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TRON: Uprising Trailer

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 6, 2011

So I guess this series is scheduled to appear on the Disney XD channel next year. From the trailer… uh, well, I can’t really make any judgments based on the trailer at all. “Competent CGI,” I guess. But I’m glad they have Bruce Boxleitner and Elijah Wood involved.

I’d probably be more excited about it if TRON Legacy had been better. Not that I disliked the film. I enjoyed it, but it felt to me like two good but half-finished movies spliced together at the last minute to make one movie. It was fun to watch, but it pained me to see the movie so often almost reach its potential, only to give up and go do something flashy for a beat instead.


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  • SteelRiverSavior said,

    When I see stuff like this, all I can think about is how media companies will do anything to keep making money. I can never take into account if anyone talented is involved or not, or if it will be any good, or even if it will be “true” to whatever history it is a part of (Tron, in this case).

    But, all I can think about is corporatization, of how huge companies ruin everything that was ever enjoyable. I think about EA and Bioware, for example. And it pisses me off :p

    As a musician, and someone who has followed and written about music for a long time, it reminds me of the new “indie” wave of music, how the “indie” feel is now mainstream. It’s because these large companies find anything that people like (in this example, anime-inspired american animation), they figure out a way to monetize it, and they create a bunch of dreck that they know people will buy / watch / listen to regardless of how good or bad it is.

    Because the kind of consumers that exist today don’t know how to relate good to bad, or shit to treasure. They only know that tropes exist, and they are supposed to like certain tropes or memes or styles, and so they become the consumer base of that area.

  • LateWhiteRabbit said,

    I don’t like to see “franchises”.

    I believe every GOOD story must have a beginning, middle, and end, all carefully planned out and executed and never revisited.

    Orson Scott Card (questionable opinions though he may hold) was quite right in his advice to novelists and storytellers that your story should be about the most important time in your character’s lives. If it isn’t the most exciting, important time in all their lives, why are you showing us this instead of that?

    And by definition, a sequel, if not planned from the start as part of a trilogy (with 1 being ACT 1, 2 being ACT 2, etc. of the same story), has to be about a more boring time in the characters’ lives, or you have just invalidated the first story as less important.

    That said – Paul Reubens is involved? Did anyone catch that? Pee-wee Herman is in TRON. Wow.

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