#Tron: identity

[mewtwowarrior]

I couldn't find the Tron: Identity main menu music uploaded anywhere, so I uploaded it!

The sound is pretty faint, so you might have to turn your sound up a bit!

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Ada from TRON: Identity

[teh-kittykat]

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[where-dreamers-go]

TRON: Catalyst - Official Trailer

"TRON: Catalyst pulls you back into the world of Disney’s TRON to battle multiple opposing factions in the latest imaginative story from Bithell Games (Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular, TRON: Identity). TRON: Catalyst is an all-new story-driven, isometric action-adventure game, set in the immersive and diverse locations of the Arq Grid introduced in TRON: Identity.

Play as Exo, a highly resilient and resourceful program wielding an unexpected power known as the Glitch, gaining strength and abilities which the overlords of the Arq Grid’s crumbling society seek to bring under control. Ride Light Cycles, engage in Identity Disc combat, and more as you’re relentlessly pursued through the city and beyond by Conn, a malevolent program with an agenda of his own, while uncovering more about the glitches that threaten the stability of this world.

TRON: Catalyst is coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch in 2025."

[anhilliator1]

Don't think Ares will be that good (hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised), but I do like how the aesthetic of the Grid changes depending on who made it.

The ENCOM Grid is low-poly and very simple, both an indication of its age, but also makes sense given that this one was likely the only one created by an artificial intelligence, the MCP.

The Tron System Grid is full of sleek shapes and glowing lines, looking vastly different - Kevin Flynn created this Grid as a mirror of the real world, and probably would have taken into account aesthetic considerations.

The Arq Grid is very similar, and this makes sense - it was also created by Kevin, and thus shares many of the aesthetic choices. And yet, it's also evolved on its own, with elements not seen in the Tron System Grid - much like the ISOs that inhabit it.

The Dillinger Systems Grid clearly takes elements from both the Tron System Grid and the ENCOM Grid, likely being a copy of the Tron System Grid created by the ones who made the MCP. It's similar to the latter, but harsher, and has Dillinger's branding all over it if Ares's triangular Identity Disc being engraved with their name means anything - something I suspect is because this Grid was made for a profitable purpose (perhaps military?)

[tjjonesartwork]

Detective Query from TRON: identity

[helloblobbyblobfish]

But now, we have Non-Binary ISOs like Cass. And no one seems to care.

So hey, gender binary seems to have been a Flynn thing, not all Programs (I wonder if that means tron, who comes from another Grid, has different morals than beck on a pure cultural level. that would be nice to explore.)

[thegridisforeveryone]

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[what-bot]

Me: Oh I’m SO HYPED it’s a great time to be a Tron fan

Friend: Oh because a new movie’s coming out?

Me: Movie?? No, Tron Catalyst

[traceytonight]

Tracey rambles about Tron Ares again

Tron Ares fills me with so much dread, each passing day is like a countdown to the death of a franchise I care so much about.

The producer, title & main character, is literally Joker Morbius alleged pedophile since the early 2000s himself Jared Leto. That alone ruins the movie for me, and yet every following bullet point makes everything about and around it so much worse.

-Premise is explicitly "What if the Grid came to the real world".

NO, the interesting part of the series is THE GRID, where all of the deeply meditative commentary about our world and visually interesting splendor is supposed to be! Yes we had the lingering plot thread of Quorra coming to our world, however;

-Nothing directly tied to Tron Legacy is specifically being followed up

So no seeing where Sam Flynn could have taken Encom, no Quorra adjusting to our world, No Edward Dillinger Jr scheming with the resurrected MCP; But most disrespectfully of all, they didn't even bother to get Bruce Boxleitnter back, THE GUY WHO PLAYS TRON (and Alan Bradly & Rinzler). The one guy who actively loved this series and campaigned for a Third Tron film for over a decade, and previously Tron Legacy for even longer. But you know who they are bringing back?

-Kevin Flynn is back

THE GUY WHO FUCKING DIED IN THE LAST MOVIE. Undermining the noble sacrifice that was integral to the core themes of the film.

And just today we got this:

This is so far from an advancement design wise of the Light Cycle from either film. None of the simple shape language of the original. None of the sleek visual melding of human & technology of Legacy. While the light cycle was always cool for being a futuristic video game-ass motorcycle, its was just one of the multitude of visual elements that served the thematic purposes of Tron flawlessly.

Meanwhile, this not only physically separates the driver from the cycle, they further emphasize it through all the little gaps where there were none on either prior design. They so easily could've had the red line on Ares connect into the obviously aligned part of the bike.

Even if this is meant to show the separation of the programs from the grid for some thematic element we're unaware of at the moment, we're already going to be getting a lot of that considering the movie takes place in an average ass city.

Also, to be truly nitpicky, it looks really uncomfortable to sit in & I don't like all the added greebles.

To circle back around, what I really hate about the cast, besides the obvious one, is that there are a lot of actors who I think will work extremely well in the world of Tron. Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters? Inspired casting choices.

Meanwhile production wise we're literally taking David Fincher's collaborator trifecta. Jeff Cronenweth (Cinematographer), Tyler Nelson (Editor), and Trent Reznor (Composer, backed up by Nine Inch Nails) all worked on The Social Network, another one of my favorite films. Jeff is literally the son of Blade Runner's cinematographer, Nelson was co-editor on The Batman, a film with incredible pacing thanks to their hardwork, and while I'm not the most familiar with Reznor's full body of work, I've sincerely liked everything I've heard and think in conjunction with Jeff & Tyler he will make something fantastic and fitting for the tone of this film.

However, the screenplay is done by the writer of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, and is being handled by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Choices that feel at odds with the prestige praise I was just handing out a paragraph ago.

Theres so many good elements that are eclipsed by its central glaring protagonist, seeming lack of the interesting setting/designs or integral thematic elements that I look for in Tron, and lack of expectation regarding the choice of director & writers.

Because my two greatest fears are not about if the movie is awful and destroys the franchise as I'm expecting it could, it's either:

What if the movie is genuinely good? Well acted and performed, somehow actually has the same level of philosophical inquiry that Legacy & Identity have? How am I gonna face that reality with the enormous horrific issue starring in it?

What if the movie is bad in everyway that I think it will be, but does financially and/or critically better than the first two? The franchise is not killed again, but revives and bases everything going forward around this awful outlier in the series?

Unless this movie fails so horrifically that Disney wants to scrub it from existence, as they tend to do, the future of any Tron media will undeniably be forced to cohere itself to the existence of Ares.

If you want something that actually expands on the musings and universe of Tron, play Tron Identity. A game so lovingly crafted for fans of those elements of Tron as a connected series. And I know this factually, as the writer of the game itself (who also created Thomas Was Alone) watched my twitch stream of it and confirmed my ramblings about the deep seeded lore and intent of design of the TREES that appear in the game. Only one example of the incredible attention to detail the game delivers on. Plus its also getting a sequel that unlike Ares, I'm awaiting with bated breath.

[encom-official]

Tron: Uprising & The Circuitry of The Grid

A sorely under appreciated aspect of Tron Uprising is the backgrounds & environments. They expand what, at least to me, The Grid is & can be. Especially Cyrus, & the outlands, feel remarkably spiritual & otherworldly in a way that is genuinely mind blowing to me.

If you didn’t gasp when they walked down that big ass colorful tunnel I don’t know what to say to you. It implies an unseen depth to the environment & ecosystem of The Grid that we just can’t see, & is objectively gorgeous.

Tron Uprising also introduces grid bugs as a concept into the canon again since the original movie. We don’t know exactly how the food chain or animals of The Grid work, but we know things like weather still exist, & grid bugs seem like a natural phenomenon.

This is my favorite shot from the whole show. It is absolutely beautiful, & to me, gives a sense of scale to how…massive The Grid is. It feels like a force of nature but at the same time unequivocally mechanical. We’re used to stories in the Tron universe taking place in sectors & cities, but the environment is bursting with unique ideas of natural technology, perfectly encapsulating the metaphor of The Grid as a representation of the internet, or the inner workings of a computer, which can be seen as a web of sorts. A giant interlocking system just like our world.

The Automata are a step in the right direction I think. They are the same type of weirdness that I want to see from the nature of The Grid, alien & spontaneous as ISOs are supposed to be. I would love to see their habitats, & the different biomes present in The Grid.

[laqueus]

i'm rewatching tron uprising again for the first time in a while and I'd forgotten just how... graphic??? some of the violence is

holes punched in chests (multiple occasions)! a bisected guard dragging themself across the floor & trailing digital gore! a (failed) public execution where the prisioners are being pulled apart by lightcycles! dyson's caved-in skull! tron's entire fucking torture scene that was genuinely harrowing to watch! let's carve out his eye! let's carve out tron's fucking eye!

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Cass from TRON: Identity

[wynandcore]

So like. Was there ever a real explanation of what ‘the ISO wars’ were? Orrrrr

[where-dreamers-go]

I finally got around to finish playing Tron: Identity and I think I did all right.

I found it overall quite fascinating, love the soundtrack, and have a soft spot for Cass.

Also, I just really like the main menu.

[shes-an-iso]

Anyway, I caved

(and it was so worth it 😭)