He guest-starred on Chuck as well.

However, all SF shows are shot in Canada now, not the US, so perhaps he just doesn't feel like living in Canada?



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Excellent point. I remember reading some stuff in his biography that he's very much a family man so that would make sense.

It's why Richard Dean Anderson left Stargate.



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Check this out. I had turned on the TV a couple days ago to the Weather Channel and was listening to the forecast while doing other things around the house. Oddly, I hear "End of Line" by Daft Punk start playing in the background several minutes later. I originally thought the channel had changed when I noticed that weather channel was using it as background music. Since when does weather channel do this? They typically use non-specific elevator music. Did anyone else catch this?

Looks like lots of people noticed it





I might start watching more weather channel if they put good techno on there regularly

I assume the Weather Channel paid Disney the appropriate fee for using that music!

I just watched this again this weekend and I am even more convinced that this was a very worthy effort and successor to the original film. What impressed me the most is that in this current age of brainless summer entertainment dominating the box office, Tron Legacy had a much more complex script and premise compared to the original. All of the metaphysical and existential stuff mentioned by Flynn alone was enough to write a book about.

I don't know, if you step back and look at it, Legacy's plot was almost the same as the original! Replace MCP with Clu, replace Tron with Flynn, replace Flynn with Sam, replace Clu with Quorra...



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How many plots are there? Seven(ish), with variations (citation).

If you step back far enough it's only a movie but as a movie and you look close there's some layers that please a more curious mind. And like Zen isn't about answers, just asking questions and thinking about them after a movie is a rare thing today (other than the question "why did I bother?").

Musically perhaps not as avant-garde as the first TRON (I can't tell if she used authentic Bach tunings but it sounds like a good attempt to me, I can only play alto sax so am probably tone deaf). Just today I heard a new AAA console game soundtrack using a similar Daft Punk electro beat. Culturally TRON influenced artists more than the viewing audience. Since we inhabit a designed world, the legacy of 1980s TRON is in part all around us, even though we might not recognise it.

And Syd Mead was a driving force behind what Tron looked like. That guy is just a fricking genius.

He also worked on Blade Runner and Aliens.