Agreed and disappointed that they didn't do more for beck and paige cause it could have been so much better with them in love and emotional it could have been to along with Flynn and Alan 1 yori and Lora prime in it
Agreed I have a theory on what happened tho right so in legacy Quorra said a couple of programs saved her life right? I believe it was actually Mara and Zed. Ok ok maybe I should start from the beginning at the end of season one we see Clu flying into the city, and let's assume season 2 happened right what would happen, I believe Clu would put in a big form of martial law and a lot of crazy stuff would go down, the place on lockdown and this new resistance starts fighting against them but they have to do it in secret because stuff is crazy. And bunch of crazy shit happens along the way including Dyson, Tesler and Pavel getting derezzed, two of them probably by Clu himself, Tesler because he got in the way and started a power struggle, and Dyson because he was terrified of Tron and wanted to defect, at some point Paige finds out Beck is the renegade causing more tension between the two, then the other main characters find out and after some anger argue whether or not they can trust him anymore. At some point Tron is given an ultimatum to either protect Beck and turn into Rinzler, or save himself and let him get derezzed, Tron will choose to save Beck and turn himself over to Clu, forcing the main characters to go underground and at some point Quorra shows up and eventually sorts out all the bad blood with Paige and from then we get three outcomes going from amazing to absolutely heartbreaking in all three the renegade and Paige are separated from Mara and Zed so they can save Quorra and help her escape 1 Clu sends Pavel to take out the renegade, while Mara and Zed help Quorra get out of the city because they're less known that the renegade, renegade and Paige take out Pavel and Quorra escapes and everyone gets with everyone their supposed to and they all live happily ever after 2. Same as the last except one the teams die 3. Clu sends Rinzler after the renegade leading to the renegades demise, and sends Pavel to take to take out Quorra he manages to take out Mara and Zed but Qourra gets away. I hate to say it but the third one is most likely but I really really want to hope for option one because Beck and Paige is the single best relationship ever and you can't change my mind about that, but anyways I'm super pissed they never got a second season so that's just what I think happened next
18:10 A little hindsight on why "people weren't interested" in Uprising: it is the belief of myself and many others online that Disney was insistent on this show being marketed to a demographic that it ultimately shouldn't have been focused on. Being on DisneyXD, the show was SUPPOSED to be aimed for the young 8-12 year old demographic, but its mature story, visual presentation, and concepts actually did better with older audiences. Unfortunately, however, Disney refused to alter their marketing approach to appeal to the proper audience, and instead shifted the new show to later night time slot (expecting a show on a premium cable channel at a MIDNIGHT time slot to do well with 10 year olds is insane) which made it harder for people to catch. Mid-season in the series, they randomly put the show on hiatus, barely advertising the show at all at this point, only to bring the remaining episodes back without much fanfare at continuing bad time slots. To add more insult to injury, no merchandise was ever made aside from a soundtrack and a junior novel, so no chance for fans to support the series that way either. There isn't even a physical copy of the series to buy. So TL;DR, thanks to Disney's pisspoor management and marketing, they screwed the series when it actually could've done quite well with an older demographic and some semblance of merch.
Very well said. This makes me think that Disney should've had it's own adult oriented channel, like how Turner, the company that owns Cartoon Network, has Adult Swim. Tron: Uprising was just catered to the wrong audience imo. But apparently Disney has too much of a kid-friendly agenda to make things more "adult."
@@davisharper6704 Funny you mention adult swim... here's something you may find interesting: a year or so ago, before Disney+ had launched and Uprising was put there, I had actually asked Jason Demarco, the program manager for toonami/adult swim, whether he'd ever tried to acquire Uprising, since animated shows for older audiences did well under his watch... And he surprised me by telling me he had actually tried to make that happen back when Uprising was cancelled, but Disney said no. It's too bad too, since toonami actually had a good history of funding/bringing back projects, maybe Uprising could've been one of those. 😕
wow. where i live i first watched it around 8 or 10pm just sitting and watching disney so i guess it was a good tactic - downside being disney being not so popular aside from children and teens at all out here
@@adriannaranjo4397 To be fair a lot of fans including myself was actively trying, TRYING, to watch the show as it was airing but Disney XD was practically sabotaging the show by moving the schedule every week that it became incredibly hard to know when new episodes were coming out, when they were airing them and what time it was on because they stopped advertising it. Didn't help that they stopped airing episodes weekly, to biweekly to whenever the hell they felt like it. It's such a crying shame.
Uprising did so much- I mean SO MUCH, for the franchise. The world building that took place in one season was incredible compared to what Legacy offered. To me, Uprising was the first step that would've guided the franchise to become a powerhouse today. It breaks my heart to see how Disney treated something that changed my life as a kid
Can't have fans spending their money on Tron when they needed to see their dollars go to Star Wars in order to justify the enormous investment Disney made there. How well did that work out...
I think he simply misread or misunderstood some information as he is learning about the lore and continuity of the franchise as a whole. He likely mistook a portion of the write up explaining Legacy’s plot as if it was explaining the series as a whole. Mistaking Abrams as the director was likely a situation where he saw the director’s name flash on screen but wasn’t actually paying much attention and just assumed it said JJ.
This and Motorcity were the most slickest and stylistic cartoon Disney has ever distributed (mainly thanks to Robert Valley) , it's a damn shame that the company would just can them like that .
I remember I saw this on Disney XD, and wow! The animation looks super nice,like,almost virtualize,and yeah motor city was also cool as well,and I can’t believe those 2 masterpieces got canceled,*sigh!*, I really dislike when good action cartoons get canceled,
The shortened, incomplete run of Tron : Uprising was an absolute crime. That show was _brilliant_ , and I want more. I’m going to have to rewatch those 19 episodes, again.
I'll never forget watching Uprising's last episode and there was this tiny red piece of corruption in Tron's code and I was squeaking in excitement because I wanted more. There was so much potential, and so many ways it could go, but hen it got canceled. Biggest disappointment ever
@@gracekim1998 Now that made me wonder about Beck's fate in the end of Uprising if there would be a second season. Does Beck dies, or went into hiding? Because he never appeared in Legacy
@@Isaac-gh5ku another reason Disney may have canceled it. The path beck was on was dark and he was either going to die or be defeated and forced into excile. Neither seem appealing to Disney but I would have loved it.
Not advertising a show is also a good way to kill it. I only found Uprising do to a friend wanting me to see Motorcity. Then moving it to midnight after hiatus with out advertising did not help. Then merchandise I wanted Uprising things, but all there is is the soundtrack, and that came out after the show ended. The first ep is now on D+ it was on youtube, and Itunes free when it was not.
You, Negative Legend, were actually the one who got me to watch the entire Tron series, including Uprising. Thank you, seriously, for introducing me to this spectacular show. I just finished watching it on Disney + a few weeks ago. :)
Have you had the opportunity to play both Tron: Evolution (either on PC, Xbox360, or PS3) as well as TRON 2.0 on PC (however the Xbox (the first Xbox) version TRON 2.0 Killer App is the console equivalent)?? Both are awesome games. The visual styles of both are amazing. Like the original’82 film, TRON 2.0’s visuals still look great today simply because the art style transcends the graphical limitations of the time and actually would only need better character faces/models to be considered “remastered”
@@3xpc8libur it feels like what Disney wanted to do was kill it off because the movie didn't take off like they wanted, but the show was high quality so they would air it when the fewest number of views could see it in order smother the flames per say before it could grow beyond whatever plans they originally had for it if the movie would have done better. This was before they had the MCU and Star Wars fully in their clutches to mold and milk.
One of the storyboarders on the show had mentioned that the last episode originally was supposed to be TWO episodes. There's an storyboard animatic floating around somewhere with a deleted scene where Clu meets up with Tesler and punishes him for his failures up to that point. From what I understand, it still would've ended on the cliffhanger of Clu's forces vs. all the Rebels, but it wouldn't have been as rushed.
Actually, TRON: Legacy is a sequel, while TRON: Uprising is set between the two films, here's the timeline 2010 - TRON: Legacy 1989/1990 - TRON: Uprising 1989 - TRON: Evolution 1985/1988 - TRON: Evolution - Battle Grids 1983 - TRON: Betrayal 1982 - TRON
@@DawnTreaderPlaysEDO according to Steven Lisberger(creator of TRON) and Joseph Kosinski(director of TRON: Legacy), they're not canon 2006-2008 - TRON: The Ghost in the Machine 2004 - TRON 2.0: Killer App (GBA) 2003 - TRON 2.0 1982 - TRON
9:46 "Beck manages to wonder into a Zip file" I sprayed water from my nose while drinking LMAO! Thank you SO MUCH for covering TRON: Uprising. It was by far my favourite cartoon (non-anime), and it really feels like Disney gave it a huge budget, but no chance to succeed. Motorcity also got the same treatment (please cover that one too).
This show will always have a very special place in my heart, because it was one of my best friends shows, and he sadly passed away in a car accident, and so I watched it after in his honour and ended up loving it too. Miss you Brody, Rest In Peace.
@Derek Hottenstein Are you kidding? Have you not seen the disintegration of the fanbase, Solo losing money, RoS not making nearly what it should, internal strife a Lucasfilm, etc?
@Derek Hottenstein It's a ruined franchise, it's pretty much being carried by a show and the comics at this point considering the entire new trilogy was not up to par, at all.
*Kosinski He was also slated to direct a reboot of The Black Hole, but that fell long ago.
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I had to immediately check online if Abrams had anything to do with Tron, and... nope. That's a totally weird mistake for someone who says Legacy is his favorite movie.
Honestly, Disney is doing all these revivals of shows, I don’t know why they’re not reviving shows that they canceled but have developed passionate fanbases since. Other streaming services should be doing that too frankly.
The uncanny valley effect in Tron: Legacy actually works better than if the CGI was totally photo realistic. It is a computer generated world, after all. I really liked Tron: uprising, and I wish I could find the entire series somewhere. The things it expanded on beyond the movie were fascinating, and its art style was fantastic.
I wouldn't go that far. Every other program looks like a real person except for Clu, so he stands out. I appreciate what they were trying to do but better than a real actor? I don't think so. It was a good attempt that comes up a little short. But everything else is great.
I think this is the only show I’ve watched that I was actually upset it was canceled. Everything else I was somewhat satisfied with the ending, but here? Nope, still upset.
You are not alone. I’m a 50 year old kid and I think Tron is by far one of the coolest franchises ever. Legacy is epic, and Uprising is amazing. Thanks for the vid. Well done.
I'm so glad to see that many years later, there's a dedicated fanbase for this series. There's so many unfinished plot points that it drives me insane. Why would they just dump a masterpiece like this? It was ambitious, experimental, explored many different themes, and most importantly of all, was engaging throughout all of it while having a more mature theme! It's not fair that the mistakes of the parent corporation have to be given as burdens to innocent shows and killed off because of it. But look, many years later this show has a bigger following than ever before! Unfortunately, I bet if we asked now, Disney would just find a way to screw it up, but could they at least just give us one movie to tie everything up? Like Serenity did for Firefly years after its cancellation? Just bridge the gap between this show and the beginning of Tron: Legacy, please.
This show is so special to me. My family and I would sit down to watch a new episode every week. We were so excited for season 2. We were very disappointed.
I honestly enjoyed my time in Tron Evolution. Learning to be a security program from Tron and canonically being called Anon was delightful. The combat was about as you would expect it to be for a Tron game. A lot of flipping and ID throwing. It felt good, though some of the platforming was janky at times. I don't know I've always loved the concept of Tron. Like peeking into a world of digital beings gets my imagination sparking.
You mentioned Motorcity and ngl, totally derailed my thoughts about the good good show Tron for a hot second. I love Motorcity, utterly adore it. I’m.... fairly certain you haven’t done a video on it? Would make my YEAR if you did. In the meantime, thanks for the reminder + motivation to watch Uprising! That one club scene from Legacy lives rent free in my brain, so it’s always good to get some more slick n sleek techno-dystopia content :)
@@silvertemplar8061 They got the right people first time around. I doubt any next time will be so lucky. The amount of talent in Hollywood can barely fill a thimble.
@@spritemon98 damn skippy. the 40th anniversary is in two years, i'm looking forward to getting the Bluray. i bought the 30th but it was the same as the 20th so i gave it to a friend.
The show is was so damn good unfortunately I watched it much later in life, but still. The story, the characters, the art - never seen something so unique - and likely music (is has been awhile) were so damn good! Gotta love Polygon Pictures they really do a great job 😆
I am making my son (who is 4) a TRON identity disc out of el wire and a frisbee....he calls himself ‘Morgan Flynn!’, and wants to watch it over and over. There is love out there. It just may need to mature. I believe that people will catch up. Sometimes it’s just timing in life. Critics hated ‘theThing’ when it came out- I loved it like you and I both love legacy and uprising. Now ‘the Thing’ is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. The Tron universe is very interesting and it your love for it will be vindicated.
I dressed up as a program for Halloween when I was 12. Had to scrap the costume together myself with black clothes and reflective strips. My dad made me a disc, and tbh, it was one of my better Halloween costumes
OH SHIT, I thought the show ended with Able's death!! Welp, time to go complete my childhood in a sense. Then probably replay all the tron levels from kingdom hearts 2 and 3d and cry a little. We'll see.
Wait, there are Tron levels in Kingdom Hearts 2? I started playing that game last month but kind of lost interest because the beginning was soooo slow. Looks like I know what I'll be doing here in the near future.
@@octalicious It's not called TRON, though, sadly. The game calls it Space Paranoids, and yes, the OG Tron dude is there, as it follows that story. Whereas in a later KH game, Dream Drop Distance, the Tron world is titled The Grid, and seems to pick up sometime after Legacy, due to it featuring Rinzler and Clue.
Considering Tron 3 was confirmed to be in the works, Tron Uprising may have a chance to make a comeback on Disney Plus like they did with Star Wars the Clone Wars. We need to see the payoff involving Beck being framed as a terrorist, Beck and Paige's relationship, Paige's redemption and obvious built up betrayal, and the final payoff that explains how Tron became Rinzler, as well as the final battle against Tesler. We also need to see the explanation as to how Tron fully became Rinzler and what exactly happened to Beck, Paige, and his friends before or during the events of Tron Legacy.
Super special thank you to Rusty Quill for sponsoring this video! Don't forget to try out Stellar Firma at Rusty Quill: rustyquill.com/stellar-firma/ Quick thing: J.J. Abrams didn't actually have anything to do with the movie. I was thinking of the Star Trek interviews and there's interviews comparing directors who reboot franchises and I mixed J.J. Abrams and Joseph Kosinski. Also, the game and movie came out the same year. The movie wasn't technically based on the game. There were people who played the game first and then watched the movie which lead to reports of people thinking that one was based off the other and vice versa.
In my country Tron Uprising and Motorcity where never run on Disney XD, but Motorcity was available on the Disney wbsite until 2016 then it just passed away and no one ever knew it even existed... so Tron Uprising. It makes me so sad.
Still one of my favourite movies too. Every point You’ve made I totally agree with. - This show was wonderful. It’s my all time favourite cartoons Disney has ever produced. It deserves more credit than it’s gotten and its awesome animation, stylization of the TRON world and it’s overall story and feel still make me giddy with excitement, as well as the feeling of untold misery for its unjust cancellation. - It’s such an inspiration for me, that I consider it the prime inspiration for my own scifi novels that I’ve been creating. - I love this show. Please give it support. it’s well animated, it’s well voiced, it’s music is phenomenal. And it’s, just... beautiful.
You gotta believe in yourself Grace. I believe in you even though I'm a stranger online Id love to see a cool continuation!! Wether writing form or Animated form
Tron: Legacy is my favorite movie too! I’ve never owned an identity disc, but I do have this really cool Lego version of the iconic lightcycle race with Rinzler.
Dude I remember watching this show and loving it. I wished I lived there so badly. It was so dang cool and really tickled my techie love for all things high-tech and futuristic.
I just saw tron uprising a week ago not knowing anything about it and holy crap that was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Still need to patch that plot hole on what happened to Tron.
Idk when I subscribed to you and idk why I got a random notification but Tron and Tron Legacy and Tron Uprising are some of my favourite Movies and show
This movie... Lol I watched this when I was 8 years old, and ever since then I’ve been obsessed with it. It just hurts my heart knowing that it just didn’t get a lot of love from a lot of people. This movie, story line, idea is really incredible. It deserved so much more! But hey, at least there are still some fans out there ;) Thank you for the great video, too!
I adore this show and I adore Tron Legacy. I really, really hope Disney decides to continue this series on Disney+ and hopefully we do see that sequel to Tron Legacy. Also I'm sure you're aware but LEGO Ideas released a Tron Legacy set that was very popular and sold really well. It's honestly one of my favorite sets LEGO has ever produced.
19:57 The game you were referring to was Pong from 1976. Steven Lisberger original thought was to make this an animated film. Maybe that's why the animated series looked so good? So it wasn't based on a game, more that it inspired the idea of a world inside computers. I was 14 years old when TRON came out and it blew my mind so I know how you felt when you saw your TRON. Oh and the arcade game that came out after this movie was amazing for its day. Especially the light cycle level. I'd give anything for a well preserved game. Well that and and a Pinbot or Adams Family pinball. Console gaming is fun but I feel sorry for those who never had the benefit of the corrupting influence of the rogue' s gallery of characters found hanging around inside. Different times!
Sucks that this show got replaced by show’s like avengers assemble. I wouldn’t have a problem with that show if the animation didn’t look so cheap looking.
The TRON universe is one of the franchises that I love the most and TRON LEGACY is one of my favorite movies. I hope the new movie is going to be fantastic!
I am too tired at the moment to make a long, properly written comment, but for what it's worth: I watched the original Tron when I was a kid, and promptly forgot it. I was too young. I later experienced the game Tron 2.0, and was enthralled. The world building was incredible to me, and the experience continues to stick with me today. I hated Tron Legacy. I honestly believe this is because of my familiarity with Tron 2.0, which was far less philosophical and had already accomplished the intriguing world design. I rediscovered the original Tron, loved it, and opened up a bit more to Legacy. I still don't like it, but I at least understand why it went in the direction it did. I loved Tron Uprising. It still didn't have the world building I was looking for, but it made up for that with its strong character development. I have little hope for a third Tron movie. Disney in general has been getting worse with each release, and I doubt they'll give the franchise the world building it deserves. I'd love to see continuations of Uprising and 2.0, but I'd rather it be by someone who isn't Disney.
In first place: I loved your english. I can understan everything you said. 2nd place: I loved the movie and the esthetic. I have little toy that came into a "kinder surprise" and I saw the trailer of TRON: UPRISING in my dvd... I was crazy. I can't belive it. I can't see it for a long time until netflix put it in their catalog, and watched the whole serie. When it finished... everything changed in my life. From that they until now, TRON has become in my perfect visual reference for everything Cyberpunk I do.
AAAAAAAAH, you're opening up some old wounds! As someone who's a HUGE Tron fan from the 80's, I LOVED the second movie, and this cartoon was, indeed, AMAZING! They really opened up and expanded the world of Tron in a way that a movie wouldn't really be able to.
After a long time, I found this series in Disney Hotstar app.. Watched the entire episodes in two days, apart from my other tasks.. I'm really addicted to the graphics, colors, detailing and sound effects.. One of the Best!!!
i remember being really disappointed by the movie.... i loved the trailer, the music, how it looked and all... but nothing beyond the aesthetic really grabbed me. the characters were boring, the plot gave me nothing to invest on. and then i saw the trailer for this show. god, i loved the look of it. i thought it was amazing, something i had never seen before... but the movie left me so disappointed that i didnt really give the show a chance (also, i was watching less tv and spending more time on the internet, so theres that). now, looking at it, knowing the plot, im interested again.
One of my favorite shows. It was so cool . An interesting and unique world that built upon the films but also had its own original stories.The style seemed weird but it fits. It was interesting having beck be the main character and seeing things from a new perspective
A criminally underrated franchise.
Your a criminally underrated franchise?
ChaosQrow didn’t see the typo. Thanks
Agreed and disappointed that they didn't do more for beck and paige cause it could have been so much better with them in love and emotional it could have been to along with Flynn and Alan 1 yori and Lora prime in it
I agree , I really liked the music especially
Agreed I have a theory on what happened tho right so in legacy Quorra said a couple of programs saved her life right? I believe it was actually Mara and Zed. Ok ok maybe I should start from the beginning at the end of season one we see Clu flying into the city, and let's assume season 2 happened right what would happen, I believe Clu would put in a big form of martial law and a lot of crazy stuff would go down, the place on lockdown and this new resistance starts fighting against them but they have to do it in secret because stuff is crazy. And bunch of crazy shit happens along the way including Dyson, Tesler and Pavel getting derezzed, two of them probably by Clu himself, Tesler because he got in the way and started a power struggle, and Dyson because he was terrified of Tron and wanted to defect, at some point Paige finds out Beck is the renegade causing more tension between the two, then the other main characters find out and after some anger argue whether or not they can trust him anymore. At some point Tron is given an ultimatum to either protect Beck and turn into Rinzler, or save himself and let him get derezzed, Tron will choose to save Beck and turn himself over to Clu, forcing the main characters to go underground and at some point Quorra shows up and eventually sorts out all the bad blood with Paige and from then we get three outcomes going from amazing to absolutely heartbreaking in all three the renegade and Paige are separated from Mara and Zed so they can save Quorra and help her escape 1 Clu sends Pavel to take out the renegade, while Mara and Zed help Quorra get out of the city because they're less known that the renegade, renegade and Paige take out Pavel and Quorra escapes and everyone gets with everyone their supposed to and they all live happily ever after 2. Same as the last except one the teams die 3. Clu sends Rinzler after the renegade leading to the renegades demise, and sends Pavel to take to take out Quorra he manages to take out Mara and Zed but Qourra gets away. I hate to say it but the third one is most likely but I really really want to hope for option one because Beck and Paige is the single best relationship ever and you can't change my mind about that, but anyways I'm super pissed they never got a second season so that's just what I think happened next
18:10 A little hindsight on why "people weren't interested" in Uprising: it is the belief of myself and many others online that Disney was insistent on this show being marketed to a demographic that it ultimately shouldn't have been focused on. Being on DisneyXD, the show was SUPPOSED to be aimed for the young 8-12 year old demographic, but its mature story, visual presentation, and concepts actually did better with older audiences. Unfortunately, however, Disney refused to alter their marketing approach to appeal to the proper audience, and instead shifted the new show to later night time slot (expecting a show on a premium cable channel at a MIDNIGHT time slot to do well with 10 year olds is insane) which made it harder for people to catch. Mid-season in the series, they randomly put the show on hiatus, barely advertising the show at all at this point, only to bring the remaining episodes back without much fanfare at continuing bad time slots.
To add more insult to injury, no merchandise was ever made aside from a soundtrack and a junior novel, so no chance for fans to support the series that way either. There isn't even a physical copy of the series to buy.
So TL;DR, thanks to Disney's pisspoor management and marketing, they screwed the series when it actually could've done quite well with an older demographic and some semblance of merch.
Very well said. This makes me think that Disney should've had it's own adult oriented channel, like how Turner, the company that owns Cartoon Network, has Adult Swim. Tron: Uprising was just catered to the wrong audience imo. But apparently Disney has too much of a kid-friendly agenda to make things more "adult."
@@davisharper6704 Funny you mention adult swim... here's something you may find interesting: a year or so ago, before Disney+ had launched and Uprising was put there, I had actually asked Jason Demarco, the program manager for toonami/adult swim, whether he'd ever tried to acquire Uprising, since animated shows for older audiences did well under his watch... And he surprised me by telling me he had actually tried to make that happen back when Uprising was cancelled, but Disney said no.
It's too bad too, since toonami actually had a good history of funding/bringing back projects, maybe Uprising could've been one of those. 😕
@@eji Wow that's interesting. Someone actually tried to bring it back. He could've offered them a sweet deal or something.
wow.
where i live i first watched it around 8 or 10pm just sitting and watching disney so i guess it was a good tactic - downside being disney being not so popular aside from children and teens at all out here
Cartoon: *Is good and popular*
Executives: _Throws it in the trash_
From what he said it wasn't popular enough I guess.
didn't he say the show lost views?
@@Phantomsangel - Blame Disney, and also, Disney XD.
@@Phantomsangel it started strong then lost steam fast. But my comment was intended more as a generalization
@@adriannaranjo4397 To be fair a lot of fans including myself was actively trying, TRYING, to watch the show as it was airing but Disney XD was practically sabotaging the show by moving the schedule every week that it became incredibly hard to know when new episodes were coming out, when they were airing them and what time it was on because they stopped advertising it. Didn't help that they stopped airing episodes weekly, to biweekly to whenever the hell they felt like it. It's such a crying shame.
Uprising did so much- I mean SO MUCH, for the franchise. The world building that took place in one season was incredible compared to what Legacy offered. To me, Uprising was the first step that would've guided the franchise to become a powerhouse today. It breaks my heart to see how Disney treated something that changed my life as a kid
Cartoon: gets great reviews and a huge fanbase.
Executives: *we don't do that around here.*
didn't he say the show lost views?
That also describes Carton Network's approach, re: Thundercats 2011 and Young Justice.
That’s weird cause Gravity Falls lived and got one more season than Uprising even though they both premiered the same year.
Sorry if this is late.
Can't have fans spending their money on Tron when they needed to see their dollars go to Star Wars in order to justify the enormous investment Disney made there. How well did that work out...
J.J. Abrams didn't direct Legacy -- it was Joseph Kosinski.
His favourite movie but no idea who made it? Hmmmm
@@fantomdenis he also said it was based on an arcade game...which it's not
His life was built on a lie.
I think he simply misread or misunderstood some information as he is learning about the lore and continuity of the franchise as a whole. He likely mistook a portion of the write up explaining Legacy’s plot as if it was explaining the series as a whole. Mistaking Abrams as the director was likely a situation where he saw the director’s name flash on screen but wasn’t actually paying much attention and just assumed it said JJ.
JJ isn’t really a great director anyway.
This and Motorcity were the most slickest and stylistic cartoon Disney has ever distributed (mainly thanks to Robert Valley) , it's a damn shame that the company would just can them like that .
Motorcity deserves better too
Honestly!!! I feel like Disney wanted both of those shows to fail or at least didn’t care enough about them to keep it going.
yes sir motorcity was awesome but i dont know why its got cancelled
I remember I saw this on Disney XD, and wow! The animation looks super nice,like,almost virtualize,and yeah motor city was also cool as well,and I can’t believe those 2 masterpieces got canceled,*sigh!*, I really dislike when good action cartoons get canceled,
Motorcity is amazing yes!!! Shame it got cancelled!!!
The shortened, incomplete run of Tron : Uprising was an absolute crime. That show was _brilliant_ , and I want more. I’m going to have to rewatch those 19 episodes, again.
I'll never forget watching Uprising's last episode and there was this tiny red piece of corruption in Tron's code and I was squeaking in excitement because I wanted more. There was so much potential, and so many ways it could go, but hen it got canceled. Biggest disappointment ever
Yeah I’m certain that they’d have tacked how he become Rinzler😅 if we had been allowed to see a season 2
@@gracekim1998 Now that made me wonder about Beck's fate in the end of Uprising if there would be a second season.
Does Beck dies, or went into hiding? Because he never appeared in Legacy
I was looking forward to seeing how Rinzler’s possession of two Identity discs was explained or originated
@@Isaac-gh5ku another reason Disney may have canceled it. The path beck was on was dark and he was either going to die or be defeated and forced into excile. Neither seem appealing to Disney but I would have loved it.
The crazy part is when they started re-uploading clips of the show earlier this year, most of them got great views, likes, and comments.
This was greatly needed as this show is on Disney +
Sucks they were missing the first episode for awhile.
@@SourRobo8364 I know right!
I Slay Goblins it did?
@@gracekim1998 - Yes. .Σ( ° △ °|||).
@@SourRobo8364 is it on there now? :)
Not advertising a show is also a good way to kill it. I only found Uprising do to a friend wanting me to see Motorcity. Then moving it to midnight after hiatus with out advertising did not help. Then merchandise I wanted Uprising things, but all there is is the soundtrack, and that came out after the show ended. The first ep is now on D+ it was on youtube, and Itunes free when it was not.
@Derek Hottenstein It is a vary fine line, and no one ever agrees with the right amount.
You, Negative Legend, were actually the one who got me to watch the entire Tron series, including Uprising. Thank you, seriously, for introducing me to this spectacular show. I just finished watching it on Disney + a few weeks ago. :)
Have you had the opportunity to play both Tron: Evolution (either on PC, Xbox360, or PS3) as well as TRON 2.0 on PC (however the Xbox (the first Xbox) version TRON 2.0 Killer App is the console equivalent)?? Both are awesome games. The visual styles of both are amazing. Like the original’82 film, TRON 2.0’s visuals still look great today simply because the art style transcends the graphical limitations of the time and actually would only need better character faces/models to be considered “remastered”
I think Tron has one of the most intriguing Syfy world I've ever heard of.
I still wish I bought an Identity Disk when legacy came out. I also hate that the show got put in the midnight death slot.
Yeah that was awful
My god I saw that time slot when I was younger watching Disney XD, god who thought that was a good idea especially on a school night
@@3xpc8libur it feels like what Disney wanted to do was kill it off because the movie didn't take off like they wanted, but the show was high quality so they would air it when the fewest number of views could see it in order smother the flames per say before it could grow beyond whatever plans they originally had for it if the movie would have done better. This was before they had the MCU and Star Wars fully in their clutches to mold and milk.
Yeah, no wonder its "lost views"
i still have my rinzler identity disc, it has some indents in it from where my dog bit on it. definatly gonna keep it
One of the storyboarders on the show had mentioned that the last episode originally was supposed to be TWO episodes. There's an storyboard animatic floating around somewhere with a deleted scene where Clu meets up with Tesler and punishes him for his failures up to that point. From what I understand, it still would've ended on the cliffhanger of Clu's forces vs. all the Rebels, but it wouldn't have been as rushed.
Simple , Disney bought Star Wars in 2012 and didn't feel like they needed it anymore.
"There's only room for one questionably racist franchise"
- Pan Pizza
Disney to tron:
"I don't want to play with you anymore"
Darn it!
@@skootergirl22 Disney: FINISH THE GAME!
If you watched Star Wars Resistance, you'll see that they are basically the same show
Actually, TRON: Legacy is a sequel, while TRON: Uprising is set between the two films, here's the timeline
2010 - TRON: Legacy
1989/1990 - TRON: Uprising
1989 - TRON: Evolution
1985/1988 - TRON: Evolution - Battle Grids
1983 - TRON: Betrayal
1982 - TRON
Yeah I was wondering why he said reboot. I swear it was a sequel
How in the hell did you figure out that Uprising was in late 80s early 90s, I never knew
You missed the Tron games on Intellivision, Tron 2.0 video game on PC and the Tron video game after legacy came out.
@@DawnTreaderPlaysEDO according to Steven Lisberger(creator of TRON) and Joseph Kosinski(director of TRON: Legacy), they're not canon
2006-2008 - TRON: The Ghost in the Machine
2004 - TRON 2.0: Killer App (GBA)
2003 - TRON 2.0
1982 - TRON
@@gracekim1998 It’s dry much a sequel the plot is literally involves the son of the last film protagonist as the lead.
I loved that show and was so upset they didn't give it a proper ending
9:46 "Beck manages to wonder into a Zip file" I sprayed water from my nose while drinking LMAO!
Thank you SO MUCH for covering TRON: Uprising. It was by far my favourite cartoon (non-anime), and it really feels like Disney gave it a huge budget, but no chance to succeed. Motorcity also got the same treatment (please cover that one too).
I hope i’m not the only one that wants to see a Spectacular Spider-Man one, unless he’s already done that
Yee
I think we need Negative Legend to step outside his element and do a What Happened to Pan Am. As in that TV show that starred Christina Ricci.
69th like.
This show will always have a very special place in my heart, because it was one of my best friends shows, and he sadly passed away in a car accident, and so I watched it after in his honour and ended up loving it too.
Miss you Brody, Rest In Peace.
is like how Rebeltaxi say about Tron: Disney created Tron after the success of Star Wars, now they have Star Wars now, now they don't need it anymore
Then they killed Star Wars.
@Derek Hottenstein Are you kidding? Have you not seen the disintegration of the fanbase, Solo losing money, RoS not making nearly what it should, internal strife a Lucasfilm, etc?
@Derek Hottenstein It's a ruined franchise, it's pretty much being carried by a show and the comics at this point considering the entire new trilogy was not up to par, at all.
Not sure if the jj abrams directing Tron legacy was a joke or not, but just to clear it up tron legacy was directed by Joseph krosinksi
*Kosinski
He was also slated to direct a reboot of The Black Hole, but that fell long ago.
I had to immediately check online if Abrams had anything to do with Tron, and... nope. That's a totally weird mistake for someone who says Legacy is his favorite movie.
Honestly, Disney is doing all these revivals of shows, I don’t know why they’re not reviving shows that they canceled but have developed passionate fanbases since. Other streaming services should be doing that too frankly.
Agreed
Revivals are cheap. _Uprising_ was not.
Alan Smith-Emerson None of these companies have been shy about spending gobs of money on their “originals” and “exclusives”.
The uncanny valley effect in Tron: Legacy actually works better than if the CGI was totally photo realistic. It is a computer generated world, after all. I really liked Tron: uprising, and I wish I could find the entire series somewhere. The things it expanded on beyond the movie were fascinating, and its art style was fantastic.
I wouldn't go that far. Every other program looks like a real person except for Clu, so he stands out. I appreciate what they were trying to do but better than a real actor? I don't think so. It was a good attempt that comes up a little short. But everything else is great.
YEESSSS FINALLY SOMETHING IS TALKING ABOOOUT THIS MASTERPIECE!!!!
I’ve been searching for someone who gives this series justice, and now it just drops in my recommendations?
A gift from God, and no less
I loved this show! Honestly they really need to make a season 2.
This show is the most underrated show of all time imo. And it needs a season 2!!!
I think this is the only show I’ve watched that I was actually upset it was canceled. Everything else I was somewhat satisfied with the ending, but here? Nope, still upset.
You are not alone. I’m a 50 year old kid and I think Tron is by far one of the coolest franchises ever. Legacy is epic, and Uprising is amazing. Thanks for the vid. Well done.
A Disney show that's a prequel to Tron Legacy designed by the same guy who worked on the Gorillaz music videos.... whoa...
I'm so glad to see that many years later, there's a dedicated fanbase for this series. There's so many unfinished plot points that it drives me insane. Why would they just dump a masterpiece like this? It was ambitious, experimental, explored many different themes, and most importantly of all, was engaging throughout all of it while having a more mature theme! It's not fair that the mistakes of the parent corporation have to be given as burdens to innocent shows and killed off because of it. But look, many years later this show has a bigger following than ever before! Unfortunately, I bet if we asked now, Disney would just find a way to screw it up, but could they at least just give us one movie to tie everything up? Like Serenity did for Firefly years after its cancellation? Just bridge the gap between this show and the beginning of Tron: Legacy, please.
This show is so special to me. My family and I would sit down to watch a new episode every week. We were so excited for season 2.
We were very disappointed.
I honestly enjoyed my time in Tron Evolution. Learning to be a security program from Tron and canonically being called Anon was delightful. The combat was about as you would expect it to be for a Tron game. A lot of flipping and ID throwing. It felt good, though some of the platforming was janky at times. I don't know I've always loved the concept of Tron. Like peeking into a world of digital beings gets my imagination sparking.
First. One of the greatest series that needs a continuation
AGREED
Ye
AGREED
You mentioned Motorcity and ngl, totally derailed my thoughts about the good good show Tron for a hot second. I love Motorcity, utterly adore it. I’m.... fairly certain you haven’t done a video on it? Would make my YEAR if you did. In the meantime, thanks for the reminder + motivation to watch Uprising! That one club scene from Legacy lives rent free in my brain, so it’s always good to get some more slick n sleek techno-dystopia content :)
Keep talking, keep it alive.
tron lives
Cam'ron Henderson If they don’t ruin it first though.
@@silvertemplar8061 They got the right people first time around. I doubt any next time will be so lucky. The amount of talent in Hollywood can barely fill a thimble.
Alan Smith-Emerson Which is why we need independent creators to come together.
tron lives
0:44 Tron Legacy was directed by Joseph Kosinski, not JJ Abrams
One of the best cartoons ever. Way ahead of its time
they've been saying that about Tron for over 30 years
@@GoddessOfWhim2003 and it's still good
@@spritemon98 damn skippy. the 40th anniversary is in two years, i'm looking forward to getting the Bluray. i bought the 30th but it was the same as the 20th so i gave it to a friend.
@@GoddessOfWhim2003 that's nice of you. I'm honestly surprised its nearing 40 years now
@@spritemon98 i wasn't even born when Tron was released, but i would rent it from the library all the time
The show is was so damn good unfortunately I watched it much later in life, but still.
The story, the characters, the art - never seen something so unique - and likely music (is has been awhile) were so damn good!
Gotta love Polygon Pictures they really do a great job 😆
Finally someone talks about it, I haven't heard anything about Tron.
I am making my son (who is 4) a TRON identity disc out of el wire and a frisbee....he calls himself ‘Morgan Flynn!’, and wants to watch it over and over. There is love out there. It just may need to mature. I believe that people will catch up. Sometimes it’s just timing in life. Critics hated ‘theThing’ when it came out- I loved it like you and I both love legacy and uprising. Now ‘the Thing’ is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. The Tron universe is very interesting and it your love for it will be vindicated.
I freaking LOVE tron legacy it’s one of my all time favorite movies
I'm glad people are still talking about this amazing show that was once great. I really love watching people talking how they feel about Tron Uprising
oh wow! talk about coincidences, i'd JUST started watching this series like, last week
I just came across Tron Uprising in late December, and I’m hooked. The show is underrated. Too bad they did not make more episodes.
it took eleven years for Samurai Jack to have its final season. 11 YEARS!
I hope they pick this up for other seasons eventually.
I dressed up as a program for Halloween when I was 12. Had to scrap the costume together myself with black clothes and reflective strips. My dad made me a disc, and tbh, it was one of my better Halloween costumes
OH SHIT, I thought the show ended with Able's death!! Welp, time to go complete my childhood in a sense.
Then probably replay all the tron levels from kingdom hearts 2 and 3d and cry a little.
We'll see.
Yeah🙂
Wait, there are Tron levels in Kingdom Hearts 2? I started playing that game last month but kind of lost interest because the beginning was soooo slow. Looks like I know what I'll be doing here in the near future.
@@octalicious It's not called TRON, though, sadly. The game calls it Space Paranoids, and yes, the OG Tron dude is there, as it follows that story.
Whereas in a later KH game, Dream Drop Distance, the Tron world is titled The Grid, and seems to pick up sometime after Legacy, due to it featuring Rinzler and Clue.
Considering Tron 3 was confirmed to be in the works, Tron Uprising may have a chance to make a comeback on Disney Plus like they did with Star Wars the Clone Wars. We need to see the payoff involving Beck being framed as a terrorist, Beck and Paige's relationship, Paige's redemption and obvious built up betrayal, and the final payoff that explains how Tron became Rinzler, as well as the final battle against Tesler. We also need to see the explanation as to how Tron fully became Rinzler and what exactly happened to Beck, Paige, and his friends before or during the events of Tron Legacy.
Now this, this is hitting close to home, I know the film by heart and that soundtrack, oh the soundtrack is BEAUTIFUL
It is very depressing that they ended it but hopefully with the upcoming move would lead them into completing the series.
Yeah
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Quick thing: J.J. Abrams didn't actually have anything to do with the movie. I was thinking of the Star Trek interviews and there's interviews comparing directors who reboot franchises and I mixed J.J. Abrams and Joseph Kosinski.
Also, the game and movie came out the same year. The movie wasn't technically based on the game. There were people who played the game first and then watched the movie which lead to reports of people thinking that one was based off the other and vice versa.
Correction at 0:45 - It was Joseph Kosinski who directed Tron Legacy
Yeah um Tron Legacy was definitely a sequel 😅
In my country Tron Uprising and Motorcity where never run on Disney XD, but Motorcity was available on the Disney wbsite until 2016 then it just passed away and no one ever knew it even existed... so Tron Uprising.
It makes me so sad.
Can you talk about the ARG and propaganda of Tron? Pleeeease
Still one of my favourite movies too. Every point You’ve made I totally agree with.
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This show was wonderful. It’s my all time favourite cartoons Disney has ever produced. It deserves more credit than it’s gotten and its awesome animation, stylization of the TRON world and it’s overall story and feel still make me giddy with excitement, as well as the feeling of untold misery for its unjust cancellation.
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It’s such an inspiration for me, that I consider it the prime inspiration for my own scifi novels that I’ve been creating.
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I love this show. Please give it support. it’s well animated, it’s well voiced, it’s music is phenomenal. And it’s, just... beautiful.
This is probably my favorite moment in the show.
*Beck gets hit by a car*
Driver: It wasn’t my fault!
God this, slugterra, motorcity, and a slew of others were some of the best shows to watch on disney xd. This was literally my childhood.
At least motorcity had a proper ending
@@T3N5H11 wHAT??? Didnt it end on a cliff hanger??
I love the vibe of this whole video. Great job, Negative Legend.
You know I thought about writing a continuation in a Fanfiction but I felt I didn’t have enough skill to match the show’s writing
You gotta believe in yourself Grace.
I believe in you even though I'm a stranger online Id love to see a cool continuation!! Wether writing form or Animated form
Misty The Lost thanks fellow fan🙂
I hope they come back with either this show or some new Tron stuff. I miss it man.
Tron: Legacy is my favorite movie too! I’ve never owned an identity disc, but I do have this really cool Lego version of the iconic lightcycle race with Rinzler.
Damn, bro. Your aesthetic game in these recent videos has been on point.
Dude I remember watching this show and loving it. I wished I lived there so badly. It was so dang cool and really tickled my techie love for all things high-tech and futuristic.
The aesthetic of Tron legitimately slaps like nothing else ever has
I just saw tron uprising a week ago not knowing anything about it and holy crap that was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Still need to patch that plot hole on what happened to Tron.
Idk when I subscribed to you and idk why I got a random notification but Tron and Tron Legacy and Tron Uprising are some of my favourite Movies and show
Finally someone doing tron justice for how wonderful it is .
I never clicked on a video so fuckin fast. More light needs to be brought to this series
Sad things happened. It is my favorite show ever and i think everyone should watch it!
This movie... Lol I watched this when I was 8 years old, and ever since then I’ve been obsessed with it. It just hurts my heart knowing that it just didn’t get a lot of love from a lot of people. This movie, story line, idea is really incredible. It deserved so much more! But hey, at least there are still some fans out there ;)
Thank you for the great video, too!
Hell yeah I loved this show damn this is gonna be a good watch when I have the time 😆
I saw tron Legacy when I was 7 and instantly got hooked to all tron things
I adore this show and I adore Tron Legacy. I really, really hope Disney decides to continue this series on Disney+ and hopefully we do see that sequel to Tron Legacy. Also I'm sure you're aware but LEGO Ideas released a Tron Legacy set that was very popular and sold really well. It's honestly one of my favorite sets LEGO has ever produced.
19:57 The game you were referring to was Pong from 1976. Steven Lisberger original thought was to make this an animated film. Maybe that's why the animated series looked so good? So it wasn't based on a game, more that it inspired the idea of a world inside computers. I was 14 years old when TRON came out and it blew my mind so I know how you felt when you saw your TRON. Oh and the arcade game that came out after this movie was amazing for its day. Especially the light cycle level. I'd give anything for a well preserved game. Well that and and a Pinbot or Adams Family pinball. Console gaming is fun but I feel sorry for those who never had the benefit of the corrupting influence of the rogue' s gallery of characters found hanging around inside. Different times!
OH DUDE. You get my sub. YES.
Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :)
Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.
Sucks that this show got replaced by show’s like avengers assemble. I wouldn’t have a problem with that show if the animation didn’t look so cheap looking.
The TRON universe is one of the franchises that I love the most and TRON LEGACY is one of my favorite movies. I hope the new movie is going to be fantastic!
All I remember is that at some point when it aired it moved to early morning almost on purpose 😨
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I am too tired at the moment to make a long, properly written comment, but for what it's worth:
I watched the original Tron when I was a kid, and promptly forgot it. I was too young.
I later experienced the game Tron 2.0, and was enthralled. The world building was incredible to me, and the experience continues to stick with me today.
I hated Tron Legacy. I honestly believe this is because of my familiarity with Tron 2.0, which was far less philosophical and had already accomplished the intriguing world design.
I rediscovered the original Tron, loved it, and opened up a bit more to Legacy. I still don't like it, but I at least understand why it went in the direction it did.
I loved Tron Uprising. It still didn't have the world building I was looking for, but it made up for that with its strong character development.
I have little hope for a third Tron movie. Disney in general has been getting worse with each release, and I doubt they'll give the franchise the world building it deserves. I'd love to see continuations of Uprising and 2.0, but I'd rather it be by someone who isn't Disney.
i really appreciate this video since i never see anyone talk about one of my favorite shows.
I'm always ready for a new Negative Legend video >:3
In first place: I loved your english. I can understan everything you said.
2nd place: I loved the movie and the esthetic. I have little toy that came into a "kinder surprise" and I saw the trailer of TRON: UPRISING in my dvd... I was crazy. I can't belive it. I can't see it for a long time until netflix put it in their catalog, and watched the whole serie. When it finished... everything changed in my life. From that they until now, TRON has become in my perfect visual reference for everything Cyberpunk I do.
This is absolutely amazing. What a shame it never got picked up for a second season.
I CANT TELL U HOW RARE IT OS TO FIND SOMEONE ELSO WHO LOVED THE MOVIE THANK U FOR EXISTING
That aesthetic is pulling me in, help.
Give in
Resistance is futile. Give in and surrender.
It's pulling you in?
*Good.*
AAAAAAAAH, you're opening up some old wounds! As someone who's a HUGE Tron fan from the 80's, I LOVED the second movie, and this cartoon was, indeed, AMAZING! They really opened up and expanded the world of Tron in a way that a movie wouldn't really be able to.
I remember that show, I was so sad when it was cancelled
Wait, the show actually has a pretty interesting plo-wait, _wait _*_it ends RIGHT THERE????_*
Wait, why didn't this air in my country?
Also, Tron 3.
After a long time, I found this series in Disney Hotstar app.. Watched the entire episodes in two days, apart from my other tasks..
I'm really addicted to the graphics, colors, detailing and sound effects.. One of the Best!!!
i freaking loved tron uprising i watch it when it first came out in 2010
I have been waiting for this video.
I've rewatched the series like like a dozen times.
i remember being really disappointed by the movie.... i loved the trailer, the music, how it looked and all... but nothing beyond the aesthetic really grabbed me. the characters were boring, the plot gave me nothing to invest on.
and then i saw the trailer for this show. god, i loved the look of it. i thought it was amazing, something i had never seen before... but the movie left me so disappointed that i didnt really give the show a chance (also, i was watching less tv and spending more time on the internet, so theres that). now, looking at it, knowing the plot, im interested again.
Well, I have to ask, did you?
This trilogy was a major part of my childhood like code leokol, OG ben 10, Generater Rex, Semi Bionic titan, Bionicle, and the Secret Saturdays.
3:26 huh.. no wonder i loved the designs so much 🤣
One of my favorite shows. It was so cool . An interesting and unique world that built upon the films but also had its own original stories.The style seemed weird but it fits. It was interesting having beck be the main character and seeing things from a new perspective
I always wish for Tron uprising and Motorcity to come back.
If I could choose any cancelled show to be revived, it would be this one. Such a gorgeous show with so much potential.