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Did Reboot age well?
Still the best animated show Canada has produced.
The original series did, yes. The sequel series- Guardian Code- maybe I'm wrong? Is it just me? I didn't like it.
There is no sequel series. And there never will be!
there's already 2 seasons
Saw it for the first time a year or 2 ago, I liked it for the most part
I miss Tony Jay every other goddamn day.
once enzo and andrAIa grew up, yes.
Season 1 is rough. Season 2 gets better as it goes on. Season 3 is kino. Season 4 is alright but a clear step down. Guardian Code is a different series wearing Reboots flesh so I’m not even entertaining it.
boomer shit don't age well, because it's old, things that are old don't age well I should know because I am not old
kys zoomer.
season 1 is rough as frick even back then. They didn't know what they were doing, and they only had a few computers I was by someone who worked on the show. That things got better for season 2/3 they were able to get more computer graphics cards became "cheap" and they didn't have to soley use those uh STI? computers. What was once a 50k computer in 1994. You were able to get desktops and slap two voodoo cards in it. So most the work was done on many desktops and all the rendering and etc was done on the sti machines plus some other stuff.
The jump from season 1 to 2 is large and the jump from season 2 to 3 was fricking huge. Which makes sense when you consider what a 3D PC game in 96 looked like compared to 2000. GPU's became common and cheap(its sad how voodoo died) Intel became 100% of the market AMD was shit till 98? nivida had yet to cause house fires ATI was starting out 3DFX came out of nowhere and grabbed the PC market by the balls with its voodoo range of graphics cards sold their rights to any maker and sadly died to moronation and greed. 3DFX is the reason why PC became the master race for gaming it also made animating in 3D and etc shit something anyone could do now, without having to spend thousands if not tens of thousands on bullshit custom hard&software for a work station. You could get a beefy computer that held 2 graphics cards and a shit load of ram.
The coolest company was cyrix they were able to reverse engineer intel cpu's in the 90's including pentiums. They would cost 25-50% less so if you wanted to build a PC and did not give a frick you went with cyrix or amd(which would be a bad idea till the late 90's). Intel took them to court a few times and lost everytime. Intel seething as hell changed some stuff with the CPU that could not be cloned so by like 96's at least with gaming it would not be on par with its intel cpu it would be worse a lot worse. But if you wanted a cheap pc it worked they died a few years later tho.
Season 3 also had a 1 1/2 year gap in production, during which they got Beast Wars and war Planets which boosted their funds considerably, too.
I’m definitely going to rewatch Reboot now.
Dot is so hot, bros. Her catsuits finna have me acting unwise.
The owner of this computer must have the patience of a saint. He loses every game he plays because the computer literally cheats.
Technically, some games are programmed to cheat to add artificial difficulty.
Enzo, Dot, and Bob are not programs of the games though. They enter them and break their rules. It'd be like your operating system being able to insert code into your games.
>your operating system being able to insert code into your games
Anon, I...
especially back when this show was made. games were hard as NUTS before the 64-bit era. And they only had between like 20 minutes and 4 hours of content, so they had to be.
Assuming they weren't just bugged with absolutely no way to patch. I grew up with BBC Micro and Acorn computers, and there was a Repton game that was unwinnable because it shipped with a single block in a puzzle in the wrong place.
Oh God I'm old when did that happen I remember having Megabytes in my primary school lunchbox like it was yesterday
>the computer literally cheats
The tool bob uses to cheat so often is literally named Glitch.
Maybe the user just thinks his computer is really glitchy?
Most games cheat though.
the crazy part is that if he actually wins at the game, it damages his hard drive and destroys sectors
I think it's less destroying the hardrive and more rewriting parts and taking up space.
Ah back in the 90's when you needed to clean your harddrive weekly or it would become slowler and shittyierish. What was that shit called again CCcleaner? Rather funny you needed format? what was it again moving shit arounds deleting stuff making it so the drive needed to do less passes to grab data and align everything?
Jerked too many times to that elvira style outfit.
Reboot knew /exactly/ how to use status quo and how to change it. It's impressive- though arguable because it was made over about 8-9 years- but still. Season 1 sets up the status quo, Season 2 expands a bit before making a huge turn with more arc based stories, season 3 goes insane with completely growing Enzo and Bob and changing everything, the movies are a meta commentary of sorts. That closing teaser hits well because we've seen Megabyte's plans countless times now, we've seen him pull off Megaframe, but now he's just out to hurt.
There was a fan webcomic where he turned everyone into zombies. Bob was sent back for disciplining. Enzo gets enrolled in gaurdian training. Megabyte starts his own cult.
Megabyte canonically cuckedcBob.
I remember talk for years of their being a live action movie in the works, and was going to be Tron Legacy inspired.
Did we ever found out what were the original plans for a hypothetical Season 5? (counting the 2 movies as Season 4)
Am I the only one who wishes Bob would have remained in his fused form, or at least the web-degraded form, if they absolutely needed to separate him from Glitch?
It's not that I don't like his regular form, but both the degraded and fused form looked so badass for me.
Season 1 feels like an early Pixar demo reel at times. Hack & Slash's colours and roundness in particular are something out of early commercial pitches.
They were forced to be as kiddy as possible by the network they were on and their own moron higher ups. By the back half of season 2 the show runners had the reigns more and it shows.
Yeah. The change in the tone is something you have to binge watch the show to properly enjoy. Everything is wonder at first. A parade of colourful situations marches in your screen. There are stakes but the heroes always win while being goofy, so things don't feel very serious. Then Bob goes missing and you get to appreciate how good a job he was actually doing. Everything falls apart and Enzo, who wasn't purpose-built like Bob was, is crushed between the difficulties and the weight of everyone's hopes. The Mortal Kombat scene is nightmarish. Partially because of the old CG.
Hilarious to me that an X-files parody segways into the finale where the system is invaded by the internet and Bob gets jettisoned. But yeah, Enzo’s development is immaculate. His fight with Megabyte overshadows many of the modern character driven cartoons we see nowadays imo.
One of the things I loved about Enzo's development is that he ended up being his own man. He wanted to be like Bob but he instead became a renegade and he was okay with it. Having Matrix and Enzo next to eachother was also funny. Not only because he bugged Matrix but because he was like "I'll be like my grown self when I grow up!" and everyone else told him not to. It was probably meant as a comment on kids being drawn to violent characters but I saw it more as an ironic situation.
>Demon attempts Talk no Jitsu
>*blam*
unironically the X-Files episode is what essentially really kickstarted Scott McNeil's voice acting career into high gear, one of the Hasbro/Kenner execs for Beast Wars when he found out Scott voiced Fax Modem he was like dude you were so awesome and essentially guaranteed him a slot on Beast Wars
>Megabyte demands Enzo fights him "like a man"
>immediately gets socked in the jaw so hard that he flies across the room
>the look of shock on megabytes face when he realizes Enzo dented his chest with just a punch
Pure kino.
Took me way too long to realize Bob and the Guardians were all basically the Green lantern Corp.
>Military organization meant to maintain order
>All are assigned a tool that can do almost anything needed by the wearer that requires concentration to use properly
> All use an oath that varies depending on the character
>Guardian!
>He's a hero to the end
>His code to mend and defend
>When evil stands to conquer all
>His only hope
>A FIREWALLLLL!!
Didn't these guys also make a show about space aliens
How was that
>Don't mind me, just surfing the web
voiced by Mel Gibson's brother which makes the whole Bad Bob episode really funny in hindsight.
Dot, Andrea, Mouse, or Hex?
Daemon
I believe this was the very first fully CGI serialized tv show.
They literally were writing the book when they made this show. If anything it has historical significance for computer CGI.
I feel like more people should know about ReBoot.
I wonder how Reboot would have depicted Cinemaphile
probably hell