It's one of the plote holes. But by using the wonderful word "Network" you can magically fill that plothole up if you'd like.

Thanks for the replies.

Yea Basic, I thought about it being nothing more than another copy of Sark, no different than any other copied file. I figured that much. Only, like I'd already mentioned, the commendations from the MPC following that combat was strongly suggestive that 'that' Sark was 'the same' Sark. Now, I know that it's not concrete, only greatly implied, basicly to the point that it was meant to be percieved as the same Sark, dispite the fact that we can just apply 'the copy theory' just nearly as well to compensate for it, I suppose.

I guess your answer, while I already concidered it before posting the question, is pretty much probably the best there's going to be for this. I just thought someone might present another possibility or answer that might have escaped my attention.

Is there any other ideas?

Suggestion noted.

Just so you know, I'm not pickin' the film apart. I'm just cooking up hopefully some tidbit to bounce around the conversation court. But, sometimes what one person might think is being critical another person might think is a way to seek a new fresh way to enjoy the film by finding creative ways to fill in the gaps.

As a matter of fact, I just thought of one to solve my own issue.

Imagine this...

I just thought of a way it just MIGHT could be done.

What if the MPC COULD access any other computer on a level that not only other computers and their users that are clearly not networked to Encom could be accessed in a way that maybe even Encom developers might not know about... even ways that could access every arcade game too. A radically new and stealthy way, even by today's standards. A way that enabled the MCP to ruthlessly put undeserved programs into games to be killed, not only in it's own hardware, but in arcade games around the nation. The MCP seemed prepared to access other computers in other nations as well... but how? How about this...

What if the MPC secretly found a way to network itself to other computers... through power lines! It learned how to not only use it's own power relays but even in such a sophisticated and atuned way that it could send impulses UP the stream to other unprotected computers across the power grid and, in some fantasticly revolutionary way that human's didn't make or yet know exists, have full access to. Perhaps "the game grid" the MPC refers to IS his secret access to all the arcade games in the world, being prostituted as an arena of excecution for unwanted programs. In effect, the MPC could end up accessing any computer that's simply plugged in to a socket, making them into unwilling yet unknowing extentions of it's own growing power.

And the MCP hasn't divulged this knowledge to a soul in either universe; his trump card that he plans to secretly play at the best opportunity to concur the other half of his sphere of influcence.. the human world. Perhaps the only thing the MPC's holding out for is to learn how to access a last remaining few computers with power supplies that are more stubborn to get through, but is managing to determine how gradually... as the clock slowly counts down to his finest hour.

Also, in the end, that's what the Tron security program ultimately accomplished; it severed it's ability to use it's hardware in such a customized way and when severing it, chopped the MPC down to the mere fraction of it's glorious techno-empire, leaving it too unsophistcated to protect itself from Tron's shutting the rest of him completely down.

Radical, huh?

THAT'S the kind of ideas I'm fishing for when starting topics like this. In what appears to be applying limits to the film I am in fact paving the way for it to be possible for it to be found MORE limitless.

What do ya'll think? You like?

You know, that's interesting.

Perhaps, just perhaps, that would lend itself to the first indication that programs could have and it's copies share a single soul.

Oooooo....

Interesting!

Any other cool angles?

--I am personally a firm believer in Conspiracies (the moon landings, UFOs etc.) and the one thing I have to say regarding the relationship between Tron and everyday life is fairly simple.
How can anyone of us be sure that we are who we think we are?--

Philosophy and religion have been tackling this question for many centuries. Maybe we can never know. Is it important that we are sure who we think we are? What is certainty? Round and round we go.

--I mean for all we know, our world could well be a program in itself, we may well all have been generated by a so called "User" for a purpose that still remains unknown to many of us.--

Sounds alot like some of the major religions out there now.

--This may sound really stupid, and I'm sure many of you will think so, but maybe it is a question that needs to be answered!--

I don't think it's a stupid question. I think it's healthy to question your environment.

Personally HUDD i think you've watched the Matrix once too often.

Hey, no worries, HUDD. It's healthy to ponder such things. It appears that in Tron, the programs (like us) had free will. Though they were programmed by their users, they still made their own decisions about how to get things done. It was the MCP who turned them into automatons through force, torture or starvation (keeping power from them).

From our point of view, any program we write doesn't have free will. But in Tron, they did. Otherwise, how could any of the corrupt programs ever have been corrupted. The red guards weren't written to be that, I'm quite sure.

Gads, Esotek! Nice avatar! Sketch strikes again, I see

Obviously I seem to have sparked a little bit of controversy surrounding this topic. To be honest I was half expecting the reaction and it has left me thinking - maybe I should think before I speak in future!

-Definately!!!

It's cool, Hudd.

Seriously, the direction you were taking the topic is the kind of stuff I enjoy chatting about too. Only, I was just having a bit of trouble understanding what you were trying to convey as much as I was confused with how it pertained to what we were already discussing... to be honest, I still am. HA! But that's pretty common with my teensy brain.

Anyway...

"Reindeer Flotilla" was his password, not a code.
If they put real code on screen it most likely would have been Assembly language, and that would have been even weirder.

"The System" of the electronic world connects all electronic equipment on earth everywhere, not just the Encom computer or a single network of any kind.

Apparently from the book's description, "The System" would also include every floating satellite as well, and that's why the Solar Sailer was a live stolen project, it flies through space being pushed by solar wind tethered on a laser beam? Depending on the tech.

Some actual solar sailer designs involve charging up with solar energy and then blasting the sails with short bursts of a high powered laser, causing an explosion against the sails and creating the energy to move forward. There's a "space elevator" design using the same principle, I think that one though uses small controlled nuclear reactions to create enough lift to reach escape velocity.