As much as I enjoyed Tron Legacy and was looking forward to a follow up, Jared Leto still just gives me the ick and I don’t know how he continues getting roles.

If they are going to have the Tron universe spill into major cities on Earth, this will not be good IMO.

Are we going to have light cycles in downtown New York? Keep it in the system, man!

I don’t disagree with the basis. I interpreted the computer in the original Tron to be a SciFi chemical based supercomputer, with the laser as an input/output device. Digitizing a living mind into a computer, emulating it as software, then putting it back out into meatspace fit well with the general aesthetics.

Legacy kept everything mostly intact lorewise, up until the end with Quorra leaving, but it feels right and fit with the themes of the original.

I don’t know why, but just from watching trailers, the way Ares seems to handle the whole ‘programs and constructs leaving the computer’ thing feels off. Mostly the machines, it just feels so… out of place? I guess the franchise is just a cash grab now, like they’ve dropped the ongoing themes around a digital alternate world and fighting for a better way of life, just going straight for a low-hanging superhero SciFi knockoff.

I read the concept of it a few years ago, was hoping for more of a ‘fight back against the regime’ theme in line with the rest of the series. The idea of a trapped refugee program sneaking out of a hostile environment in an airgapped network by being 3d-printed into meatspace and physically moving to a better network would’ve been interesting.

I want this to be enjoyable. But I saw the recent trailer. And my stomach sank.