Mitchell Stein- Another important show in Disney Television history is Tron: Uprising. Coming off the success of 2010’s Tron Legacy, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (known for their work on Lost and Once Upon a Time) returned to the Tron franchise to produce the series as well as writing the first four episodes. Charlie Bean directed every episode for the series, with the exception of “Welcome Home”.
In the days of the awful shows that Disney airs on both
Disney Channel and the fairly new Disney XD channel, Tron: Uprising was one of the greatest things to enter the current
days of Disney television shows. I really loved Tron Legacy, the 2010 sequel to
the original 1987 film, which brilliantly reimagined the entire video game
world of TRON. The cinematography in Tron Legacy really beats out the designs
and special effects it used in the original and created a truly brilliant fictional
world, built with streaks of various different colors to make up this entire
world. The designs seen in Tron worked as a major inspiration for the new
designs for the revamped Test Track in
Epcot, or as I refer to it, Tron Track.
Since the possibilities in the world of Tron are just
fantastic and endless, it only made sense for Tron to
be greenlighted for a TV
show. Tron: Uprising premiered on May 18th 2012. The series is meant
to take place between the time of Tron and Tron Legacy, much like Star Wars: The Clone Wars had been,
where the story was to take place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of
the Sith. The story of Tron Uprising centers a young program named Beck, who
becomes determined to take down General Tesler (an officer under the control of
the diabolical Kevin Flynn look-alike, Clu) and Tesler’s army after one of the
army’s members “derezz” his friend Bodhi. He realizes that the city of Argon is
now being taken over by Clu’s armies and no one is able to help them,
especially since the hero, Tron, is dead. Beck decides to rise above that and
disguise himself as Tron to try to prevent further drezzments and to save his
friends from being sent to “The Games”, and will continue to fight Tesler and
his army until justice is brought to the city of Argon.
Following in the steps of Tron Legacy, the animation in this
series is so fantastic and jaw-dropping. The artwork is in this genius new
style which I’ve never seen previously in a television series, and blends it
with the already existing fantastic world of Tron. In fact, there’s this scene
in the fourth episode during the Argon tunnel races that should have won an
Annie for outstanding animation in a single episode, or series for that matter.
The story-line in the show is so exciting and gripping, and the cast of
characters are fantastic, and include voice actors from the original films.
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