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Reboot To Get A Reboot
superstick58 writes "Reboot, one of the first CG animated TV shows is returning as a trilogy of feature-length films. This was a great cartoon for me, perhaps it also helped stimulate other developing nerds to embrace the computers that are supposedly run by these enjoyable CG characters."
It wasn't one of the first, it was THE first full length computer animated tv show. An awesome one to boot. I hope these films are as dark as it got in the 3rd season.
I was kinda surprised when I read that. But then again they are remaking everything now. What's next Robotech?
I hope they continue where the original story left off, with Megabyte in the Principal office. We still have yet to see a conclusion to that!
Max Headroom would be proud.
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Anyone else have the hots for Dot Matrix? She needs some bikini time in this.
one of the press releases said they were getting fan submissions for storylines...
do you really want REBOOT FANFICTION?
What he said: 'Zeros 2 Heroes president Matt Toner sees the Internet as a democratizing medium. "It takes away gatekeepers," he said. "We want to connect the fans with the producers ... and let them determine what the next hits will be. When it comes to long-standing genre entertainment properties, the fans are the real experts."'
What he meant: 'We want to monetize this stagnant property, and we think we can do it by promoting the illusion of choice.'
Wankers.
It's nice to see a canadian show getting its due.
It was far more entertaining by the third season when Enzo grew up and got really pissed off... it was a nice dark twist.
It won't be the same without the original voice actors. And the post-season 1 (or was it 2?) voice for Bob just never sat right with me.
I for one am very happy to see this happen. Granted with the concern about `bad` fan fiction entering and spoiling it for all the rest of us reboot fans, im gonna go out on a limb here and have some faith in the site they are setting up to allow discussion on content. I have personally not heard of anything like this before (feel free to correct me on that though, im curious now) but if it works then maybe we will see more of this, else if it fails and crash `n` burns horribly then we will all learn from the failures and perhaps try again some day.
If someone has missed ReBoot and has no idea what's going on, see this happy video it is quite informative (or search the internets for "Daemon Rising", after all, daemon is the word...)
Don't forget the awesome summary of season 3. (For those who never watched it).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColRwxkC1FY
I crack up every time I watch it.
I hope they manage to tie up the few loose threads left in S4.
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I completely forgot the show until I read the article then everything just snapped into place like a keyword programmed into my head to kill the Malaysian Prime Minister. The show definitely had a subliminal effect on my interest in the field of technology and it would be great to see it again.
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I wish they would remake Tron, the movie the quiet possibly inspired reboot...the "Tron 2.0" game ploy wasn't half bad, but alas it would seem Disney scrapped the project.
At least some of you had a chance to see it. Be glad for that much.
BTW some of you have always wish your latest video card could do CG. Well reboot would be perfect for that proof.
Overall I'm mixed, but honestly this could be somewhat entertaining, I'm curious to if they'll keep the original style or "improve". It was like futurama gone cgi with some creative ideas in it. Plus wasn't this like somewhat breakthrough animation back in the early cgi days of Reboot, Beast Wars, all that stuff?
"I was kinda surprised when I read that. But then again they are remaking everything now. What's next Robotech?"
They're remaking Lassie. Lassie leaves Timmy stranded out in the middle of nowhere. "Lassie: let's see you find your way home without me, bub"
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...That they're finally going to resolve the cliffhanger ending of the series. A great show that really deserved a comeback.
Reboot was by far one of the best series of the 90's. For a kid's cartoon it's storylines and such even appealed to teenagers and adults (come on, how cool was Enzo grown up as Matrix?). To date the episode where Megabyte and Bob have a guitar battle is one of the coolest things in animation I've ever seen.
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How many read the title of the post to mean something involving a new Vista error producing endless reboots following an update?
There's nothing stopping anyone from creating a sequel on the Lithtech engine.*
*Except copyright AND talent.
Next is Alvin and the Chipmunks -- in CG, by the director of the second, suckier Garfield movie. At the rate we're going we can soon expect a movie remake of Sonic the Hedgehog the TV show ("SatAM" to furries). Thrill to ubernerd furry lust for an all-CG Princess Sally.
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Seasons 1-2 were fairly good for what they were, decent kid/teen animated series. Some of them stood out, most didn't, but almost all were entertaining.
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But Season 3 was da bomb. Dark, desperate storylines. Excellent writing. Character development for almost everyone, every episode. Storylines popping up, fading away, and coming back again. Characters that you worried about because they really felt disposable, that they could die any episode. I was supremely disappointed to see it end after that season. It was better written and more interesting than most series on TV. The only good thing was that it spawned Shadow Raiders, which was also an excellent series, though short-lived.
I kinda liked (Season 4)/(The mini-movie), but I've always been hooked on the elements of Season 3. Although I can see why they'd like to restart the series, in a way I wish they'd just continue with the storyline in a way that new viewers could pick up on. Either way, I'll be a definite viewer.
Matrix should be one of the top 100 heroes of all time. Mostly because he's a compilation of all of them.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
I'm young enough to remember it being on in the afternoon, but old enough that I could tell the show had hollow plot and was just a lame excuse to have a CG tv show. watching it made me feel dirty. lame, lame, lame.
The Cyberiad was the first CG TV show, however, only the pilot episode was aired.
Based of course on the Lew stories (the book is amazing, highly recommend it.)
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I have to say, I really didn't know if they were going to live or die.
Seriously, Season 3 was so dark that killing off everyone was a distinct possibility.
When I saw the "reboot" and "restore" on the screen, I was cheering!
And for a 40 something guy to be so caught up in a "children's" tv series, well, either I'm more of a geek than I thought, or it was such a well done series.
Take your pick.
I felt the same way about Futurama. To this day, I will not watch "Jurassic Bark" when it comes up in the [adult swim] rotation. The wait for Futurama to hit the Comedy Central schedule will be awful.
I hope that the rebooted ReBoot will be as good as the original.
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Yes! I'm so excited that ReBoot is returning. However the fans need to go to the Zeros2Heroes site so that we can help shape the new ReBoot how it is supposed to be!
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I hope they don't try to use some hack's voice for him(though he is a shapeshifter now so they could loophole it that way).
So okay, when they had Dot in the first few seasons, she had the famous "Monoboob". Then when they resurrected Reboot, they finally gave her two. So now with the movies, will they give her three breasts? That's udderly ridiculous. Hope for the breast, expect the wurst.
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It is a fundamental principle of Post-Modernism that all art is replicated. Selling us the same thing over and over again is much more cost-effective than making anything new.
We have already had the remake of Andy Pandy. How long before Muffin the Mule makes a CG comeback? Replicated tasteless remarks may follow.
What if we have exhausted the planet's Narativium supply? Global Boredom will be a frightening reality. Damn you Hollywood. Damn you all to hell! (to be really dadaist I guess I should cut and paste all of that twice - but you get the picture, television is meant to be repetitive.)
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On the contrary, I hope it will be like season 1 and 2. I hated every episode after that, the series weren't the same... Instead of short original stories spanning 1 or 2 episodes at most, it turned into some sort of epic saga into the "web", and way too many characters (boring ones) were added. It felt like a really bad sci-fi movie that never ends. You could argue that they could appeal to an older audience but even today I have the first 3 seasons on dvd and the first 2 are by far the best. Give me mainframe + the original characters + the user and his games =)
Reboot should remain reboot.
That means the following should NOT happen:
Excessive character re-design/"Updating for new technology"
No, the binomes should stay binomes. Sprites should stay sprites.
Keep in the old feel
That means utterly horridly corny computer jokes.
Do NOT try to bring back old characters in a "new" reincarnation that makes them nothing like their old selves.
Either take the old chars and leave em like that, or design new ones. Don't keep the old character but make them look/act like someone new.
Btw, anyone else see hack/slash and keep thinking they should be working for doctor robotnik?
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Excuse me? I've yet to see proof that this isn't how computers are ran.
Now if only Canada wouldn't just be mimicing USA whenever it makes new shows. USA has tons of CSI drama? Let's make our own! USA is making tons of reality shows? Let's have our own! USA has tabloid-formatted "entertainment news" shows? Now Canada does too!
It's funny, in Canada we used to think ourselves pretty smart for what we did in our own right, but now all we seem to do is copy USA. Sure, you can cite some other stale CBC Canada-only shows that aren't really entertaining at all... and I won't care.
Before the CRTC (Canada's FCC) started mandating Canadian content, we used to get a mix of the best of USA, Europe, Japan, and other countries' TV shows, and then throw in whatever content we produced that would be worthy of sitting alongside other countries' best offerings. We used to cooperate a lot with american shows and they'd have canadian guest stars and our shows would have american guest stars (still do, but not as much). Now that Canadian content has come out in full force, turns out that really it's nothing more than repackaged american crap.
I like South Park, but making our own lame forgery and putting that on the air is pretty pathetic. Why couldn't we just air Reboot, or something just as original and creative? Why afraid of competing with the best of other countries' television? If we put our own industries first by default, then they will stagnate and we will never be able to export quality stuff. We instead just end up making poor copies, because they'll be preferred by broadcasters by default. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
As stated by many on Slashdot before, culture is a living breathing thing, and the world is getting closer together. By trying to craft its own 'identity', Canada is really ignoring what its citizens would naturally adopt and instead creating some artifical culture that we're all supposed to know and follow. It doesn't really work that way. Instead we may just end up getting stupider because of it. We'll be too busy with our eyes on our own plate to see what anyone else is trying.
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Sorry man, there's just no topping that.
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One of the thing I hope they do is resolve the final cliffhanger before moving on to a new story. To me, that alone would be enough to support a movie on its own.
Concerning voice actors, I hope that they are able to get most of original the voice actors to return to the series, although it is not possible in some cases (in the recent Neon Genesis Evangelion movie they had to recast the voice actors for some characters because they couldn't find some of the originals). If it can't be done, I hope they voice actors that sound similar to the originals.
I'd rather not have the drastic change like they did when they changed the dubbing company for Dragonball Z. In at least one case (Krillin), the new voice actor was such a change from the original that it was jarring. In the same way, In Ranma 1/2, when they changed the voice actor for the male Ranma, the new one sounds quite different (the same individual now provides the voice for Inuyasha in the series of the same name).
But for me, this is good news. Although I enjoyed the first two seasons, beginning with the second season episode "AndrAIa" is when the series became outstanding. The new movies are going to have high standard to meet.
You should have just titled your post: 11.
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Makes her look like an Orion Slave Girl. And we know what trouble they can be.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
As much as I love ReBoot and want more to be made, I'm definitely worried about what they're going to make. After looking at Zeros 2 Heroes where they talk about ReBoot it seems like they're contradicting themselves. They talk about how reinventing a series can ruin it (which is certainly true) but then go on to say how Rainmaker went out and found five "undiscovered" writers so they could come up with "five completely new takes on the ReBoot world."
Apparently they are going to let the fans decide what the new ReBoot will be like... by allowing them to vote between five existing pitches, which are radically different from the original series. So instead of just revamping the series, the fans will decide which revamp idea they dislike the least. Brilliant!
I can't speak for all the fans, but I don't want a new ReBoot, I want more of the ReBoot that I love so much. Is that too much to ask?
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The "Mouse" character from the show absolutely without doubt was modeled from a real life Valkyrie I know personally, rigth down to the TATS & a penchant for swords
Also, if you missed reboot, or missed a couple of eps, you could just check out this damn torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3468284/Reboot_Seasons _1-4. After a cursory search, it appears to be the best copy availible.