thought: since we’re all pretty upset with the direction of tr/3n…why don’t we just Goncharov the third movie?
Not Tron Aries. The actual Tron 3. The one made with love for it’s fans. You know the one I’m talking about.
Fuck it we ball.
Yeah, Yori was so cute in that trailer - glad they didn’t relegate her to “side character and love interest only there to support Male Lead” and had a good reason for her no longer looking like Cindy Morgan (RIP). Plus, did you see that punch? No disc, no back-up, and she owned. Tron could never.
I’m ecstatic to see Tron back on The Grid! Did you see those new data pushers? The trailer music was so good, keeping Joseph Trapanese was the right move. I’m pretty sure Beck is in one of the lightcycles too!!
I’d like to think that scene with Tron and Ram at the Input/Output Tower was a nod to the Odyssey scene in Deadpool, but c'mon– we Tron fanfiction writers have been out there pushing the boundaries of what can constitute a sex scene for YEARS. Is it too much to theorize that they just listened to the fans?
YES!!! And the scene where Tron finally came back online after they fished him out of the Sea of Simulation to be reunited with his counterpart AND finally meet his user?!?
That scene had be SOBBING happy tears. So happy for all of them it was such a sweet scene!
Ohhh my god and they brought Quorra back, too. I know she was only in the trailer for a split second but I can’t wait to see what they do with her in the movie
The title– Asterisk– is just fascinating, SO many possibilities!
(and this is me being biased, as a fan who built my whole OC around the motif of an asterisk– so you can call me an overactive pattern-recognition program all you want, and it’s probably fair!)
But just to reiterate the many meanings of an asterisk! Visual symbolism for multiple data points connecting, of course– backed up by the meaning of “footnote, here is where we go off on a tangent.”
All things are connected (and I have to say, there are a few snippets we got in the trailer that backed this up! All those clips from different scenes, with the cinematography mirroring each other? Callback to Legacy, of course, but also, callback to the very theme of interconnectedness.)
Aster means Star, of course. And Daisy (as in: give me your answer, do– wouldn’t be the first time Tron made a 2001 homage!) Then there’s the ASCII for it (101010, not only hinted at in the October 10th release date, but also… c'mon. 42 in binary. Who doesn’t love a Hitchhiker’s Guide reference!)
But then, we must remember… what’s an asterisk in programming? Wildcard. Stand-in for anything.
So, who knows what to expect!
We shall see.
The first screenshots from the tie-in game was recently released. Really excited that we’re getting a turn-based Tron RPG! And I think I saw some references to Tron 2.0 in there? Maybe it’s just a cameo, but it would be really cool if they’d be able to tie those timelines together!
Speaking of cameos, do you think there’s any truth to the rumors that Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner will be having cameos in the film?
aaaAA!! I will absolutely derezz if I see Desi Arnaz Jr. and/or Chuck Wagner in there. There would be no possible cheesier love letter to the dorkiest side of fandom and I am HERE for it.
…come to think of it, those few seconds in the trailer that appeared to show a Bit (?) transforming into a Lightcycle (???) take on a WHOLE NEW MEANING if we’re talking Automan cameos (cannot believe I even typed that phrase!!!)
OMU I don’t even care anymore whether the program in the background of that RPG screenshot is Mercury or not. *screaming*