tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post7173599259454923931..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Tron: Legacy as Season 1 of a TV series.chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-89078052365434669542012-07-10T14:01:48.889-04:002012-07-10T14:01:48.889-04:00Yeah, makes sense - I'd forgotten that aspect ...Yeah, makes sense - I'd forgotten that aspect of the new film. If one's being at all realistic, new programs are basically spawned as required, but realism has never been an important aspect of these films.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-41756612004530177032012-07-10T12:19:52.829-04:002012-07-10T12:19:52.829-04:00I confess I have problems with the characterisatio...<i>I confess I have problems with the characterisation, particularly the way the only female character is basically Exotic Foreign Babe To Be Won, but that's not your problem...</i><br /><br />Hopefully that would be solved by the additional cast, the city programs, being more gender balanced. Then the difference would be that one of the female characters was exotic and foreign and seemed to be hitting it off with Sam, not that the only prominent female character was.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><i>A 26-TV-hour shooting schedule is brutal on the cast and crew; somewhere around 22-24 is a lot more doable.</i><br /><br />Like I said, this was a result of hastily jotting down possible places for episodes while watching the movie. I didn't even keep track of how many I was creating.<br /><br />Especially since I'm not sure that I want the back home resistance to succeed in taking back the city, there's a lot of room for condensing, it might work better instead of staging a revolution they were preparing a resistance, and that could possibly be shown in less time.<br /><br />Right now I have 26 episodes one of them two hour. So 27 hours and you recommend a max of 24. 22-24 could be condensed into one makeing it 25 hours.<br /><br />If there isn't a need to show a full scale revolution in the city at the end, then major meat of episode 25 is also going to be missing. So 25 and 26 can be combined.<br /><br />That brings it down to 24 TV hours, spread across 23 episodes (two hour pilot.)<br /><br />The major accomplishment in the city was the organization of a resistance movement, not the overthrowing of the regime.<br /><br />Getting rid of the overthrowing also saves a lot on the effects that would be necessary, and has a much better lead in to season 2: We've stopped Clu from invading earth, but we haven't beaten him yet. With Season two being about beating him.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><i>Going by the original film, I thought the idea was that user-written programs became sapient entities inside the computer - and when people's software keeps vanishing, it's going to get re-written, or at least restored from source (which on inside terms might well mean the same face but a memory wipe).</i><br /><br />The problem is that Tron: Legacy all takes place inside one system that's been running for 20 years without anyone on the outside even knowing. No users have been available to replace their programs. Now things would get more interesting in later seasons when the show finally expanded outward onto the internet, because then you have that. Not to mention the idea of back ups: never breached in the original movie.<br /><br />Now maybe there is some automated program that makes new programs at a semi steady rate, but the problem would be this:<br />1 Where is it?<br />2 Why hasn't Clu taken it over and used it to make programs for himself.<br />3 What does that even look like from the inside?chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-43053972350663967462012-07-10T05:59:09.859-04:002012-07-10T05:59:09.859-04:00A standard US TV hour these days is about 42 minut...A standard US TV hour these days is about 42 minutes, and a half hour episode is 21 minutes. A 26-TV-hour shooting schedule is brutal on the cast and crew; somewhere around 22-24 is a lot more doable.<br /><br />I confess I have problems with the characterisation, particularly the way the only female character is basically Exotic Foreign Babe To Be Won, but that's not <i>your</i> problem...<br /><br />Going by the original film, I thought the idea was that user-written programs became sapient entities inside the computer - and when people's software keeps vanishing, it's going to get re-written, or at least restored from source (which on inside terms might well mean the same face but a memory wipe).Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com