The curious legacy of Tron: Legacy

> Turning Flynn into, like, the Che Guevara version of Steve Jobs has some historical weight. In the original Tron, Flynn was a brilliant creative nudged out of a company he built by monolithic suits. Incredibly, this became the Steve Jobs origin myth after the movie's release, when the Apple board demanded his resignation in 1985. Jobs was still alive in 2010, and his Silicon Santa routine reflected a mainstream burst of rampant optimism about computer technology. The world will never feel that optimism again. And you should be alarmed, maybe, by the fact that the young Kevin Flynn preaching about humanity's bright techno-future looks like an unfinished deepfake.

> Daft Punk's soundtrack is, like, an okay Daft Punk album.

> Turning Flynn into, like, the Che Guevara

> Kevin Flynn was, like, a cool computer programmer

> Like, here's a random scene

> a world with, like, the internet.

Never would I have thought that, like, this annoying verbal tick would, like, ever be a acceptable in, like, a publication which, like, presumably has an editor.