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Reboot To Get A Reboot
Posted by
Zonk
on Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:20 PM
from the bits-and-bytes dept.
from the bits-and-bytes dept.
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."
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first full length (Score:1, Interesting)
Wow. (Score:3, Interesting)
Good News or Bad News? (Score:4, Funny)
do you really want REBOOT FANFICTION?
Go Canada! (Score:5, Interesting)
It was far more entertaining by the third season when Enzo grew up and got really pissed off... it was a nice dark twist.
Cast: (Score:1)
Im Psyched by this (Score:4, Interesting)
Alphanumeric! (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColRwxkC1FY [youtube.com]
I crack up every time I watch it.
I hope they manage to tie up the few loose threads left in S4.
Yes! (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.lost-telemetry.com/)
Subliminal Messaging (Score:2, Funny)
(http://www.lazycode.info/)
Tron (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Wednesday August 29, @12:58AM)
it has potential (Score:1, Interesting)
Fun Yahoo Fact (Score:1)
I'm so Happy... (Score:1)
(http://musick.110mb.com/blog)
To Mend and Defend (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://hangarbay.niteshdw.com/)
Obligatory Title Misinterpretation (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.warriorvisions.com/)
Sweeet... (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 06 2002, @05:15PM)
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.
That last episode of Season Three (Score:2)
(http://www.gis.net/~cht)
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.
Yes! (Score:1)
(http://www.thelastfreecity.com/)
But no Tony Jay as Megabyte:( (Score:3, Informative)
(http://real-ism.com/)
Dot Matrix? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Invasion of the Replicators (Score:2)
(http://www.mclean-campbell.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday July 31, @07:57AM)
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.)
That Wikipedia article (Score:2)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ta_bu_shi_da_yu)
As long as we get one thing straight... (Score:1)
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?
Awesome!! (Score:1)
"supposedly run"? (Score:1)
Continuing ReBoot and Voice Actors (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
I've got a bad feeling about this (Score:1)
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 [zeros2heroes.com] 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?
Ah... Ummm... (Score:1)
strange yet very true (Score:1)
Re:Is there anything thats not being remade (Score:1)
Maybe. If the atheists are wrong.
Re:Same characters? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Conclusion to Megabyte? (Score:2, Interesting)
I come from the net (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.unsanity.org/)
Re:Conclusion to Megabyte? (Score:4, Informative)
Oh well, here's hoping that the new movies kick as much ass as season 3 did, although the lack of all the original writers makes me worried...
Re:Is there anything thats not being remade (Score:2)
In triplicate, no less!
Re:Same characters? (Score:2, Funny)
Confucius say: Be careful what you wish for on the internet.
Nasrudin say: Be more precise in what you wish for on the internet.
Re:Is there anything thats not being remade (Score:1)
One can only hope. An update without an awful plotline involving infatuation with a ridiculous pop-star would be quite welcome.
No, worse. (Score:2)
(http://ii-0-ii.com/parodycheck)
Re:Is there anything thats not being remade (Score:1)
(http://www.flickr.com/people/anthonybaby/ | Last Journal: Saturday July 28, @09:31PM)
Re:the show sucked (Score:2)
Others are saying that it improved in a later series, but I don't regret not sticking with it. TV shows usually get worse over time.