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Heartbreaking: your favorite movie series (tron) finally has a third installment (it's been 40 years since the first movie) there's no guarantee your favorite character (the series is named after him) will be in it because he might have died in the second movie (tragic, tear jerking, baby throwing) the two main characters of the previous movie aren't going to be in it (Sam and quorra ilysm) and the shittiest dude ever is playing the main character (Jared leto) (barf) and daft punk isn't in it (they broke up years before the third movie was even introduced) and we won't be seeing quorra navigate life outside the grid (because it's been so fucking long since the last movie that they aren't even bothering anymore) and we still don't have uprising 2 (discontinued)

#that about sums it up #waaaaaaah #im already sad #tron #tron lives #tronblr

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i think what made tron: legacy thematically fucky was misinterpreting tron as a sci-fi/transhumanist story. tron LOOKS sci-fi, and employs scientific concepts to drive its story, but really it’s fantasy — a romp across a nigh-medieval landscape, following a god that accidentally gets pulled down to his subject’s level, exploring their faith and skepticism along the way. the themes are mostly religious, it’s a movie about faith lol. another thing to understand imo is that programs-as-characters, rather than advanced borderline-alive AIs, are actually like, animist manifestations of computer components, more like sprites and fairies than digital human beings………………

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i think what made tron: legacy thematically fucky was misinterpreting tron as a sci-fi/transhumanist story. tron LOOKS sci-fi, and employs scientific concepts to drive its story, but really it’s fantasy — a romp across a nigh-medieval landscape, following a god that accidentally gets pulled down to his subject’s level, exploring their faith and skepticism along the way. the themes are mostly religious, it’s a movie about faith lol. another thing to understand imo is that programs-as-characters, rather than advanced borderline-alive AIs, are actually like, animist manifestations of computer components, more like sprites and fairies than digital human beings………………

#tron #tron uprising #tron lives #tron legacy #tronblr #tron: uprising #tron 1982 #tron: legacy #you..you get it #yes ot appeals to computer nerds and thats awesome but its also mythology #most of the time scifi is mytholgy #humans can only write new myths at the end of the day #and thats cool

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She's everything. He's just Beck

Had this idea like a week ago and I can finally draw it lol. This was quick so don't come at me for how terrible the suits are plss I'm sorry – I also had no idea what to do for the background

#tron uprising #stop i LOVE this #beck #paige #beck x paige #tronblr #tron lives #the renegade lives #theyre so ceeeeute

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task manager kill this man

#clu @ rinzler #tron #tronblr #when you end a task its actually rinzler running up and stabbing it to death

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#tron #tron uprising #tron lives #tronblr #ayyyyyyyyy #always here for tron art

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rinzler and daft punk requested by my bestie from here

#tron #tronblr #tron legacy #rinzler #this rips #rinzy my boi #daft punk

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What about an AU where Flynn gets bored during his thousand cycles trapped on the Grid so while fiddling with the system he accidentally sets off a sound file of Yackity Sax by Boots Randolph for an entire day. No one ever finds out it was him. It becomes an urban legend.

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#dumbtronaus #tron legacy #kevin flynn #tronblr #tron lives

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Hero Light Cycle design by Daniel Simon 

#tron #tronblr #tron lives

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#tron legacy #sam flynn #tron #tronblr #tron lives

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*shows up to tron fandom 400 years late with hand cramps*

#yassss #i love it #tron: uprising #tron #tron uprising #tron lives #tron legacy #tronblr #tron 1982 #tron: legacy #rinzler

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been thinking abt tronzler and the sea of simulation

#tron #tronblr #rinzler #tron legacy #tron: legacy #feel free to share you tronzler thoughts i am insane abt him #its just the inherent tragedy of the character #to be defined by loyalty and faith and have that ripped away and be the instrument of an oppresor #to have you greatest achievment be toppling an oligarch only to end up subsumed by another #its greek tragedy levels sad and we never got full catharsis #just blinking lights and sinking into the depths

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AU that Dyson spends his free time playing Animal Crossing on his Nintendo Switch

#dumbtronaus #Tron #tron legacy #tronblr #tron 1982 #tron lives

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Tron: Uprising - 1x07 Price of Power

#aghggagagaggagg #its so great #headcannon accepted #tron #tron uprising #tron lives #tron legacy #tronblr #tron: uprising #tron 1982 #tron: legacy #the renegade lives

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why do you need cardio, you're a computer program

why do you need an o2 mask, you're a computer program

#reblogging this again purely for the last comment #discourse babeeeeyyyyy #also that last line fucks #tron #tronblr #tron lives #tron uprising

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OK I'm gonna skip putting this in the tags because I have a lot of feelings.

I totally get the inconsistencies and the pieces of the world building that just don't make sense (why do programs have a concept of physical attraction? They don't reproduce that way bro)

HOWEVER, I would defend some of these by the blanket statement that Tron is and has always been a mythology first. Not an actual beat for beat realistic portrayal of computers and how they function.

Because I make this mistake myself in my own writing. I hit up my computer science friends like 'bro did I portray this right?'. And they're like 'objectively, no. But if you made it realistic it'd be way less interesting and ruin how the story flows'.

Because this world and its characters are only interesting to us as a reflection of humanity, transposed on to a new environment but human all the same.

Does Tron needing an O2 mask or using a treadmill objectively make sense? No.

Does needing an O2 mask imply to a human audience that your character is weak and critically ill? Yes.

Does using a treadmill imply that your character is trying to condition themselves and are very serious about staying in shape even if their circumstances dictate they can't go run outside? Yes.

Im not going to die on the hill of these choices but I will say that they make sense to me from a writing and storytelling standpoint. At the end of the day you can only make something so alien before it makes no sense at all.

Not trying to roast anyone here. Just raising a counterpoint. At the end of the day this show got canceled so there's only so much depth to get into before you run out of water.

why do you need cardio, you're a computer program

why do you need an o2 mask, you're a computer program

#Tron #Tronblr #Tron uprising #tron lives

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Regret

I was listening to the track “Alan Bradley’s Message” on loop, and couldn’t help but imagine how Alan might’ve felt during everything that happened.  He had remained fiercely loyal to Flynn for countless years and probably sacrificed a lot to remain true to his friend.  That’s why the fact that he doesn’t follow up the page himself is strange, initially.  We assume it’s because he thinks Sam should do it, but what if it was really born from Alan’s fear of the outcome?  Answering the page creates a binary result; either Flynn is alive, or Flynn is dead.  Perhaps there’s a part of Alan that was afraid to face that result, that after so long hoping that Flynn wasn’t dead he was afraid to have to accept the truth that he might be.

After Sam escaped the Grid and explained what happened, what if Alan was filled with regret, regret for his inaction? What if he had gone instead?  What if he could’ve saved his friend?  He played it over in his head again and again.

What if his fear is what really got Flynn killed…?

Alan seems like the kind of guy to play his cards close to his chest, to keep his feelings to himself (a lot like Tron, honestly).  He’d keep this regret close, and it would gnaw at him for a long time.

#the FrEAKING ART #hnnnnnnngmggnngngngng #i love it #alan bradley on the grid au #alan bradley #tron #tronblr #tron uprising #tron lives #flynn lives