#reboot reboot

[sa1ntday]

just watched it and, no playa, no gat, no shaundi, no pierce, gonna cry in my room for a week

[wandaposting]

every wanda maximoff scene 1/?

[ask-rk800-connor-dbh]

>;3 -🌹

-Crashed-

-Attempting a reboot…-

[lordsmaf]

[skinteresting-enough]

So... Reboot: The Guardian Code

Disclaimer: At the moment of writing this, I have only watched three episodes of the original Reboot series. As such, I can’t really judge whether TGC is faithful to the old cartoon or not, except for really obvious details. I do plan to watch the rest of the series, when I have some time.

I am, however, a fan of Code Lyoko, and since everyone who’s heard of both Code Lyoko and TGC has compared those two, well, I’ll just jump on the bandwagon and see how TGC holds up in comparison to Code Lyoko.

The good: I quite like the look of cyberspace in this series, and I do think that the missions that the guardians carry out have more potential to be interesting than CL’s “defeat monsters and deactivate the tower, rttp” plots. In Code Lyoko’s fourth season, the group goes to “replicas”, and I think it would’ve been more interesting if those replicas were modeled after the computer they were in, except with a tower of course.

I also love, love, love Vera. Hands down, best character, everyone else can go home. I really liked the episode in which she tried giving herself emotions, only to find herself unable to deal with them. Intensely relatable, if you’re a volatile emotional wreck like me.

Okay now for:

The bad: I get that they had to keep the guardians’ faces hidden so the Sourcerer wouldn’t find out who they were irl, but I think their cyber-selves could have been a bit more stylized. I don’t necessarily mean stylized like in Code Lyoko (lord knows I can’t take any more “large forehead” jokes), but stylized as in, a bit more cartoony, but just a bit, since the main characters in the original reboot also looked fairly realistic.

I also think I would have liked it better if they kept the Sourcerer a bit more in the shadows, more of a force that’s at work behind the scenes but that we don’t see directly. Hell, maybe even make it vague if he’s a human or a virus!

On the other hand, that might be a bit too much like Code Lyoko. Moving on...

And the ugly: Okay, I just finished watching the last episode of TGC and I just gotta vent about this, but people, can we get rid of fucking love triangles? I mean, can you say strangled by the red string? Vera doesn’t even have emotions, why the hell does Parker think she’s romantically interested in him OR Trey?

I also think that they had a lot of subplots that they dropped the ball on. Either literally, in the case of the spheres subplot, or figuratively, in the case of the DIS. The spheres are built up as this huge plot point, the key to the past of the technology, but they only show the content of one sphere and completely forget about the second sphere by the end of the season.

They may pick up these plot threads in a next season, but I am seriously doubting a second season will happen, what with all the hate this season has gotten even before the official release.

Also, if they made a Code Lyoko reboot, claimed it as non-canon (as I’ve heard people say about TGC), and yet include the main characters of the original series only in the very last episodes as secondary characters at best, I think I would be pissed too. I mean, yeah, there’s a chance that they’ll play a bigger role in a next season, but still... Pissed.

Either make it a full reboot, or focus more on the things that people love about the original, you cowards!

One final thing: Honestly, if they actually claimed that this was a Code Lyoko reboot, I would’ve been more ready to believe it than I do the fact that it’s supposed to be a Reboot reboot. If it was a true Reboot reboot, I think they should have focused more on life inside the net, and how it differs from the human world. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but that was what the original series was about, life for the programs inside the computer, right? Maybe have a subplot about the guardians experiencing culture shock when inside the net, or what have you.

I bet the rights to Code Lyoko were more expensive than the rights to Reboot, and that’s why they tried to brand this as a Reboot reboot.

Anyway, those are my thoughts about Reboot: The Guardian Code. Do you agree? Do you disagree? I gladly invite discussion, as long as it doesn’t attract trolls.

[leighlikescartoons]

A Look at ReBoot: The Guardian Code (Official Trailer)

Now, I’ve never watched the original ReBoot, it was a little before my time. It started airing after the era of cartoons I’m drawn to (60′s-80′s) and stopped airing before my memory started cataloging any information. I feel the need to say that because of just how disappointed everyone who did watch Reboot seem to be.

I also love Power Rangers. My favorite series, that isn’t animated, is Power Rangers Jungle Fury. The ridiculous fights, gratuitous explosions, and almost good, but still nacho cheesy dialogue is the guiltiest of guilty pleasure for me. ReBoot: The Guardian Code looks like a show that will be stuffed full and ready to burst with just that. 

The trailer opens with who can only be the villain. A dark, dingy warehouse, things all over the floor. Zip-up hoodie, black, hood up and walking towards a computer with 6-8 monitors of various shades of purple. Typing on one keyboard and hitting enter on the other. Oh yeah, there’s no doubt in my mind. This guy is a hacker and a good one at that. They’re not pulling out any stops with this villain straight out of the 90′s.

Cut to... a school. Well, of course it’s a school, cause it’s gonna be one of those shows. Kids love shows set in high-school for whatever reason. “Alan Turing High, only the most tech progressive school in the city,” one of the main characters says into the front facing camera of a smartphone. Landscape, but upturned just slight, so the actual camera can get a good sweeping shot of her talking mechanically into what I can only assume is her vlog. 

Ok... a few things right off the bat. First and foremost, “the most tech progressive school in the city.” What city? How many tech progressive schools are in your city? You know this is fictional right? Dude lie. Most tech progressive school in the state, country, world! You picked city? You may as well have said “Most tech progressive school on this street. Boo. Second, she’s talking into a front facing smart phone. If you’re gonna go cheesy, go cheesy baby. Make it a camcorder in one hand, while she’s idly scrolling through a PDA in the other. Remember PDA’s? How can you not put one in a show like this? I mean, come on.

“Nothing happens on the first day of school!” Except mad dunks and a kid moving into the basketball court because it’s his house now. I have to give props to vlog girl, because she nailed the newtuber vibe. The, ‘I’ll just point a camera at myself and hope for the best. Charisma? Naaaaah don’t need that. I’ll just go with the monotone approach. Will I be entertaining? We’ll see.’.

Austin and Parker get reassigned to homeroom “0″ and there’s this great fadecut. It’s quite possibly my favorite moment in any trailer I’ve ever seen. The duo look at each other, the scene fades to... a scene where they’re standing in the exact same positions staring at each other in the exact same way. It only lasts a second before Austin pulls Parker closer in a sort of half-hug, but it’s fantastic. Bravo to who ever edited the trailer together.

So then they get transported into, what I can only assume is the cyber-world. They’ve got a great color scheme. Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. Where have I seen this before? Anyways, I have a strong feeling that Austin, the lanky kid that looks like the “Caucasian 1″ preset in every video game ever, all decked out in red is probably going to be the leader. Then there’s Trey, the one who moved into the Basketball Court in blue, who’s going to be the hot headed second in command. He’ll probably have an episode where he gets mad and runs off to deal with the bad guy alone only to get saved by everyone else with a big ‘ol “We’re a team!” message at the end. Then there’s Parker, short and in green. He’s be the dorky one. Well, they’re all dorks, but he’ll be the extra dorky one who knows every little thing about everything. Finally Tamra, the vlogger in yellow. She’ll almost definitely be... the girl who most likely won’t do anything remarkable because the writers don’t actually know how to write a cool girl character. You just write her the same as you would write a cool guy character, it’s not that hard. But I’m rooting for you Tamra, hopefully you’ll get to be more than the girl that red and blue both have a crush on and end up fighting over. Because that’s lame.

Then comes VERA. An artificial intelligence that gets put into a physical body. My favorite type of character. No, it actually is, like no sarcasm. Aya, from Green Lantern the Animated Series? Fantastic. She saved Hal, Razor, and Kilowag more than once. Great character. Plus it adds to that cheesy factor I just really adore.

Finally we have a good look at the action and what the animation will look like while various characters spout lines in the background giving vague plot points. This part of the trailer is important because it tells you a few things. A) This is a cheesy high-schoolers saving the world type show and you can’t really expect much out of it. 2) The bad guy is trying to... do something for... a reason. C) The action scenes are going to be worth any painful dialogue and jokes that come along with the cheesy premise.

All in all, I’m pretty excited. If this show aired Week-to-Week, I wouldn’t even bother, but since Netflix picked it up, it’ll shape up to be a few enjoyable mornings worth of television.

[trii-aan]

I think something to consider about the use of live action elements in Reboot: The Guardian Code is the human relation to technology today verse the human relation to technology back in the 90s. The relation, back in the 90s, is represented by The User in the original Reboot. The intended audience for the show was for children, so it made sense to focus on how, children as users, interacted with computers, which was mainly through games, back in the 90s. Narratively speaking it connected to the real world creating an explanation for why video games could be so challenging, which was because the computer/mainframe was trying to defend itself, because every time the user, in the show, would win, a piece of mainframe would essentially be obliterated.

Despite the show being one of my favorites growing up, my understanding of this part of the narrative was only something that I have recently come to understand.