Ok, I did a forum search and found nothing on this. Forgive me if I missed it.


Anyone know where I can find these online to read (or download)?

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Kat Wrote:Well, don't keep the secret from the rest of us...

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It's a glitching mind-fry. I'm fond of saying Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run made more sense or that you could read it upside down and it'd make almost the same amount of sense.

The depiction of Alan? Wow. Just wow. Yeah, I know his circumstances in 2.0 suck even worse than his situation in Legacy (Flynn still ups and vanishes, but he's confined to a lab instead of the boardroom, Lora was killed by imperfect digitization), but we're talking a VERY dark depiction - "Ron the Death Eater" dark. However, if you're writing a Dark Side!Alan, then you're going to want to get your mitts on a copy because it shows off that side and its potential in the nastiest way possible.

Now, here's what I REALLY like about it:

1) It pulls massive amounts of deconstruction on the whole franchise. The opening scene is Jet (well, actually "Blue" Jet, but long story) hunkered down in the old arcade, virulently technophobic, shell shocked over all the lives he had to take and terrified that the computer world seems to be calling him back, controlling him somehow. Alan all but hauls Jet to a shrink, and we get that line that's in my sig.

It's an entire universe in there, one we created, but it's beyond us now. Really. It's outgrown us. You know, every time you shut off your computer...do you know what you're doing? Have you ever reformatted a hard drive? Deleted old software? Destroyed an entire universe?"

Holy. Shit. No one in the entire canon - not even the fanfic - goes there. Flynn Sr, canonically, treats that world like a game or some fascinating experiment until it bites him in the ass, and it looked like he had pretty much written off the Programs in favor of the Isos. (Probably not intentionally, but...) Sam seems to be rather jaded and uncaring about the Programs; after all, the Grid's denizens were a savage and treacherous lot. His "brother" was a megalomaniac who was into brainwashing and torture, the great hero turned into a digital Darth Vader that held a disc to his neck and nearly sliced his throat before thousands of Programs cheering for his messy death (and how good of a look did Sam actually get at Tronzler turning on Clu?), the Programs that were supposed to help turn out to be amoral creeps, and his father was a broken hermit trying to trap him in that shithole. In the fanfic, Users go there and they're surprisingly calm about the things that happen there, and gloss over the implications over an entire universe that humans made and treat with carelessness.

It gets even more twisted when "Jet" makes the return trip to cyberspace. He's in the right place at the wrong time, de-rezzes a commander, and is put in charge of the uprising against a resurrected MCP. However, it all falls apart partly because he isn't a born warrior. It gets a lot of Programs killed. So much for "User as hero and savior."

2) The character notes on Jet, Mercury, and Ma3a.

2.0 is a first-person shooter, not a Bioware RPG. the characterization is a little thin, even for franchise standards. We figure out Jet's impulsive, a bit lazy, doesn't have a lot of self-preservation instinct, had a troubled adolescence that he grew out of, and the relationship with Alan is rocky at best. But not a lot about motivation, growth, or what makes him tick. The comic is actually pretty good with that, showing off an artistic bent, a fear that his parents' marriage was a sham, his terror and eventual acceptance of being a User. That desire to be a hero, the idealistic white knight that risks his life for others. Y'know, the good stuff.

(Now, if only I could figure out how the meeting between Jet and Tronzler is going to work in this fusion timeline I've got going...Probably will be the second most uncomfortable family reunion ever.)

Mercury? Even less characterization. In-game had only about 5 places where she helped Jet, and in half of those, her memory was gone. We saw she was a badass (fighting off about 5 Z-lots to buy Ma3a, Byte, and Jet time to get to the exit port), cunning (convincing the Kernel to put Jet in the lightcycle rink instead of de-rezzing him outright), a little cold (pretty much waiting to see if Jet could survive the lightcycle rink before blasting him out, with the implication that if he couldn't survive that, he wasn't worth saving), sneaky (her weapon of choice is a backstabing weapon improvised from a lightcycle baton), and that she and Jet had a mutual attraction that was unfortunately star-crossed (and that the game didn't bother to develop - damn it!). So, while the comic doesn't give her much, it's still better than nothing.

Ma3a? Again, very little characterization, and that creepy little implication that she wasn't an ordinary AI, but built from what remained of Lora, didn't get any attention in game and REALLY needed developing. Monolith let it go to waste, but the comic has a delightfully twisted scene where Lora's face pops up on every terminal in the lab and starts accusing Alan of abandoning her to die among other unpleasant things before shooting him and framing Jet for it.

3) Clarence (or "Green" Jet) and Red Jet could give Dyson and Gorn some competition in the Mind Screw/Mind Rape departments. Clarence shows up and reality takes an extended coffee break. Red just settles for false memories and blistering lectures about what he finds rooting around in Blue Jet's head. Too good not to use. Hell, some of Red's tactics actually would suit Dyson's little house of horrors.

So, overall, don't read it for plot. Just use it as a good characterization resource and idea generator when writing for the universe.

Ah. I actually read the comic before playing the game as well. Even more of a mind-fryer. Made a bit more sense after playing the game, but not by much.

Well, if you're not a gamer, then go dig up a Let's Play. I'm a fan of Parlock's - he includes all the cutscenes, most emails (the full list is on Tron wiki), and is an obvious fan.

J Wrote:Ah. I actually read the comic before playing the game as well. Even more of a mind-fryer. Made a bit more sense after playing the game, but not by much. Well, if you're not a gamer, then go dig up a Let's Play. I'm a fan of Parlock's - he includes all the cutscenes, most emails (the full list is on Tron wiki), and is an obvious fan.

WOW, Thanks for the link. I will watch them tonight.

Kat Wrote: Thanks! I tried Googling once but just found a few vague plot synopses.

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There's a whole new school of ethics that would have to be invented. Ghost in the Machine's big question, though...Once I saw that question, I couldn't un-see it. And it was the comic that sent me into "I HAVE TO WRITE THIS GUY" when it came to the character of Jet. It's a very powerful thing to acknowledge, and to try and struggle with. I'm not sure Disney canon is going to take that route with Sam. order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill

Defrag might just be like quarterly housing assignments at university. The data's just shuffled around in a more efficient format.

A reformat? Ugh. That level of 2.0 was a nightmare. A red wall of death creeping ever closer, with the Zombie Apocalypse on your heels, and the ICPs throwing themselves at you and Ma3a in a suicidal, "taking you with me" charge. Meanwhile, Byte tries to get philosophical as the wall of death evaporates everything it touches and creeps in dangerously close...From a Program standpoint, it's probably a cross of tsunami and nuclear bomb. Anyone who can't evacuate fast enough killed in a nasty (but quick) fashion.

J Wrote:So, overall, don't read it for plot. Just use it as a good characterization resource and idea generator when writing for the universe.

I like that summary. The high concept part of the approach to the mechanics of the Tron universe is the part of the project I'm still happy with. I think some individual scenes work well. But the overall project and the path the story ended up taking to get there... not as much.

Honda Enoch Wrote:Artist that complain that their music, videos, drawings, ect are being downloaded for free need to think about it in a different light. Be happy that the fans want to hear, read, see your work. Not everyone can afford to buy this kind of stuff. I myself have been out of work for about 2 years. So does that mean I should do without? That I should stop being a Tron fan because I can not read the novels? What about videos of people playing the video games? I do not like playing video games, so I am thankful someone made a video of them so I can get the story. Same with Uprising. They don't air anymore. I missed them all when they were on TV. They are not available on DVD. So I should just miss out? From your comment of you saying you did not get paid by Disney to do this, it sounds like you did it because you are a Tron fan and love the story idea and wanted to share it with other Tron fans. So that is what is happening. Tron fans are sharing it with other Tron fans. Like it or not, this is the digital age. Every form of media should be free to all.

You're not just downloading these books. You're providing links for everyone else on this forum. I'd prefer you do not do that.

These books still need to be paid for. The debt to Disney to produce these still exists. I'm sorry you are out of work. I was out of work longer when I produced this series. It happens, it's horrible and yes, you go without pirating. I absolutely expect that. We all make sacrifices. At a time when Tron was being buried by it's owners, I made my sacrifices so that there could be official Tron material available for Tron fans.

You say you had scoured the internet to find these? Why didn't you just write me? I'm on Facebook and Twitter and even on these forums. I am very easy to find and I have given away many copies of this book to fellow Tron fans just to share.

As you say: This is the digital era. The creators of almost anything you might want are only an email away. Asking is the correct approach. Not just taking whatever you want because you can.

Again: Please remove the links.