Finally got around to watching the last episode of Tron: Uprising. Great damn show; disappointed to see it go but they left the story far enough along to lead back into the movies, which apparently are still getting made because somebody somewhere thinks it makes more sense to make a sequel to a movie that barely broke even domestically than to continue a cartoon spinoff that nobody was watching because it didn't have a consistent timeslot or any promotion.
At any rate, I enjoyed the way they ended it, and the show as a whole -- pretty damn bleak, really, but with that undercurrent of hope.
(Though I have to gripe about one inconsistency: just a few episodes ago, when Dyson confirmed to Clu that Tron was still alive, Clu killed the third guy in the room so that no one else would know. And then in the final episode, he's got a whole fucking squadron after Tron, addressing him by name and seeing him unmasked so that they know it's really, really him. Now, kudos to Clu for just killing that guy for no reason except to end an episode dramatically, but yeah this is not exactly consistent behavior.)
I think it's interesting that children's entertainment about small groups of dissidents waging asymmetric warfare against oppressive governments is becoming vogue again -- didn't see much of it in the past decade, for obvious reasons. Even Star Wars has been telling stories where the future Imperial Army are the good guys.
Though now that the next Star Wars series is set between episodes 3 and 4, Disney's going to have another rebels-fight-an-evil-empire cartoon running. And hopefully this one will be more successful than Tron was.
Though give that it's Weisman, I still only give it two seasons.
