Am about a third of the way through watching a 7-hour playthrough of Tron 2.0. I really like it.
A few thoughts in no particular order:
I wish the video showed clearer screenshots of all the emails Jet sees. I hope there’s some database of all of them somewhere, so I can go through them at my leisure and get a better idea of the backstory being built. This video has them kinda blurry and I miss stuff.
I did catch a lot of it, though. Like that someone called “Gibbs Jr.” is now in charge at Encom. Interesting detail. Didn’t know Gibbs had a kid. I know a lot of this is treated as non-canon in the Legacy storyline. So far I prefer it over Legacy though.
Have reached the point where he starts finding out about “Tron Legacy” though. Which, in this game, I imagine is gonna be a program version of Jet (since Jet is the ‘legacy’ of Tron’s programmer?)
I like the huge variety of different programs whose names and functions we see for just a moment. (I think I saw Crom once! Did my man get rerezzed?)
I like the corny program jargon they use. “You’d lose your header if it wasn’t compiled on"… lmao
also when they say "have a nice microcycle!” I guess Encom “microcycle” is confirmed to be a day, as I suspected from the original movie
As a non-gamer I’m probably missing some of what’s happening. Will probably need to watch again and/or read summaries.
Fascinating how the programs think Jet is causing the virus, and how they act. Some of them actively try to kill him (what happens to all the programs he derezzes in self-defense? do they get replaced by backups? or are they just gone? and how does their absence affect system function?)
And then there are other programs that just stand there all calm, watch him derezzing their colleagues and cheerfully offer him help. So alien from a human perspective… but honestly it’s exactly how things work in my computer, so yay realism!
Lmao at how Jet constantly spins his disc on his finger. what purpose does that serve? just showing off.
When you’re finished with Tron 2.0, I heartily recommend checking out the sequel comic “Tron: The Ghost in the Machine”. Because it is quite possibly the weirdest piece of officially licensed Tron media in existence. In a good way.
