Chuck's thoughts on ReBoot?

[Yukaphile]

Is there possibly a ReBoot review in the future? I know Season 1 was terrible, but Season 2 onward was epic. Season 4 was meh, but Season 3 was epic as hell. The pinnacle of ReBoot and all that was good about it. I'd love to see Chuck review it. He's a sci-fi/comic book superhero fan, so I think there would be a strong crossover appeal since Season 3 ReBoot had a lot of DC writers onboard, like Dan DiDio, Marv Wolfman, and Len Wein. Plus DC Fontana wrote an episode.

[Beastro]

Season 1 was terrible? It was rough around its edges but still good given the limitations set upon it as it established the setting.

[RobbyB1982]

I rewatched Reboot recently. Season 1 is fine, just limited by the tech of the time mostly. Season 3 is indeed amazing. Shame season 4 was only partially produced and ended on a cliffhanger.

Unless the series was already on the docket before Chuck initiated his "no new series" policy however, and that was a couple years back now, it seems unlikely. He's got about 15 episodes of Beast Wars lined up though including most of its last season, so that's something.

[PerrySimm]

Never realized that ReBoot actually started in 1994, always seemed like a bigger deal later in the 90s.

[Beastro]

It took a bit to get going after season two.

I recall YTV here in Canada played the first season to death and the second was really welcome, but then it took two or so years to get the third in '97 and about four for the fourth in '01.

Comebine the lack of PVR back then with how long two years is to a kid and it lost me after Season two. I was happy to catch it on, but it wasn't something I went out of my way to track down and watch weekly.

[RobbyB1982]

Never realized that ReBoot actually started in 1994, always seemed like a bigger deal later in the 90s.

Thats probably because ABC underpromoted it and buried it in a bad time slot (and also Sonic SatAM) . They also didn't air some episodes at all, like Enzo the Smart.

It wasn't until Cartoon Network aired the series, and the AMAZING season 3, that most people actually caught onto it.

It was also overshadowed by Toy Story... which didn't come out until a year later, and was only an hour and a half, compared to the first two seasons of reboot at that point which were around 500 minutes of CG animation....

[TrueMetis]

Ah reboot, I loved that show as a kid.

FFS all these incredible 90/early 00's show out there that they could do something with and they make shit like Teen Titans Go.

... You know what never mind they'd probably just fuck things up and retroactively make those old shows worse.

[RobbyB1982]

Ah reboot, I loved that show as a kid.

FFS all these incredible 90/early 00's show out there that they could do something with and they make shit like Teen Titans Go.

... You know what never mind they'd probably just fuck things up and retroactively make those old shows worse.

Or in Reboot's case, they make the new Reboot Show which is even more an abomination to the original property than TTG is. At least TTG keeps the characters and voices and rough premise of superhero teens living in a place together. Reboot has no connection at all outside of a villain that is vaguely Megabyte... and has cameos from the old versions of the cast like 10 episodes in.

[Yukaphile]

Well, come on. Season 1 had an episode that revolved around Bob and Dot fighting and, worse yet, a dog farting and then having the main villain step in shit. And I really wanna love the episode with Captain Capacitor, since it is important for continuity's sake, but it's way too slow for me to care about. It has a few good handful of episodes, don't get me wrong, but for me, Season 2 is when the show really begins.

Anyone else consider the Guardians to be an equivalent of like the Green Lanterns and Starfleet officers?

Also, here's eleven words that trash any claim to fame The Guardian Code has: "And Mom said all this time in the basement was wasted." It's presenting the fans of ReBoot as a hateful, offensive nerd stereotype that has passed by this time, and from all accounts it was deliberately taking a shot at one of the fans in the revival project because they took it too far, but the complaints about how this didn't look like the show we grew up with, that it looked more like a crappy Power Rangers or Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad or Code Lyoko ripoff were legit.

[turbo_sailor67]

Ah Reboot, that takes me back. The 90's were fun times as a kid for me with the Playstation coming out and all the awesome games that were on it. Reboot had that kind of a felt to me at the time with its visuals.

The first season was OK I thought. It had some fun episodes, and yeah it did have a bit of that G.I. Joe "nobody ever gets hurt, there are never any consequences for anything" feel to it; but it was different enough that the stakes didn't feel like they were absolutely life and death. Kind of like the stakes of Macbeth are tonally different to say A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The show never seemed to be consistently on TV if memory serves. So I never saw every episode back to back until DVD, and it's still enjoyable to me. The "villains" initially never seem to be more than just those kinds of people who love to haze others; they're not malicious more of an annoyance or disruption. Then later on you get that sudden punch to the gut when Bob actually goes missing for real this time.

I think it improved and had a direction to follow then suddenly they let everything get shut down and restarted and it kinda lost me. I know they tried again to have a new direction to go in but as its been years since I've watched it or looked it up - it just didn't happen correct? A shame but that happened to a number of shows I really liked, most notably The Pirates of Dark Water (with a Janeway cameo as a pirate ghost!)