so okay people were asking about my headcanon shit
I have a pointless amount of headcanon about this movie. Not the least of which being the IT crowd shutting down everything as fast as they can in order to get the situation under control, followed by slowly picking the pieces back up and putting shit back together.
And when they're doing that they find out that Computer has been fucked up for a while. Like, seriously for a while, and that's why there are big sections of the city which are broken and so on.
At some level, Computer actually knows this. That's why it admits to Logan that regeneration is a lie. That's why it's willing to treat him so badly to push him to desperation - so much into desperation that he actually does the insane thing and breaks city seals which as far as Computer knows is a short-term death sentence.
Computer knows something is broken and can't figure out what, because one of the things broken is Computer.
This explains a lot of things, including why they left Box out there working to gather food.
It's a food supply for the first people going outside again. Something to help keep them going while they establish the first round of crops and/or fishing.
So also in my headcanon, IT's working to get Computer back online, but more importantly, get Computer back online in a fully functional state.
Which is how they find out all this stuff.
Then - you may have noted that a lot if City still had power even right after the crash. It's open now, and more importantly, a fair chunk of the infrastructure is still at least functioning on emergency power.
eta: it's possible Computer self-destructs because Computer actually figures out that it's Computer that's broken and that it's Computer who has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths for no goddamn reason and it's genuinely "oh my gods fuck me. that's it. it's me. I'm the problem. WHELP"
@allanb@jonny It's very strongly implied. It's not quite stated outright, but the only thing it's missing is verifying that they have life crystals in their hands.
@jonny ooo, I like that. What attention I've given it has been mostly around making sure it works mechanically and about poor Computer actually figuring out "oh shit. It's me." and that being the emotional moment of whatever story this is I haven't written yet.
@jonny Well, that, and I don't think Computer cared much about it. I don't see it having a sexuality or anything of the sort. It'd be much more focused on the big picture.
"Hm, they like the sex. Is it affecting city systems. No. Well, that's fine, have fun with that."
They are not stagnant, technologically. That NuYou surgery suite was a new model. The latest one.
They have maintenance staff in other ways too.
People in general have jobs.
This strongly implies to me that they have an IT class, which gets back to the initial structure: that they get to picking up the pieces, find what went wrong before, and fix it.
"since it never actually selected people to reproduce by their fitness (as far as i noticed?"
There's a specific mention early on about Logan speculating about who his biological child's egg donor would be, not specifically in those words but in that meaning.
Computer was selecting, though along what axis we don't know.
@trixter Pretty sure that's how I saw it and : a lot. They cut a lot. Also the gay man who smiles at Logan on the Circuit was a big surprise when I saw it uncut.
I took some film classes in college, and this movie got brought up a lot, but I've never seen it. When I search for it on Kagi, it suggests this as a frequently asked question, so looks like we might be in for a good time