ReBoot Rebooted!

I thought that the next set of episodes may be less painful, because episode 11 started with Hex and Megabyte working together, and they ACT like Megabyte and Hexadecimal. They have genuine chemistry. I though that I would have one positive element, one aspect to cling to in this show. But Hex gets captured and thrown in jail after her second episode. The next episode has a newscaster appear on the air and announce that zombie robots were trying to take over the internet. This is an actual thing that happens.

That is somehow even more offensive than the Ratchet and Clank reboot.

Apparently the Sourcer is the dad to one of the characters.

Early on it's established that the leader of the group has a disappeared dad. I assumed this meant his dad was the Sourceror, but that doesn't make sense because the Sourceror was genuinely surprised to find out the guardians were humans. He did not know prior to this point that there was a way to put people in the internet, and missing dad was the one who invented that tech. The jock has a dad who really wants him to do well in basketball, at the expense of the Gguardian's cyberspace work, not that he knows this, since they keep it a secret. We have not seen he smart guy's dad or the girl's dad.

There's a group called the Department of Internet Security, who are developing into another set of antagonists. They're treated as being Men in Black, but they guard the internet. When this first appeared I thought that it was stupid, but there are actual agencies like the NSA that exist.

According to the YTV cards, the Sourcer is that character's dad.

"That character"? I mentioned all four of them. Would you mind providing a link?

As mentioned on the page, Austin's father, Adam Carter, is revealed to be the Sourcerer through trading cards available in the companion YTV app.

edited 25th Jun '18 3:16:05 PM by EchoingSilence

Ooh; how drama!tic!

I'm not doubting you, but that is dumb as hell. Which is why it's probably true. That means Sourcerer is trying to gain access to technology that he himself invented and apparently forgot about. There is also this ball that the characters find in cyberspace, and it contains some of Adam's (disappeared dad's) memories, and it's implied there are more. So I guess Adam had an accident and his memories got scattered all over cyberspace and then he decided to become evil just for the hell of it? I was just beginning to get past the fact that this has nothing to do with Reboot and start judging it on it's own merits, but if this is the plot thread that we are getting then I can't even

Could you spoiler that? Some of us want to watch the show without being spoiled for things.

Spoilered then.

Seriously, Chariot? You care about this roadkill?

I think that's been made more than clear.

There's no sense in spoiling the show for others who want to judge it themselves. after raving about how much I disliked the show pages back, admittedly

edited 25th Jun '18 3:36:14 PM by Soble

If someone can legitimately enjoy it, good for them, and I hope they have a great time.

I may think this is bad but if others can find something about it they like, no skin off my back.

YTV's schedule shows them airing new episodes of Reboot at least as far as episode 20. It's likely that all 26 episodes of the season are going to air on regular ass TV within the month.

Doesn't sound particularly smart, considering that it isn't airing in the rest of the world via Netflix until the fall, so its likely to be pirated to all hell.

Maybe its a sign that ratings are poor, but that could just be wishful/spiteful thinking on my part.

Kay. YTV is going to air episode 20, then cycle back to episode 1. So the first twenty episodes will have aired with the last six to still be released.

Occasionally you will see a mechanical robot looking guy doing something in in the net. They call these guys Binomes, even though 1. They don't look like binomes 2. They only come in one shape, completely missing the point of them being BInomes, and 3. they have nothing to do with binomials, AKA ones and zeroes. So this is a fail on three different levels.

In the most recent episode, Megabyte infects "Social Media City." What does this do? First he starts appearing on a bunch of youtube-like sites which all start showing a five-second clip of Megabyte laughing over and over again. As the episode progresses we see different clips of Megabyte being shown on TVs all over the world, including the big ones in Times Square and Shibuya. Of course this is all over the news and the anchors go on about "the Megabyte virus" because he is now world famous and everyone knows his name.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jul 2nd 2018 at 4:55:34 AM

You're being sarcastic, right?

Finished watching episode 17. I want to point out how utterly petty Megabyte is in this. He has these minions called sentinels, and the leader is called an Alpha Sentinel. He will often kill off his Alpha Sentinel, then promote a new sentinel at random to take the old guy's place. But the thing is, he kills off the Alpha Sentinel for the most petty things imaginable. One asked Megabyte if he wanted his chariot readied. Megabyte said "no", killed the Alpha Sentinel, then promoted a random sentinel and told him to ready his chariot. The real Megabyte didn't give a crap if his minions died, but he was never so stupid to kill them off for no reason.

Also, Alan Turing High is located in a town in Washington State, or possibly the very southern most part of BC, in a town called Quantum Heights. Yes. The town is Called Quantum Heights.

But that is not the big take away from this post. At one point Megabyte is watching a news broadcast about himself, and I swear to God I am not making this up, he says aloud: "Fair and balanced. This is news I can trust. Unlike all that fake news."

A govenrment organization kidnaps the main character. He says he doesn't know anything, but when interrogating him the head of said government organization basically tells him all the classified information. Then a sympathetic character who works for the government organization unlocks the door to the interrogation room. The main character then walks out of the building with no resistance. Also, the head of the organization apparently forgot he was in there, because she never asks what happened to him, or gets angry at the agent who let him out.

You know what the Sourcerer's master plan is? Because he sure doesn't. One day he tries to launch nukes, then one day he wants to destroy ALL OF CYBERSPACE, which, is where he's from.

Episode 20 AKA "A cyber black hole is going to consume the internet," is done. No idea when we're getting the last 6 episodes.

It’s gonna be fun comparing this to the Gridman reboot. Especially given how much the story seems to be embracing the latter’s format save that one episode with Bob.

Edited by Beatman1 on Jul 7th 2018 at 3:53:27 PM

Hey everyone.

Tell me does this seem familiar in any way?

This was a previous production of Michael Hefferon's which lasted about 1 season before being cancelled.

Tell me does anything seem... similar?

EDIT: Wrong link. Fixed.

Edited by EchoingSilence on Jul 20th 2018 at 2:25:26 PM

Sigh. So I was scrolling through Netflix and saw there was a second season. Googled it and there's no major reviews or Youtube links.

Did this show fall off the map?

Define second season. The first ten episodes were put up on Netflix a while ago, then ten more episodes where released on YTV later. I'm not sure if that stuff has been released on Netflix yet, but we discussed it here when it was first released. I'm pretty sure the first season was 26 episodes long, meaning that we still have six to go. However those 26 episodes may have been cut up into smaller chunks for broadcast after the fact.

The scheduling of this thing is kind of a mess. The first 10 episodes are released worldwide, except to Canada where Reboot was made, and then several months later the full series runs, and then once that's done the rest of the episodes are uploaded to Netflix.