CB2001 Wrote: Abraxas V Wrote:CB2001 - Wow, brother. Nice points. I am sold on your viewpoint. That is why I put quotations around derez and dead, because I did not want to come across like I knew for sure what happened. The only thing I cannot buy even after your nicely done rebuttal is the connection with the cartoon and movie as is. If TRON was corrupted as you say he was, and I believe you are right, then he would have become Rinzler RIGHT THERE. Not after training a new Tron. I can buy your reasoning, but not Disneys. Thank you brother for clarification. VERY interesting. Thank you for your kind words. And you're very welcome for the clarification. But there is another possibility that is just as likely, and possibly wouldn't surprise me that is going to happen as Disney would probably go this route: the story could be starting off pre-CLU coup. TRON could be looking for "another TRON", or possibly training more than one program for the system (it taking place somewhere in the middle of the TRON: Betrayal story, due to a lot of the problems occurring on the Grid, including Grid Bugs to the uneasy alliance of programs and ISOs alike) to have as backup due to a lot of the things that happened. Then CLU's Coup occurs (as we see in TRON: Evolution and in the flashback in TRON: Legacy), resulting in TRON being reprogrammed into Rinzler, and leading to the Uprising with TRON's successors (the programs he was training to become security programs). And if the series ever has an end, it'd probably lead to showing those programs either being derezzed (be in final fights instead of being captured, being derezzed in Disc Wars or Lightcycle battles) or "rectified" (the reprogramming to become one of CLU's army), leading to the Uprising failing and eventually leading the Grid to be the way as we saw it in T:L.

Even though as far as we know The Grid is "sandboxed" from the outside world, there's always the possibility that the failed resistance manage to flee to other systems - I would have thought most probably with Flynn's help. The programs don't necessarily have to die or be subjugated. Perhaps one of Clu's reasons for going "out there" was to finally start hunting down the programs that escaped his quest for perfection