Anonymous: <p>I don't remember who said it but, many years ago, there was a review of Tron Legacy that stated it felt more like the final act of a trilogy that doesn't have a second movie. It would be like making the first lord of the rings movie and then skipping directly to Return of the King while having an exposition scene to explain everything that happened in The Two Towers.</p>

Huh! Yeah I think that’s a good observation.

Probably explains why they tried to fill the gap there with things like the Betrayal comic and the Uprising series. Which were great in many ways of their own, but too different to fit well into the role of “middle part of the series.”