A few thoughts after (finally) seeing Tron: Legacy:

1) I hope The Black Hole is better - are you listening Travis Beacham?

2) I actually got all nostalgic for the worldbuilding of James Cameron - as clunky as that can be - while watching it. Sure, Cameron's stories are pretty simple, but his world is detailed, and thought out. This one...from the very start. It needed someone as dense and unquestioning as Sam to go into it.

3) If this was Sam's story, why did we end with a shot of Cora? Why wasn't Cora's story moved forward more?

4) Speaking of programs coming into our world, what was/is Cora now? Likewise, how was Clu going to move all of those programs into our world, and what were they going to do? I would've loved to have seen a shot of one of them leaning over to the other and saying "Hey, why are we going over there again?"

"Hell if I know, just keep pounding your spear thing up and down and shut up."

5) Castor = Zuse screams of someone forgot to change the name of another character somewhere in an earlier draft of the script or they ran out of money and the director said "Screw it. Castor is Zuse!"

6) The movie screamed for an epilogue, and no, Disney, I don't want to read it online or in a comic book. All you needed was 45 seconds.

POV of someone lying on a beach. The sky is cloudy, but its beginning to clear. The water isn't "our" water, it's the digitzed water of the final scenes. We're still in Flynn's world. Through this POV we see the lower legs and bare feet of someone in a white robe/leggins walking toward the viewer.

FLYNN (kneeling and coming into the shot, but only showing knees and hands): You okay in there old friend?

Pull back to a mid shot, we see Flynn (from the back) is helping the semi-conscious form of Tron/Rinzler.

FLYNN: Come on, come on, buddy. (Muttering) Where is it...

Flynn pushes a button, and Tron's helmet whizzes back, revealing a young-looking Tron, waking...

shot from Tron's POV, showing a Flynn-hybrid of Clu and Flynn - the longer white hair od the elder Flynn, with the younger, unsaved face of Clu.

FLYNN: We've got a world to fix...

or whatever.... anyway...was fun, could have been better.

We're here! Pull out the crunk juice.

Do people even say that anymore?

Anyway, as the title says, this is the Impending Disaster Productions blog - the place where Matt Brady (that's me) and Troy Brownfield (that's him) talk about what we're working on, what we've worked on, what we hope to work on, and point out some of the good and bad in the stuff that's out there.

First up, of course is February's BUCK ROGERS ANNUAL #1 from Dynamite Entertainment (order your copies - or dozens of copies - now!) at the left. It's a cool little story (if we say so ourselves) about Buck's birthday. How does a man 500 years into the future celebrate his birthday? Heck, does he even want to celebrate his birthday?

Troy and I had a great time writing it, and we're hoping it will lead to some more Buck things in the future. We've got a sheaf-full of ideas (now I know no one says "sheaf-full" anymore) for Buck, and yes, to answer the question that always comes up, there are plans for Twikki.

What else, what else? This train is just getting rolling, really. We've got pitches and plans at a number of publishers, and are in talks with or waiting on a handful more. And that's just the start.

So that's that for introductions. Shout out if you're here.