I'll say it again. REBOOT. Yeah, maybe Chuck was a kid when TRON came out, but for me and kids of my generation, especially Cartoon Network addicts, it was REBOOT. And it's not a ripoff, it's paying an homage to all sorts of other material. Hell, Stargate, lol. The Gateway Command looks just like a Stargate. In the desert port system, they have stormtroopers. The Guardians are kinda like Green Lanterns. It's amazing he's never mentioned it even once and no one has asked for it. Especially since he's covering Beast Wars, and... honestly, I think ReBoot is a lot better. For one, the concept holds up better. The CGI, while obviously dated, you can believe because it's within the context of computer programming, an anthropomorphized computer world. Beast Wars is supposed to be set in our contemporary "real world." Do living beings look anything like that? Plus, it just... early ReBoot sucks, same as Beast Wars, with lots of "snickering adolescent male" puerile "boys love farting" jokes, which I roll my eyes at. That rhino saving the day with flatulence, and Frisket in that episode where they rip off Jurassic Park.
For me, ReBoot only begins with Season 2, nothing else. Then the quality instantly ramps up. And Season 3 is just... amazing. Again, Chuck is a huge DC fan. No idea why he wouldn't know of Season 3, since so many DC writers worked on it, and it feels very Noirish in some ways, like how Ray is Silver Surfer, and Matrix is like an edgier Batman. It's just... WOW. They were really pushing it back in those days. I miss the times when visual storytelling was fun.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords