ReBoot Rebooted!

I don't think the last season of Reboot ever aired in the US. If it did, it was probably packaged as the pair of of specials (Daemon Rising and My Two Bobs) and only broadcast once.

So I bet the last a lot of people saw from it was the Gilbert and Sullivan musical wrap up of Season 3.

The Reboot in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn4eqPGbxEE

I remember seeing the season finale on Cartoon Network as syndication, so yeah it did aired here in the states.

Well, looks like I either remember everything wrong, or did not see season 4. Guess there was a cliffhanger.

However, if you reboot Reboot, that does not conclude anything. Reboot is a conclusion.

I don't think I read that right, but again, the problem is that Reboot wasn't finished. It had nothing resembling a conclusion.

I thought it was kind of implicit that in the Reboot setting there couldn't be any kind of meaningful communication between Users and the digital beings outside of games because they lived on a different time scale. Their moment to moment perception existed over mere nanoseconds and to them an entire second was an exceedingly long period of time for anything. And that was in the 90's when CP Us were slower than now.

edited 10th Apr '17 9:42:46 PM by CitizenH

So there's been a few leaks over the weekend, apparently from people working on the spanish dub of the show

Supposedly the video footage comes from the closing scene of the season finale, and it looks like it ends exactly the same as the original does...with Megabyte in charge of everything

There's also a pretty on-point depiction◊ of Hexadecimal

Trailer

So the comments for this are cynical and scathing (YMMV) as they should be.

I enjoyed the original and, while I'm sure I could look back and find things wrong with it narratively, it still stands as a pioneer of CGI animated television far as I knew. This doesn't really live up to that. As someone else said, "this looks more like Code Lyoko than Reboot."

It boggles my mind how executives sit down in a room, drink their coffee, and have a meeting where several individuals agree that taking an old series, advertising a continuation of that series, and then changing the show's core premise and cast will actually sell well. But then again, Netflix produced that awful Death Note film.

I want to be a little optimistic, but they aren't even trying to appeal to me. This isn't like Twin Peaks where it at least resembles the original and features some of the former cast. The only connection to the original Reboot are Megabyte, the word "Guardian," and the symbol on the wall. If you took those three things out then this wouldn't have any connection.

They might as well drop the name and marker this as something else. That would help it, I think. The CGI isn't dazzling and the idea of "kids becoming digital warriors" isn't too inspired, coincidentally because Code Lyoko and Sword Art Online exist. You can certainly go somewhere with that idea, but the look of that trailer really doesn't fill me with much confidence.

edited 23rd Feb '18 8:41:43 AM by Soble

-ah crap actually getting furious the more I type this out-

Fortunately for the actors in this show, Reboot is such an old series that only nerds my age are going to be angry enough to actually criticize it. Most everyone else will probably see it as a generic, boring show, and kids will devour it for being like a video game and having smartphones and evil super-hackers.

What's sad is that movies like Tron get thrown in the dumpster and then shows like this get picked up. I'd be happy if Netflix decided to dust off Tron or Big O or, hell, the original Reboot and try to bring those back.

But, no, Reboot The Guardian Code, the show where all but one of your favorite characters from the original show are removed in favor of four teen actors whom we believe the kids can relate to.

edited 22nd Feb '18 1:15:54 PM by Soble

The live-action Code Lyoko reboot looks great.

edited 22nd Feb '18 5:18:21 AM by LordVatek

Warning: Incoming Disappointment.

.....

Yeah, this is nothing less than atrocious.

I mean honestly, it doesn't look that bad. It looks mediocre or just south of it.

It seems pretty competent for what it's trying to do. It's just what it's trying to do has nothing to do with ReBoot. For a Code Lyoko/Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad/Code Lyoko... thing to appeal to the kids, it seems... mediocre.

It's a shame since ReBoot, despite being aimed at kids, still tried to appeal to adults with substantial Parent Service. This... seems to be trying to alienate adults, meaning it's dumbed down from the original. As an original property I certainly wouldn't think the trailer was awful, and having seen modern Disney Channel shows it's just meh.

Studio Trigger is remaking Syber-Squad/Gridman. I don’t need Canada to do it and call it Reboot.

I remember, when I saw Megabyte in the thumbnail, going "it feels like David Kaye is going to play him".

And then I watched the trailer and the voice was unmistakably his.

Megabyte's new design looks terrible compaired to his original design. Funny how an old design from a 20 year old CGI cartoon can look better than a design made with todays CGI.

The lack of nose is a really silly and overused design element at this point, and really breaks what I feel made Megabyte work as a design; he's an Uncanny Valley mix of man and monster, with a sophisticated voice that falls in unnerving contrast with the more beastlike elements of his design. Dropping the nose from it just makes him read as "cartoon monster with an oversized jaw".

And for the show, it looks like a classic case of "we wanted to do something different, so we made it the same as everything else".

edited 22nd Feb '18 4:37:47 PM by TheGunheart

i'm just not going to watch show neither does anyone else here. if you lie i it's cool. though this does make me feel bad as i had an idea similar to this but a it better in some regards.

Megabyte used to be a terrifying, conniving, classy villain. There were moments like See these where his charac... wait.

Wait, wrong clip. Here, this is the one I was talking about. You can't beat this performance.

This is up there with David Xanatos, Mojo Jojo, Magneto, Mandark, Chairface Chippendale, and Skullmaster for most memorable cartoon villains.

edited 23rd Feb '18 8:45:27 AM by Soble

Apparently Hexadecimal is in this too.

When I said the plot was Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad /Gridman, that wasn’t hyperbole. It’s the exact same setup. A human teams with a sentient AI to cause havoc, and only another human can stop him. Except it’s Code Lyoko instead of Ultraman.

And that show is getting a reboot in the fall. None of this makes any sense.

The one thing I really enjoyed about the original show was that it was a whole other world, there was a sense that the characters lived and died there. The "User" was treated as a deity who manifested in avatars in the games, but otherwise a vague, absent figure. Changing it to a Code Lyoko premise with the focus on "Users" seems to have removed the mythology of that world, they go into a virtual space and have to do battle in an artificial construct and not an actual city built by its residents. Code Lyoko was just a modest success and not exactly a big franchise, so slapping the ReBoot logo to a knock-off just doesn't make sense (in fact, the production history makes it sound like nobody was interested in a more traditional "reboot" of the show and this was the only way to get anything going).

All that said, the animation doesn't look that bad, same with the overall production design. If the show proves me wrong and shows the virtual space as an actual world the main characters are visiting, that might redeem the premise just a little.

When I said the plot was Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad /Gridman, that wasn’t hyperbole. It’s the exact same setup. A human teams with a sentient AI to cause havoc, and only another human can stop him. Except it’s Code Lyoko instead of Ultraman. And that show is getting a reboot in the fall. None of this makes any sense.

Gridman Anime Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wSnVVXVF8

The first ten episodes of the show have dropped on Netflix.

For nostalgia nulls, the tenth episode features the original Reboot cast

While I haven't seen episode ten yet, I think some of the stories are ok-ish, though I have very minimal tolerance for VERA. Episode 3 is the closest in-tone and theme to the original show and probably my favorite at the moment

As a Reboot sequel, it kind of misses the point a lot, but the Power Rangers fan in me thinks this is better than the current season of legit Power Rangers.

Chuck Austen's wife Anne Austen is also the story editor, she worked on Power Rangers seasons like Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder.

edited 31st Mar '18 5:57:42 AM by Zarius

...how so?

The new Guardians travel to Mainframe. Mainframe also briefly shows up in episode two when Sorcerer revives Megabyte

edited 31st Mar '18 9:39:37 AM by Zarius