TRON: Uprising Series Discussion

Looks good. I'll be tuning in to see how it goes (hoping for the best).

Interesting mix of styles. I'd like to see this sort of treatment for any Johnny Quest revamp.




Doug

Reminds me of Aeon Flux, but still cool. I enjoyed it.

And nicely blocked for non US residents, which happens to be a lot of us. Same as DVD zoning : Pointless, frustrating, and torrent-pushing. Now, I have to wait for someone to be nice enough to upload this elsewhere... >_<

I can sympathize with you Davlin.

Kerr Avon said:

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I liked what I saw, but I hope they can explain how Tron/Rinzler is working at this point in time. It was more like they were suggesting Tron was being coerced to work for Clu, not that Tron had no choice. And if he has a choice, why do it at all? And if he doesn't have a choice, why would he help a rogue program?

Kerr, over at the Tron-Sector forums, I actually suggested this possibility of what might happen. And one of them is what TRON said happened to him.

Spoiler:

Basically CLU thinks that TRON is dead, but TRON is still alive. I'm betting what happens towards the end of the series' run, Beck and anyone else who revolted are going to eventually get captured and derezzed, either through fighting to the last second or forced into the games. CLU ends up hacking TRON and turning him into Rinzler, leaving him no memory of who he was until he sees Kevin Flynn in the Light Jet towards the end of the movie, which in turn kicks in his base programming.

Of course, I could be wrong. But a lot of people at the Tron-Sector forums actually like this possible scenario.

OldKen said:

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Finally got time to watch this. So TRON is in it... But a mentor background character?

Why has he aged yet CLU hasn't?

Raises more questions. Seems a missed opportunity to have Bruce B reprise the lead hero role one last time...

I don't think it's that he's aged, that's just data corruption (scarring) from the injuries he had from the fight with CLU.

CB2001 said:

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Of course, I could be wrong. But a lot of people at the Tron-Sector forums actually like this possible scenario.

Maybe. So Tron fought CLU, Tron lost and CLU left him for dead (though he didn't collapse into the data bits like anyone else who dies?) and Tron is in hiding? So Flynn should be in this world currently, also hiding, so then they'd need to address if Tron goes looking for Flynn. From the movie, we can assume Tron doesn't find Flynn, and since Flynn thinks Tron is dead he's not looking for him. Though unless Flynn isn't completely cut off from the civilized area of the Grid, wouldn't he hear of Tron being alive from this guy impersonating him?

There's some threads they're just going to have to tie up to make it all make sense or there's some discontinuity there. I hope they address it in some form or manner, because I hate serious breaks in logic or continuity like that.

But it was a great series premiere.

looks goood!!!!

I was really wanting to see this show but then I discovered they are airing it on Disney XD, a channel my package doesn't have. Argh!

I guess they won't post these online or anything eh after they air?

So... Finally found a torrent. Saw it. Enjoyed it, a LOT. Full of little details that bring a world up to its full potential. Cool action scenes. Some fan-service. Interesting characters.

Spoiler:

I really liked the Rinzler suit used as a disguise; Took me a while to figure that Tron is still Tron ( at first I thought Clu's reprogramming was incomplete, if not why letting Tron go alive ? ) and the black Rinzler is actually a disguise ( for now ).
My theory is, at this point, that Tron will have to sacrifice himself again to help Beck and Clu will then reprogramming him, burying the Tron persona under Rinzler's.

Great first episode. [ I found a copy 'on the grid'.]

One goof. As the train went upside down a second time it had its caboose back.

The helicopters were neat. But blowing smoke? It's digital, man.

terryr said:

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The helicopters were neat. But blowing smoke? It's digital, man.

Um... Did you even see TRON: Legacy? When the Light Jet got one of the engines damaged, it blew smoke too. Besides, the mindset behind how come the grid has rain, fog, smoke, etc. is because of the fact that it's ran for a long enough period of time that it began to develop its own realism (this has been explained by the director and the writers in many interviews). TRON: Uprising takes place in a period after CLU's coup. This means that it's in a state of transition, thus blowing smoke doesn't seem that far off and may in fact be one of the first signs that the Grid is slowly evolving into its own reality and eventually reaching the Grid as we saw it in the film.

And electrical components can burn, it's not a matter of just having gasoline.

Kerr Avon said:

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And electrical components can burn, it's not a matter of just having gasoline.

^True that.

Yes, but it's the real actual hardware that is burning, not the software. A gif of a fire isn't hot.

[actually, it magic smoke. all electronics are filled with magic smoke at the factory. when it breaks the magic smoke gets out and it doesn't work anymore.]

I enjoyed this greatly. Watched it with my kids this afternoon. Well done!

I enjoyed the premiere! Lots of great potential for a series. There were a couple of things that I didn't care for, mostly the fact that Tron is pretty much sitting on the sideline again, but other than that, looks great!

I found it Beck_s_Beginning_-_TRON_Uprising_-_Disney_XD_Official.mp4 - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

You have to log in but it runs good.

terryr said:

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Yes, but it's the real actual hardware that is burning, not the software. A gif of a fire isn't hot.

[actually, it magic smoke. all electronics are filled with magic smoke at the factory. when it breaks the magic smoke gets out and it doesn't work anymore.]

Are the people in the Grid just 2 dimensional 50kb files? No, they're actually simulations of people. And the machines are simulations of machines, and machines can break and burn.