a5c7b9f00b ReBoot: TGC follows the journey of four teenagers, Austin, Parker, Tamra, and Trey. On their first day at Alan Turning High, these unsuspecting teens discover they've been preselected to become the Next-Generation Guardians of Cyberspace with a mission to save the world - by defending it in cyberspace. With the help of VERA, an artificial intelligence bio-constructed as a teenage girl, ReBoot: TGC's heroes digitize into cyberspace where they use their code-based powers to combat viruses unleashed by a merciless hacker. Known only as the 'Sourcerer', this devious hacker seeks to rule the world by controlling cyberspace, and it's up to the Guardians to stop him. Im only bothering to write this to express the ridiculousness of the people that give this show 9/10 or 10/10. You say this is a show for kids, you insult an older generation who still loves the original show, you say this show is good because it introduces a new generation to a show they might otherwise have never known existed. Then theres the argument that your childhood is still intact and you can always go back and watch the old stuff. These are all weak, short-sighted, and selfish arguments. If you want to watch a brainless Power Ranger rip-off, with cliche plots, dialog that took 5 minutes to write, and bad acting, there are plenty of other options out there for your kids who apparently will eat up ANYTHING put in front of them. Of course, Im not blaming the kids for this, while some kids are much more critical in thinking about what they watch, most young kids just like anything colorful with a lot of noise and action, and thats perfectly fine and normal. I do however, blame the parents they know this, and yet try to give this show a high rating, with the justification "because their child likes it", and they so desperately want to believe their child is more advanced than they really are. <br/><br/>This show was a cheap, talentless cash grab, and everyone behind this show knows it, so why dont the rest of you, who make these petty arguments about it being a show for kids, realize this? Ive got news for you, if they werent trying to grab the attention and views of the original audience, they wouldnt have called it Reboot, and they wouldnt have made references to the old show, so there goes that argument out the window! We all know this cheap, processed, cookie cutter show could have been called anything, but they knew it wouldnt go anywhere without name recognition, so they sold out the old fans for some quick cash.<br/><br/> To those of you saying that without this show, youd never know ReBoot existed, well that could be seen as your own fault (its not hard to hear about or see something about Reboot from SOMEONE out there on the internet, possibly your parents fault (for showing you mindless garbage instead of older stuff from their childhoods, before the days of cheap animation and spoiled, angry modern animators that hate anything classic for some reason), or perhaps the fault of all the networks that wouldnt support and carry on the original show. You could almost just as easily have watched the old series at some point in time in some way. If you ended up liking it, is it wrong to be upset because you recognize that the old series was butchered for a cash grab? If you didnt know about the old series, then you also didnt know how the fans have been waiting for the show to come back, you wouldnt know about the rough history of the original series, and since you dont know about those things, maybe you just shouldnt open your mouth and criticize other people over things you dont understand. If youre a 30+ something and/or a parent, did you give up your right to enjoy childish things you grew up with? If so, thats your choice, but you dont speak for everyone of your generation, and if youre in your late teens/early twenties, would you like to be told your too old to enjoy the things you were enjoying just a few years ago? Im guessing no, so dont go trying to tell other people that shows like this are only for you or younger kids. Youre going to get older and watch the things you love get butchered and youre going to complain like the people you are criticizing now, and you will want people to understand why its so upsetting to you. Its not because fans of old shows, movies, etc., are unstable (though some can be at times), its because we are all just kids at heart and the things that make some of us happy in this crappy world feel timeless, and as we get older we want to welcome the next generation to enjoy it as well, but instead the older generations just get crying and whining from brainless corporate shills that have been trained to defend whatever dumbed down garbage these networks churn out. Disclaimer: I am not the "intended" audience for this show, Adults will watch kids shows regardless if the creators intended them to or not, this is clearly a kid's show with it's target audience being around 8-12. It is not a very impressive show but it is tolerable at best. Children watching this show may very well be mollified for the duration, they may even come to enjoy it. <br/><br/>No, I am not an old ReBoot fan complaining about the new direction this show has taken the franchise. I'm entering this franchise blind but now that I've seen it I'd rather find the original show and watch that, it shows more promise and has held up better than this ever will.<br/><br/>The concept of teenagers going to High-school and secretly saving the world as an extra-curricular is not a new one. It's rather tiring how often it's been done over the years and ReBoot: The Guardian Code is no exception to the rules. With obvious "references" to older shows and movies that followed the same premise but did the concept much better.<br/><br/>These new Guardians of Cyberspace and their AI friend VERA are rather bland and stereotypical tropes, even for this kind of show, so much so that I couldn't really remember their names by the end. Though some character development does occur over the episodes and the actors seem to enjoy their roles well enough. The implied plot that they are enrolled as de-facto Guardians purely because they have a combined high score of a rather lack-luster mobile game is disappointing. Just because they can play a mobile game does not mean they are capable of the huge role they have been given, sorry to disappoint any hopeful Guardians out there.<br/><br/>The Sourceror is the most ridiculous portrayal of a hacker. His constant self-exposition and general hammy acting makes him not much of a threat but children will find it easy to hate him non-the-less, without the Delete key to keep Megabyte on a leash the show could very well do without him. It would however render The DIS obsolete, something the show could also do without. The DIS are a very forgettable portrayal of the typical government task force that doesn't seem capable of doing it's job without the help of our four teenage protagonists. The "Dark Code" the Sourceror utilizes is very much a reminder this is a kid's show and does it a disservice as it gives children a false impression of current technology and how it can be exploited.<br/><br/>Megabyte; a virus with a very detailed history in the original show has returned. With a different voice actor and appearance he was probably the only thing that kept me interested throughout simply by speaking, he feels stunted in personality because of the Sourceror's influence which is regrettable. The voice actor does not seem to hold up the part particularly well when the character's voice is raised above speaking level, again that is regrettable but a commendation for effort as portraying such an iconic character is a hard task for anyone. I don't understand why the original model prior to the upgrade could not have been kept, clearly care and attention was given to the remaking the model and it was wasted. The new model does not look as intimidating as the original but it serves it's purpose.<br/><br/>Hexadecimal; another virus with history in the original show was my favourite part of episode 10, the banter between her and Megabyte feels like it was scripted much better than most of the show. Her character seems to be considered the most accurate of all of the older returning characters I've read thus far. I hope Hex turns up more in the next ten episodes, she might just make the rest of this show bearable.<br/><br/>Bob, Dot and Enzo… Oh we are a sorry looking set of sprites aren't we? They look too plastic to be part of their environment. Their purpose in this episode seems to be entirely to give the fans of the original something to look forward to, and suffice it to say they don't cut the cyber-mustard for me either. The original voice actors for Dot and Bob are nice, but they seem to be lacking the spirit of said characters to the fans. <br/><br/>The constant cutting to the fan they say it is the User is rather out of place. but it seems like the character as a whole is a dig at the older ReBoot community by Rainmaker and I am not the only one to feel this way, how crude of the makers of this show to treat the older fans this way. They drove the spirit of the show on for the past 17 years hoping for a faithful revival and they are considered to be nothing but "basement-dwelling neckbeards" to the creators of this show? How ghastly, I don't think I could commit to the rest of this show knowing that fan-loyalty means nothing to them.
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