ReBoot complete series to DVD in 2011
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Yeah, but isn't also supposed to have a general release (as in in stores, available to order some place other than Shout!'s website) later on this year? I'll wait until then.
Man, that show got dark as it went on.
Per the TR link, the first combined two seasons are on sale at Amazon.
That it did. Never saw S4, but the S2 finale was dark as hell, and so was much of S3.
Season 3 is easily the darkest of the series. But despite the grimness it still had a sense of fun and each episode usually had at least one joke or something to make you smile.
Ooh, thanks for the article; would never have seen that otherwise. 
From the link:
From the link:
So the whole series in two separate releases will retail for about fifty combined, but the same content plus a few features will cost an extra twenty? That makes no sense at all. Still, good to know I'll be able to get the last four eps of S3 (already have the first three, and the middle eight are terrible) for less, plus the S4 (which I'm not sure I even want to see).
I'll agree, the arc focusing on Matrix and Andraia travelling the Net through games isn't the best, though the parody of The Prisoner was fun, and I did enjoy the last part of the arc where they learn of the Guardians' plight. However, I quite enjoyed the arc where they were with the pirates searching the Web for Bob.
Huh. It's funny; way back in the day, I had Canadian friends who sent me two vhs tapes: one with the first four S3 eps, and the other with the last four, and I didn't see the middle ones until years later. In a way, it was rather more mysterious and even satisfying to not see the in-between stuff; to keep the focus on Dot and Mainframe, and share in their shock when the rest of the gang comes back so different.
So maybe the middle ones weren't actually terrible, though I vaguely remember the Web as being far less menacing and scary then the earlier hints of it had suggested, but with "Matrix" so grim, Andraia so plain (not that that's a bad thing per se; her milder personality fits in very well with the larger group), and few to none of the other regulars... well, maybe I'll have to give them a try again, but I can't shake the feeling that it might be best to continue skipping from 3.4 to 3.13. After all, it's always nice when one came frame a series as being primarily about a woman, innit?
So maybe the middle ones weren't actually terrible, though I vaguely remember the Web as being far less menacing and scary then the earlier hints of it had suggested, but with "Matrix" so grim, Andraia so plain (not that that's a bad thing per se; her milder personality fits in very well with the larger group), and few to none of the other regulars... well, maybe I'll have to give them a try again, but I can't shake the feeling that it might be best to continue skipping from 3.4 to 3.13. After all, it's always nice when one came frame a series as being primarily about a woman, innit?
I kind of see what you're getting at. I was actually completely opposed to the change of direction the series seemed be taking when I first saw 3x5. Enzo all grown up and a badass mercenary, Andraia grown up and kind of sexy, no more Mainframe, what the hell was this? I didn't really start warming up to things until 3x8 when the story began unfolding, and then we hit the Web arc and I was once again enthralled by the show.
When I watched those episodes in reruns, I was less harsh on them since I knew where the story was heading. That being said, 3x5 is still a it of a drag, it's just so meh. Likewise 3x6, though this gets a slightly higher grade for being a Trek parody with all kinds of fun, if a little too obvious in-jokes. I do agree the final arc of the season is indeed the best, 3x13 and 3x14 are quite possibly the best of the series.
Well, season 2 consistently built the Web up as some sort of dark and evil place, and in season 3 we discover that all it really is is a region where lawless bands of nomads prey on anything that passes by.
Meanwhile, did Bob's arrival on the pirate ship just as it seemed the Web Riders had won and urging them to stop because these were his friends remind anyone else of Dune when Paul orders the Fremen to stop the raid on the spice mining outpost because he recognized Gurney? I read Dune several years after watching Reboot, and when I read that part I was instantly reminded of that scene. But maybe that's just me.
When I watched those episodes in reruns, I was less harsh on them since I knew where the story was heading. That being said, 3x5 is still a it of a drag, it's just so meh. Likewise 3x6, though this gets a slightly higher grade for being a Trek parody with all kinds of fun, if a little too obvious in-jokes. I do agree the final arc of the season is indeed the best, 3x13 and 3x14 are quite possibly the best of the series.
Well, season 2 consistently built the Web up as some sort of dark and evil place, and in season 3 we discover that all it really is is a region where lawless bands of nomads prey on anything that passes by.
Meanwhile, did Bob's arrival on the pirate ship just as it seemed the Web Riders had won and urging them to stop because these were his friends remind anyone else of Dune when Paul orders the Fremen to stop the raid on the spice mining outpost because he recognized Gurney? I read Dune several years after watching Reboot, and when I read that part I was instantly reminded of that scene. But maybe that's just me.
^ This is when I started to watch "Reboot" again. I loved Bob being lost and Enzo losing and being trapped in the games.
Yeah, I guess really living up to the dark/evil intimations would have crossed the kid-friendly line they'd already been pushing up against, but it still felt like a big letdown, particularly after my initial viewing sequence, when Enzo's battered and gruff appearance could partly be chalked up to his time in the Web, rather than being fully formed before he even got to it. It also retroactively detracted from the final victory of banishing Megabyte to there, in that it didn't seem like a place he'd have too much trouble in.
It was implied that the Web was some kind of opposing force to the Net that invaded and conquered systems, like some Data Empire. I guess they must have just been referring to Web Creatures occasionally attacking systems and then leaving/being exterminating.
Also, when someone from the Net stays in the Web too long it starts to affect them and their very code: Bob was starting to degrade into something else, the webriders were all mutated sprites and Megabyte was transformed into a new deadlier type of virus. So that's another level of danger that the very reality of the place changes you.
Also, when someone from the Net stays in the Web too long it starts to affect them and their very code: Bob was starting to degrade into something else, the webriders were all mutated sprites and Megabyte was transformed into a new deadlier type of virus. So that's another level of danger that the very reality of the place changes you.
