I pretty much always disregard “word of God” pronouncements from the owners of a media property in regard to what’s canon.
Largely because (claimed) authorial intent mostly just doesn’t matter to me compared to what I actually see in the source material
But this goes at least triple for anything owned by Disney.
because i just know whatever they say publicly has gone through layers of review by their PR teams, and is probably chosen for maximum audience appeal and/or likelihood to get you to buy something
And as such it makes no goddamn actual sense
for just one example. What in the hell could even be meant by saying “Beck from Tron: Uprising is seventeen years old”
what are “years” in his world. what does any specific number of them mean, for entities that are created fully formed and don’t seem to age and grow. How does the time dilation relative to the “real world” factor into this.
this makes less sense than if word of god claimed that Beck owns seventeen dachshunds
I don’t even write Uprising fic, I don’t even care about this one way or another, I’m a 1982 fan
And all I can say is I’m thankful Disney doesn’t bother to announce any of its dumbass headcanons about the original movie. that shit is OURS by now
<3
I can accept Beck is a teenager based on his actions, awkwardness, and willingness to fight anyone up to and including (false) gods. I was that kind of teenager, when my friends needed someone in their corner.
I do not accept anything said by Disney or its subsidiaries as any kind of truth, and instead observe it with the same kind of disgust I do a fly trying to land on my food. Giving Beck a concrete age makes no sense, and makes even less sense in the context of the franchise - he can’t be seventeen, time doesn’t work like that.
And I especially do not accept anything they say about the Tron franchise.
That’s not theirs any more. It’s ours.