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Ha, ha. You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
— Dr. Walter Gibbs ‧ Tron
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker laughs and treats static as something to expect from computers, then supports that reassurance by calling them unthinking machines. The reasoning sounds confident and dismissive. One reading finds a comic tension between the certainty of the explanation and whatever behaviour prompted it.
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