This week, “Tron: Ares,” the blockbuster that wasn’t, makes its final bid for profitability — hitting the streaming services, complete with a bonus deleted scene . As Hollywood continues its messy quest to restore its lost glory, what better time for a postmortem?

“Tron: Ares” tells us much. This trilogy-completing movie should have been a layup. With the film, Disney had a great existing piece of intellectual property and a time that could not have been better for a sequel. You can’t go a day on the internet without hearing about AI, surveillance, data centers, hacking, and other topics that the “Tron” universe is uniquely qualified to address.

I need to defend Jared Leto for a second.

The question was: Could Disney pull off a sequel to a pair of movies released in 1982 and 2010 whil

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