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This was a goddamn rad show that will sadly never get a real ending. Most people remember it from when it was on ABC and was a procedural drama, with each episode self contained about a bunch of computer superheroes saving their system from video games. Those episodes were alright, but once the show left ABC it became a lot more awesome.
The shift from ABC to... where-ever the hell it ended up (it escapes me at the moment) was drastic. The show shifted to a serial format, opting instead to tell one, 3-season long story. It began with local virus villains Hexadecimal and Megabyte teaming up with series hero Bob as the system they inhabited finally connected to the internet for the first time. With the connection to the internet came, of course, an unspeakable virus that was slowly infecting every computer connected to the internet. They simply called the virus, "the web." The local virii and Bob formulated a plan to contain the the web and send it off to the internet where it would eventually die, but at the last minute, Megabyte betrayed Bob and Hex, throwing bob into the internet along with the web, while enslaving Hex to use her super powers to wreak havok on the system.
With Bob gone, the system was left without a true guardian to protect itself from Megabyte. However, prior to Bob's apparent death, he uploaded his guardian code to a small sprite named Enzo, which would enable Enzo to eventually evolve into a Guardian. With Bob gone, the then-child Enzo became Mainframe's guardian and battled Megabyte. He befriended another sprite named AndrAIa, slowly becoming better as time progressed, until he was tested in a game of Mortal Kombat, where he lost. Rather than becoming a nibble - the punishment for losing a game - he became interface and traveled through the game to other games around the internet. From there, Enzo grew up, jumping from game to game, along with AndrAIa. Rather than becoming a Guardian, the angry Enzo became a Rogue instead, a reengage who hunted viruses on his own.
And all this was only the backstory. As the show went on, they'd eventually team up with a websurfer, find Bob, return to Mainframe, save Hex, defeate Megabyte, all become pawns of a new Super Virus, have Hex save them all in sacrifice, have the old Bob come back, find out Megabyte is still alive, and eventually end of a cliff hanger. The show will never finish, if only because Tony Jay, the voice of Megabyte, is now dead. A few years ago, they had intended to reboot the show (no pun intended) as a brand new movie, but those plans apparently fell apart.
Anybody else love this show as a kid? It was awesome. For those who only saw the early episodes, here's a recap of the entire 3rd season:
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Goddamn right. So badass.
It wouldn't be the same but it could totally be done.
And I fucking loved this show.
sorry nostalgia
I didn't mean the show would never continue just because he died. They also had announced they were going to start over from scratch, and then even that project died. So its as good a bet as ever that Reboot will never come back.
Even with a prisoner homage on reboot's side
I wasn't ever really a fan of it either
Did you actually watch it? The early non-serial episodes weren't that great, and you really needed to watch it in order for any of the serial episodes to make sense.
You know what undeniably good though? Dexter's Lab
they really took it to interesting places for a kids show. watching enzo grow up to be the hero was pretty awesome, like in DBZ when they set up gohan to replace goku.
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It features Megabyte with a kickass guitar
I watched the show when it originally aired, but didn't really pay too much attention. I knew I liked it, but I couldn't really recap the story if pressed back then. I rewatched it when it came on Toonami and it pretty much cemented itself as a show I liked.
I like the big fight between Matrix and Megabyte, and how Hexadecimal defeats Daemon.
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the ReBoot reboot (ha HA!) comics they released a few years ago weren't great. doing a new show now probably wouldn't make much sense either. ReBoot came out at a time when the internet was still pretty mysterious and new in certain things. the setting was juuust right for ReBoot's plot.
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I was unaware they released some comics. What was the new story like?
yeah, no
just gonna leave this to memory.
At this point my friend and I would play Mario Golf 64 or Jet Force Gemini
sorry Reboot, Jet Force Gemini was really good though
Merchandising!
So Jack is the reason why the Mushroom War took place.
Way to go.
Dick.
The first season of ReBoot wasn't very good. The animation was lackluster, the plots were sub-par, and the VA's hadn't quite nailed it. However, there are some characters and plot stuff that get callbacks in later seasons, so a person my want to endure them for that.
The second season was a marked improvement, especially towards the end when the foreshadowing of The Web and other season 3 plot stuff began to show up. The animation was better, the voice acting was good, and the pop culture and obscure references were well placed. This is also the season that had Bad Bob in it, the mainly Mad-Max parody Cymril may be recalling.
The third season was the best of them. Big leap forward in facial animation, proper shadows, the voice acting was very well done, and the story arc was great. The moment where Matrix knocks back Megabyte on his ass with a single punch, denting his chest in the process and shocking the fuck out of Megabyte remains one of my favorite scenes in a show. I couldn't find the earlier seasons in Canada, except for select episodes on VHS, which I chose to forego. but Season 3 had a 4 volume DVD release back in 2000/2001by ADV Films, so I ordered them & had them shipped from the States to Canada. Since I have owned them, I tend to watch them about once a year on average. I also picked up the complete series on DVD about a year ago, so I also start watching Season 2 from where the Web mythology gears up.
The "fourth season" (quotations because it's format is as two made-for-tv movies) was a big letdown for me. I know that they took two seasons worth of material and crammed it into An improvement in animation, but I found the facial animation to be a huge departure from the style used in the previous 3 seasons, and it just didn't look right. The plot did not go very deep, and they plowed through it at a breakneck pace. Whereas the plot for S3 was developed through the characters at a steady pace, S4, particularly Daemon Rising, just had the plot take place at a non-stop sprint. Dialogue was being fired off with hardly any pause. The characters were reduced to one-dimensional caricatures of their season 3 selves, each being given one defining characteristic and any other sides to their personality that we saw from the previous seasons was thrown to the wayside.
Example 1: Matrix, who was ruthless and still immature in many ways, but also displayed empathy and humor from time to time and ultimately stopped himself from becoming the thing he hated most in season 3. In S4: Daemon Rising, his only attribute, until he got mind-controlled, was rage, and he broke the mind-control be digging deep within himself and unleashing the rage within. All he wanted to do was kill kill kill, and he killed a lot of infected Guardians without ever displaying one bit of regret for being in a situation where that was his only option, and seemed to actually enjoy blowing them away. Oh, and everyone had to make sure to mention how he was a Renegade. Constantly.
Example 2: Dot, who was resourceful business entrepreneur turned tactical leader. In season three, she was putting on a brave, determined face for the troops, but she was getting worn down by her depression over the loss of Bob, and the slow losses to Megabyte. She was also torn over the need to use Enzo as a symbol of hope & defiance for the city, since to do so she was sending her kid brother out into extremely dangerous situations, and she was dealing with having her competitor for Bob's attention, Mouse, around as a valuable member of the team.
In S4: Daemon Rising, Dot has a plan. She has dozens of plans, for she always has a plan, and everybody always reminds us, the viewers, of this fact every chance they get, lest we forget that Dot is the one who always has a plan for everything, until that moment that she yelled out in a panic that she didn't have a plan to deal with whatever it was that had just happened. Oh no! Plan-girl is out of plans! CRISIS!
Now, S4: My Two Bobs, used the same animation as DR, but the plot and dialogue were slowed down, and the facial animations being not so creepy. At the start of the first episode, they did have an amusing live-audience sitcom scene in the diner, lampshading much of the caricature of the characters. This season also brought back in the original VA for Bob, while retaining the one they used for S3 & DR. I find that the plot for MTB drags on until the Megabyte reveal, but by then the story is almost over. (Sadly, since it ended on an interesting cliffhanger that never gets a conclusion) I bought all of S4 on a DVD released by Anchor Bay Entertainment back in 2004, and bad audio encoding makes it all the worse. I don't recall if this is true for DR, but MTB has all the VA's talking in a lower pitch than they should be. Fortunately, the Definitive Mainframe Edition released last year has the proper audio restored. Too bad they didn't fix a couple of bad renders in S4 with it. ( Like a brief scene where Matrix is talking and you can see the background through his mouth.
TL;DR - S1 is blah, but gives you the basics. S2 is okay and gets interesting where the web creature stuff begins. S3 is fuckawesome! S4 leaves you feeling disappointed.
these are fairly accurate opinions.
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