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the endless list of my favorite movies : Tron: Legacy (2010) directed by Joseph Kosinski.

-The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day… -You got in. -That's right, man. I got in.

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Played through Mike Bithell's Tron Identity earlier this month. Started playing Tron 2.0 from Monolith for the first time this past weekend. Both have blown me away.

Cleaning up those corners of Tron I haven't touched yet. I think there was a comic published at one point I need to hunt down. The world of Tron really is peak

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Tron production photographs (1982)

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More of Ares filming at night.

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Any 82' program art coming soon??????

just for you, anon~

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Tron would rather die than endanger Flynn with his own existence, you say...

Because Flynn would turn the Grid upside down to find him, you say...

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Gonna be real, everything about TRON 3 feels like a Monkey’s Paw kinda situation

“I want another TRON movie!!”

*finger curls* You get one—directed by the same guy who directed *checks notes* Maleficent: Mistress of All Evil, and written by two dudes—one of whom has no notable credits, and the other of whom helped JKR write the script for her Harry Potter play!!!

“I wish the next TRON movie would be more diverse!”

*finger curls* There are multiple women and characters of color—but the Real Star is Noted Asshole Jared Leto, who won an Oscar for playing a trans woman!!

“I hope the next TRON movie includes some characters from the original film!”

*finger curls* Sure thing! Jeff Bridges will make a cameo. And that’s it. Cindy Morgan and David Warner are both dead, and we won’t ask Bruce Boxleitner back, even though he plays the character the franchise is named after!!

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Out of all the Tron ships, I think the Encom Trio cracks me up the most. Not because it's improbable, but because it isn't. Neither the original nor the sequel work that hard to dissuade from it. If snippets of the novelization have given me any impression, it doesn't, either.

If you want to see Tron and Yori as more outgoing alter egos of Alan and Lora, it's even funnier, because pre-Grid, although Kevin makes off-color jokes about him and Lora being together previously, and both her and Alan protest, they ultimately still find Kevin likeable.

And then in the grid, Yori's reaction to accidentally being taught to kiss by Kevin is to show Tron. Not "that guy did something weird to me" but "hey, c'mere!" And we know programs were supposed to have a form of intimacy, enough to warrant revealing (ish) attire and getting a room ala the Users. They know what touch can mean and they seem to have preferences of who they do that with.

(Hell, I think the novelization literally has them saying "I love you.")

Their roles aren't that different from ours; it's just that Yori learned a new form of circuit touching from someone she liked and shared it, acting as a kind of odd romantic conduit between this new guy and the one she's already with. Tron, for his part, doesn't seem near as annoyed with that as you'd expect.

If their actions are meant to be a reflection of the inner personalities of both of their Users, that's pretty telling.

And then you get to Legacy, and oh lord, where to begin? Sure, there's Jordan, for about a minute, long enough to establish Sam and a sense of family, then she's gone because Dizknee mom plot, and Sam's being raised by exactly who you'd expect him to be in Kevin's absence. It almost makes you wonder if they would've just wrote him as a son of a poly relationship if they could've gotten away with it.

And Alan's toting around that pager every day, waiting for a sign that his friend is still alive, not knowing that his own creation/possible reflection risked his life for and guarded said friend with all his might. We have no clue about Yori, but one can only assume she was just as loyal and involved up until a certain point.

It goes without saying how obsessive Kevin was, and is, about Tron. He can't even keep Yori and Tron's names separate from Alan and Lora's. Clu is a bastardization of Kevin, and he keeps his lobotomized Tron as a prized slave fighter who rarely leaves his side. So, I mean, yeah. If you were going to come out of these films with any "non-canon" ship, I think that'd be the most obvious one.

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I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

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I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

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Production photo of Yori and Flynn.

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Computer Chronicles - Windows 95

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new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

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Felt like sharing here my last year artwork with rinzler/tron hope u like it :3

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Nocturnal [ 8 colors ] Simply a collection of dots clustering in some areas and dispersing in others.