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?
The crescendo at the end of the trailer where Tron and Yori share a passionate kiss was *mwah* chef’s kiss.
That scene where Lora saw the laser though…
Yeah, I heard that Ms. Morgan was able to get some of her scenes and lines as Lora in before her death. Disney might bullshit the rest like they did with Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars Sequels.
So, what do we think of that flashback within a flashback sequence prologue chapter that Alan Dean Foster added in on the novelization? The whole bit with Alan Bradley going through Countess Ada Lovelace’s journal while he was in college?
Reading about Babbage’s attempts to write an encryption algorithm to be run on his Analytical Engine. In particular, the part about Ada’s suggestion that he call it Locke. Babbage thinking she meant as a reference to the “clockework” (sic.) that powers the Analytical Engine, when in reality she meant it to be a description of what the formula was supposed to do, “lock up secrets”.
This feels like a deliberate nod to Lisberger intending the name Tron to simply be short for “electronic”, when the computer nerd fans in the audience all theorized that it had something to do with the BASIC language debugging command TRace ON, which sort of fits with the idea of a security program that watchdogs other programs to find out what they’re doing.
But then Lovelace’s journal takes that weird turn where she starts talking about her dreams in that poetic language about a city run like precision gears where lanterns flickered on and off. The implication is that The Grid somehow existed even in her time and she somehow had visions of it. And her being Lord Byron’s daughter is certainly justification for the poetry.
It just seems out of left field, even for Foster’s writing, though. Admittedly, it’s not the first time ADF has turned to dreams to flesh out things that weren’t explicitly stated on screen. He got a full chapter out of the cryopods opening in his novelization of Alien by talking about the cryosleep dreams of all of the Nostromo crew (down to Jonesey’s dreams of “gravity-bound mice”).
But the whole Alan-reading-Ada’s-journals-in-college prologue doesn’t even match up with anything in Tron: Asterisk. Unless there’s a deleted scene or something. Like maybe they wanted to tease a steampunk historical Tron prequel, but decided to cut it after the novelization had been drafted so it’d be a surprise.
My only other theory was that Ada’s poems about her dreams were somehow a nod to that TV show project that Bruce Boxleitner was trying to get off the ground about a decade ago, Lantern City. But that’d be such a deep cut it’s barely even fan service. And would be even weirder to try to shoehorn in to an already seemingly superfluous prologue.
Even so, either way, my spouse has said they already want to draw fanart of Locke and his gear-toothed identity cog.
I am HERE for this new edition of the novelization and I will tell y'all EXCATLY what I think of it after I have devoured every word <3