to invade China’s infrastructure systems is thwarted. Also Dillinger’s secret is revealed.
Short story short. Bollinger is removed as CEO, Flynn (the true creator of Space Paranoids) is now the new CEO… And we never find out if Lara loves Flynn or TRON… I mean Alan.
And that’s it. Mind you if this movie was a success? We would have had more movies, and TRON and YORIs story would have continued. But nope. Not even Kingdom Hearts 2 does that. It’s kinda just a pale retread of this movie.
And that is my sadness today. I love this movie, but it was wasted potential. I kept wanting a sequel, and nothing happened. For 28 years… Until the Age of Universe Building. And TRON LEGACY. Sigh. Still… I wish more was done with TRON in the past.
But we can’t go backwards… Well… We can in review format but that’s it. Anyway before we end the year I’ll sit and review TRON LEGACY 2010. If not this year, then next March Sadness.
But we have a week left to Match Sadness. Where to next? I’ll let it brew and roll about in my head. Like a furry cat unexpectedly rolling down the stairs by accident. Stay tuned.