ReBoot: The Guardian Code (Lyoko)

[Christopher]

Just what were Guardians supposed to be anyway? Well, some sort of quasi-military peacekeeping force, obviously, but what was their purpose or mandate? The early seasons make it seem as though only Guardians were capable of defeating the User in Games, but as we later found out when Bob left, Dot could handle a Game just fine without Bob, and with one exception, Enzo and Andraia did just fine on their own as well. The credits monologue says Guardians "mend and defend" though Mainframe had its own Binome defense force that seems to serve a combination of military and police department

Guardians mend and defend the system itself. I figure they're sort of like antivirus and damage repair programs. The binomes handle everyday crimes and crises that befall the inhabitants of Mainframe, but Bob defends against attacks on the underlying integrity of the world itself, on its programming and operation. Megabyte and Hexadecimal, the main villains, were both computer viruses trying to infect Mainframe, and Bob's job was to protect it from them. The games were a different type of intrusion, though one that could be just as destructive to the individual sprites or binomes trapped within a game, since they'd be turned into Nulls if they lost.

 

[The Wormhole]

Megabyte and Hexadecimal, the main villains, were both computer viruses trying to infect Mainframe, and Bob's job was to protect it from them.

I don't know. Megabyte had a paramilitary force of Binomes which was at least as powerful as Mainframe's Binome defense force, which seemed to be the main thing holding him in check. Indeed, it was after the Web invasion weakened Mainframe's defense force that Megabyte made his play to take over the city. Meanwhile, Hexadecimal always seemed too distracted and mentally ill to pose much of a serious threat. Indeed, by the end of the third season they made her sort of one of the good guys anyway.

 

[Christopher]

I don't know. Megabyte had a paramilitary force of Binomes which was at least as powerful as Mainframe's Binome defense force, which seemed to be the main thing holding him in check. Indeed, it was after the Web invasion weakened Mainframe's defense force that Megabyte made his play to take over the city. Meanwhile, Hexadecimal always seemed too distracted and mentally ill to pose much of a serious threat. Indeed, by the end of the third season they made her sort of one of the good guys anyway.

It's not my opinion. They were literally called viruses in dialogue. Obviously the portrayal of what that meant was fanciful, but it's an inbuilt part of the series premise.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Finally the VR Troopers reboot we were all dying for!

No seriously, I’d rather have Bob.

 

[captainkirk]

This is bad, very bad:

 

[The Wormhole]

Is this actually from the show, or just a photoshop mashup? Because if it is from the show, that's a surprisingly faithful recreation of Mainframe not to mention Bob, Dot, and Enzo.

 

[Christopher]

Is this actually from the show, or just a photoshop mashup? Because if it is from the show, that's a surprisingly faithful recreation of Mainframe not to mention Bob, Dot, and Enzo.

Here's the site that revealed it:

https://www.rebootrevival.com/?p=2774

They say it's genuine. They also disagree with you about its fidelity.

 

[The Wormhole]

Ah, yeah, now that it's actually pointed out, I totally see that Bob Dot and Enzo are rather plastic looking. Also, if this is indeed only one or two episodes as the article suggests, I guess I could see that resulting in semi-accurate replications of the characters, a nostalgia thing. Still strange, given how much they've changed Megabyte though.

 

[captainkirk]

The problem is that while they are surprisingly faithful, they look like derpy wax figures. It's like they're all stuck in the dumb mode from "Enzo the Smart". Also, as that article points out they have the season 1 designs which almost certainly means they're ignoring the cliffhanger from season 4.

 

[The Wormhole]

Also, as that article points out they have the season 1 designs which almost certainly means they're ignoring the cliffhanger from season 4.

Given the sins this show has already committed, that's hardly surprising.

 

[Christopher]

Also, as that article points out they have the season 1 designs which almost certainly means they're ignoring the cliffhanger from season 4.

Unless it's a time-travel plot, or some kind of data replay that the new Guardians are interacting with.

 

[captainkirk]

Unless it's a time-travel plot, or some kind of data replay that the new Guardians are interacting with.

My guess is they're gonna say it's an old backup of Mainframe. However that would mean that since Megabyte has a new updated design that he presumably won and destroyed the original Mainframe.

 

[sloan01]

reboot est juste un remake de code lyoko

 

[Ethros]

Yes it does look terrible. Why did they commission it?... the last couple of seconds of the trailer explained it. It's Netflix. They will commission anything

 

[Captain Crow]

Unlikable wooden generic upper middle class tween archetypes (jock, nerd, outsider, self absorbed, quirky) with the ReBoot IP used for mediocre machinima. And yes it's friggin' machinima. The production company of this show has boasted about using Unreal Engine 4 to make it. They've even big upped the fact that since they're already using game assets they can easily pump out a game with very little effort.

I'm aware this is a reboot and not a continuation and as with most reboots the original show's fandom isn't the target audience. I'm fine with that. But, was the nasty out of nowhere and not even making sense within the context of the show potshot at the original show's fandom in the 10th episode really necessary?

 

[Q2UnME]

^Pot shot? That was a full on slap in the face. The only thing that they got right was the original voice actors for Bob, Dot and Hexadecimal. The modeling was terrible.

The show as a whole lacked the charm, wit and humor of the original. They must have really tried hard to make this mess look worse than what they did almost 20 years ago.

I won’t be watching anymore. I’m obviously not the target demographic for this bland, repetitive dribble.

Q2

 

[Christopher]

Pot shot? That was a full on slap in the face.

Random linguistic observation: It's interesting that "potshot" is considered milder than a slap in the face. I mean, sure, we use it to mean a random or petty criticism, so in that sense, it is milder -- but the original, literal meaning of "to take a potshot" was to kill an animal just for food (i.e. to put it in the cooking pot), rather than concerning oneself with sport or skill, or else to shoot someone at very close range. Which is rather more severe than a mere slap, I'd say.

Not that there's anything wrong with your metaphor, of course. It works fine, unless you're talking to someone as literal-minded and etymology-obsessed as I am. Language is just weird, is all.

 

[The Wormhole]

I figure I'll bump this thread given the first season just finished up on YTV in Canada, including ten extra episodes which were not included on the American Netflix back in the spring.

And to be honest, I'm mostly apathetic towards this show. It really isn't that good or well written, but I'm not going to waste time trashing or slagging it needlessly. Though I will reiterate I don't understand why they bothered to obtain the ReBoot licence given this show has so little to do with the old 90s show.

Although, I do feel the need to go on a bit about the Mainframe episode, in which these new Guardians meet up with the original cast. I really don't get the impression that episode's writer is very familiar with the old show, they write Bob as being aggressive to the point he's the one who starts a fight with the Guardians, and Glitch is strictly a weapon as opposed to a multipurpose tool. And then they end up in a Game, which turns out to be Starship Alcatraz from that season 1 episode where Bob and Dot were feuding. In that episode, the objective was to shoot "stun bubbles" at the escaped prisoners, which would encase them and send them back to their cells. Here, Bob and the Guardians kill them! All of them! Anyone remember when Bob was about finding solutions that didn't involve killing, to the point that he probably ended up allowing Megabyte's Hunt in the cliffhanger the old show's final season ended on?

One more thing I'll go on about.There's a government agency, the Department of Internet Security which straddles the animated and live action stories of the show. They've got to be the most ineffectual law enforcement agency around. Someone arrested by them and held for questioning need only wait until an emergency strikes, thus distracting everyone and making it possible to walk out the front door.

Hmm, went on a bit longer than I intended. Not a show I recommend anyway.