Eagle-eyed Topless Roboteer Rob N. found the above video which seems to indicate a ReBoot... reboot. Fact: Rainmaker Studios is apparently the new company that formed from MainFrame Entertainment, which originally made ReBoot. Item that Rob N asserts as fact: None of the original ReBoot makers are currently at Rainmaker, or working on the rebooted ReBoot (this is already getting annoying). Rob's opinion masquerading as fact: ReBoot was 30 minutes of crappy CG, Canadian misery before new episodes of Dragonball Z aired back in Toonami's glory days. My friends and I wept and shrieked whenever ReBoot was on, until we were rescued by the clean early '90s animation of DBZ and its taut storytelling. However, Ms Robot loves herself some ReBoot, so I felt compelled to post this news anyways so I don't have to sleep on the couch tonight.
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toxic said:
Reboot was fairly cool, I thought. It was the last Saturday morning cartoon to hold my attention in any way. And for the mid 90s, when 28k modems were high tech, that CG was pretty f'ing good.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:13:17 PM
CChaos said:
It wasn't a bad show...
Could've been better, could've been worse. The CG at the time was pretty nice.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:28:44 PM
JimmyPL said:
It was a breath of fresh air for animation.
Now you look back and cringe, but it was cutting fucking edge at the time.
Frankly I found more to complain with the lack of innovation in War Planets and even to some extent Beast Wars.
The writing was better than average for a Saturday morning cartoon and 15 years ago this was the first attempt at a full fledged 30 minute show.
The time spent rendering it was monumental which caused the lack of quantity, but they made up with quality.
Sorry it was Canadian, perhaps if all the characters had ridiculous goddamn hair and fought over balls to summon dragons then it would have been more worthy of your time.
Comparing an animation style in it's infancy with something that had been around for 70 years+ seems ignorant.
"Toy Story came out a year later and was loads better..."
No shit? Really? Something with umpteen times the budget and no real time constraints looked better? Wouldn't have guessed...
Taut storytelling... gimme a break... I love magical thinking as much as the next guy, but I'll be damned to watch a bunch of anime stereotypes fighting each other for balls from the beaches of Sneeches.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:30:43 PM
Deathninja McSex said:
Ow damn nostalga almost made me forget how terrible that show was, back then megabyte was a badass but now the crappy cgi just reminds me of Lawnmower man.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:31:03 PM
Loafy said:
Reboot started pretty good then got great by the 3rd season. Sadly what did come out on dvd is out of print. Maybe this will get it all to be released.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:31:38 PM
ZADL said:
I always kinda liked Reboot, mostly for the small computer related in-jokes that weren't too obvious. Like the time the villain woman (whose name I totally don't remember) got ahold of a graphics program and was recreating the world in her image. I remember chuckling over the fact that she was using a Photoshop palate, during a time when Photoshop was not on everyone's computers and most people wouldn't recognize it.
There was also a bit where the bad guy had a guitar that he turned up to 11, and I doubt most kids at the time had watched Spinal Tap.
It was little touches like that I enjoyed, but not enough to go buy the series or anything.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:31:55 PM
Captain Draino said:
Reboot was always one of those TV shows I loved to hate. I could just never get into this show.
Now commence the roasting of my hide.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:40:39 PM
Mr. Sanders said:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME ? Reboot was AWESOME. So awesome in fact that Cartoon Network helped finance a 3 or 4 part mini series after the show was canceled from ABC.
I'll agree that the first season was kinda lame at first but it starting picking up in the middle..and after Enzo grew up, and Bob 1.0 died, or so we thought it got pretty awesome.
Obviously you didn't keep watching the show because the second season was nothing like the first. It had everything us nerds love, clones, a BA grown up version of Enzo(now going by Matrix), a bleak dark future, a hot love interest (not Dot), lots of action and plenty of cliffhangers and a great villain that actually won sometimes. Heck it even did a fan service episode where their was a reformatting and the older characters met their younger selves...
I'm sorry, you can't call that show bad if you haven't seen all of it.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:41:35 PM
RunnerX13 said:
How can you compare Reboot to Dragon Ball Z? Taut storytelling? You've lost what little creditability you have!
Seriously, Reboot was a great show.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:41:36 PM
Mr. Sanders said:
"How can you compare Reboot to Dragon Ball Z? Taut storytelling? You've lost what little creditability you have!
Seriously, Reboot was a great show."
Agreed ! and the woman mentioned in the post above yours in the future has a pretty sad future. Go read Wikipedia guys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
The third season was pretty much the best thing on television.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:45:40 PM
rob k said:
Reboot was good stuff, as were other shows from Mainframe... BeastWars and even War Machines. The writing and voice work were always a cut above.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:46:28 PM
Black Snow said:
Thank you Mr. Bricken. Reboot was utter garbage. I have much love for Mainframe because of Beast Wars but Reboot sucked. It's always been overrated. Rock on.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:48:58 PM
Captain Draino said:
I will confess that I couldn't stomach anything contained in the first season which made me never tune into the show ever again.
But I must say, anything that was CG animated made for TV I just hated. This included Transformers Beast Wars. I don't know why exactly, but I just really hated those shows. I would have been happier to just watch reruns of Thundercats, GI Joe or Transformers.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:51:04 PM
GaryML said:
I find it hard to believe that anybody who saw the episode featuring a cutting heads guitar duel between Bob and Megabyte would say ReBoot sucked.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:52:05 PM
Unoriginal Neil said:
"DBZ... taut storytelling." For reals? It was aired daily, yet I could miss weeks and they'd still be in the same fight, potentially still performing the same power up.
Mind you, I wasn't a fan of ReBoot either.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:53:18 PM
Mr. Sanders said:
I stand behind the opinion that anyone that didn't like this show, didn't watch all of it. If all you saw was season one then yeah I can dig it but if you saw anything after that and don't like this show, you have a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
It sucks though that this movie doesn't pick up where the series left off. They ended it on an insane note.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:53:27 PM
Tonberry2k said:
I fucking love ReBoot. I hope they keep the same characters, though a Megabyte without Tony Jay is hardly a Megabyte at all.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 04:57:14 PM
Zach said:
I too enjoyed the Reboot. It was good times. Now I'm sure I'd hate it now, but when I was a kid, that shit rocked.
oh and I have to respect you posting something for your wife. That's cool.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:00:06 PM
Arsenal said:
Reboot was awesome. I was a big fan of DBZ also, but there is no way you can talk about the " taut storytelling" of DBZ. It was a stretched out mess of a show, if it was taut storytelling the should would be about 40% shorter, it had way too many powering up episodes not to mention the ones that half the show was a recap.
But anime nerds will be anime nerds, don't see why the Canadian bashing was needed
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:00:37 PM
Zhalfim said:
does this mean we finally get a proper ending to the show? the series finale was a cliff-hanger!
(yes I thoroughly enjoyed the show...far more than Beast Wars)
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:00:41 PM
nflsmc said:
When I first saw the video said Reboot movie trailer, I thought it was actually going to be a Reboot Movie, like Scary Movie, and such. I am very relieved to find out that I was mistaken...
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:04:21 PM
Strangeman said:
Speaking as a Canadian, Reboot wasn't great, but it was barely beareable. It always had the opportunity to be completely awesome. I always thought instead of ripping-off unrecognizeable games they tried to actually insert the characters in real games like a bizarre computer version of Quantum Leap meets Tron then it might get interesting.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:07:06 PM
Sinislaw said:
the season where they get trapped on the net is pretty decent. Better than beast machines any day, but not beast wars.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:07:56 PM
Monkey boy said:
Taut storytelling? TAUT? Please please oh please print a retraction statin that you were sarcastic or high on goofballs, or I seriously will have doubts about your opinion on anything. How a show where people spend the entire half hour breathing heavily and raising their power levels and gaping incredulously qualifies as taut storytelling is unfathomable to me.
Reboot was actually pretty quality. It had developed characters and ongoing story arcs which was pretty unknown in the days when most American cartoons never thought beyond a self contained half hour story arc. And I think you may be thinking it's newer than it actually is. The reboot I remember aired on saturda mornings on network tv wayyyy before I ever knew toonami existed.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:10:04 PM
Alex Sahounov said:
The author of this post either didn't watch Reboot past the first few episodes, or doesn't know good storytelling at all. When Reboot was good, it was ON FIRE. The three-part Nullzilla/Gigabyte finale was awesome, and the story consistently took daring chances. Shooting Bob off into the Web, killing the child versions of Enzo and Andrea, reducing Fong to a head in a jar and killing off almost every single person in Mainframe? It was a hell of a lot better than the 40-episode fight scenes that comprised most of Dragon Ball Z.
It was one of the pioneers of cutting-edge computer animation, and for what is basically a kids' show, it had incredible plot lines. Nowhere else would you find a show that devoted an entire season to the two child protagonists traveling through different games and worlds to find their friend, or a multi-episode arc focusing on the destruction of Mainframe.
Come on.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:27:43 PM
Gleeman said:
"I always kinda liked Reboot, mostly for the small computer related in-jokes that weren't too obvious."
The only episode I can recall these days was one where they were having some kind of stand up comedy thing, one of the random robot characters got up and told his joke in binary: "1010010010101" etc. and of course all the ReBoot characters laughed, but the kids I was watching it with weren't computer nerds like me and didn't get it.
ReBoot was pretty decent for it's day, also remember it was the first fully CG TV show.
IRT the 'Taunt' storytelling of DBZ, I think Rob was being sarcastic. Otherwise he's fucking crazy... :P
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:29:46 PM
Geoff said:
For all the bashing the first season gets, it did have the genius that was the RPG / D&D parody episode. The mistake they made that first season was trying a bit too hard to be serious, but when they went for comedy, they still hit pretty well.
Season 2 got the comedy / drama balance worked out right, which they carried forward into Beast Wars. And much like Beast Wars, those last couple of seasons were pretty blatantly shows which were stealthily written for teenagers and up while attempting to convince network execs that they were written for kids.
(As opposed to DBZ, which was written by three-year olds for two-year olds)
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:32:33 PM
Friginator said:
I, for one, loved Reboot to death. Back in the good old days when Toonami was just hours of "Reboot", "Dragonball Z" and the "Real Adventures of Johnny Quest".
God, I sound like an old man, but all three of those shows kicked some serious ass way back when. I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time....
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:39:33 PM
Cavity_Dog said:
My favorite Reboot moment was when Bob and Enzo were sitting around in a military game while the user's tank was stuck between two rocks because of the crappy controls. And they were just watching him fail.
We've all played that game.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:40:14 PM
Poe Ghostal said:
Dude, say what you want about Reboot, but it was the only kids' cartoon I know of to featuring motherfucking ASH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdLE761T1g&feature=PlayList&p=527F90700DFF1328&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:44:09 PM
James Strocel said:
Wow, first you rag on Macross Frontier and now Reboot? Someone didn't get enough gin in their cornflakes! :)
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:44:29 PM
Bad Brendan said:
I wasn't interested in Reboot for Season 1 or 2 but when season 3 aired it grabbed me by the throat, Especially when Enzo came back as Matrix, with the gun and Golden Eye. The Show minus the Annoying kid factor was amazing
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:44:34 PM
Geoff said:
"My favorite Reboot moment was when Bob and Enzo were sitting around in a military game while the user's tank was stuck between two rocks because of the crappy controls. And they were just watching him fail."
I see you that and raise you the entirety of the Pokemon parody episode. You could tell that the guys at Mainframe were pissed that crap like that show was kicking their ass in the ratings, and therefore were extra-brutal in their parody.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:45:08 PM
RobP said:
@nflsmc: If Hollywood actually produces a "Reboot Movie" wherein they lampoon rebooted movies/franchises that are otherwise dead... Well, we'll know WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS. You, you will be WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THAT.
I always liked Reboot, the TV show, in theory. Which is basically how I feel about communism, Adobe Premiere, and possibly Dollhouse...
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:51:13 PM
Nameless Grunt said:
My only question is: If they bring back Megabyte, who will play him? Tony Jay died in 2006, and I don't think that there is anyone who can emulate his cryptic and awesome voice, period.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:57:18 PM
Jilliterate said:
Oh, please don't tell me you just besmirched Reboot. Seriously, it was an amazingly cute, clever show, and I find myself torn between my love for this website, and my greater love for Reboot. Don't make me choose, Rob.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 05:58:30 PM
Megiddo said:
ReBoot was awesomme.
It had Fax Modem and Data Scully (voiced by Gillian Anderson).
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:00:17 PM
Nameless Grunt said:
@Geoff: With all due respect, Tony Jay left a very noticeable impression on my young mind. Until I hear Michael Ironside or someone else reading lines for Megabyte, replacing Tony Jay will be a difficult task.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:13:48 PM
Raine said:
I loved reboot when I was a kid. I hope the remake doesn't suck
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:13:55 PM
Le Franckster said:
All I have to say is I am beyond excited for this. Always have loved Reboot and Beast-Wars, and always will.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:13:58 PM
Mad Mutt said:
Am I the only Elder Geek who caught the brandname tag reference to Merrimac Monitors in the guitar duel linked above? Of course I did grow up only about 5 miles from the site of that epic Civil War clash of the original ironclads. Even now, I only live about 3 miles farther west of there. Having served on an aircraft carrier during the 'Nam era, I am a hardcore hardware geek. Bring on the battlestars!
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:17:17 PM
Not_giving_real_info said:
I completely disagree with Reboot not being cool. It was one of the only full 3D animated shows of the time, had a sweet villain who had a deep voice and neat gadget (namely Glitch). I have a soft spot for this on a number of levels but it was a good show that developed into more mature stories later on. If not for Reboot we would be years away from 3D animated women porn. Dot and Andrea were perfect specimens for people to imagine naked. Think about that next time you bash Reboot.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:38:40 PM
Adam E. said:
I also must disagree about Reboot not being cool; the first season was pretty dull, but it gets awesome later on. And much as I enjoy DBZ, I would never describe the writing of its anime adaption as "taut." I would say it's not good, at best.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 06:56:52 PM
Taladrea said:
I remember watching ReBoot, and Beast Wars. I didn't know that both were produced by the same company. Thus, I have learned something new today to fuel my nerdness.
But, bashing ReBoot is a bit much. I agree that the first season was lame, but it did round itself up to be pretty kick arse by the end of the series (which in truth should not have ended on such a cliff hanger).
If by the looks of the trailer itself, its going to still hold on to the same look as the show; But, with better fueled CG backing it. I hope.
@ZADL: I remember that episode with Photoshop shown. It looked more like Paintshop to me though. x.x'
@Geoff: I agree that Michael Ironside could voice Megabyte. But, on the same token he'd have to really sit down and watch the show in order to capture the personality correctly.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 07:04:26 PM
Zeig said:
oh god.. oh god, i started this.... dear god, why did i do it...
Posted 10/20/2009 at 07:19:05 PM
Harry said:
http://www.amazon.com/Reboot-Season-Vol-Viral-Wars/dp/B000056NX0/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
You are judging early 1990's by the standards of today
You might as well compare Cave paintings to Andy Warhol
Check the Amazon Product review - CLUELESS Reviwer - slammed by me and others!
IT WAS GROUNDBREAKING AND AND DARING CG - when others didn't have a clue.
Lets all make fun of the 1st lightbulb which only lasted seconds.
5.0 out of 5 stars Huh?, May 17, 2008
By Harry Widoff "Bookateria" (Forest Hills, New York)
I'm going to add to this later.
But boy did the Amazon Reviewer get a wrong number.
in the contect of teh time of production Mainframe Entertainment was pushing the envelope.
"long strethces of filler" He's reviewing the Twinkie he's getting a sugar rush from - and is paying more attentionto the twinkie.
Criticizing the voice of one of the characters "sounds like George Sanders as Shere Kahn in Disney's The Jungle Book" - I'm sorry if this film frightened you as a child - complain to Disney.
"while Bob struggles to save the cybercity, only to vanish inexplicably" Been a while since I watched it - but since it was pivotal - Bob was ejected by Megabyte through the Web Creature Portal out of Mainframe. Turn off your earPod while watching a DVD you intend to review.
"Reboot inadvertently showcases the limits of the technology" - in retrospect through our 2008 eyes [when I am writing this]. In 2 years I will feel I was too kind bury our reviewer under more of my trash. I will then use the latest slang-tech to crush his misconceived perceptions futher.
"The motion-capture technique gives the characters an unsettling weightless look, which robs their fights and gymnastics flips of any power." Yeah I have to agree with that. Give me Drew Barrymore from the Charlies Angel movie, or Britney without underwear. [I wonder if I'll regret typing this in 2010]
"motion capture is still inferior to limited drawn animation"
AHA! the problem revealed - well I think a traditional photo with "grains" of 1/10,000 of a milligram is finer than a pixel - and guess what it is - why bother with HD - well a photo has more detail than most of us can preceive since our eyes are being destroyed by Laptop and LCD screens. He's a purist - it is what it is. I bet he likes B&W animation better than Color and Film better than Video.
"I yam what I yam" Popeye [B&W Animated Film Sailor]
"grotesque imagery, and ethnic stereotypes are inappropriate for children under 10." This is the wrong PC for a PC animated Sci-Fi Cartoon series.
Go back to writing instruction manuals for Wooden Ice Cream Spoons.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 07:42:27 PM
Genius Jones said:
I watched Reboot off and on over the years it was on. And I enjoyed it okay. But I do have to say that for them do get that quality level of CG on a 30 minute TV series at that time is nothing short of impressive.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 08:16:10 PM
Invader Toph said:
I am so excited! ReBoot pwns and I've been waiting for it to come back for years now. And you have to admit, the CGI was okay if you realize that it was a 30 minute show that aired weekly on TV in the early 90's. On ABC. (Before it was picked up by CN)
Posted 10/20/2009 at 08:47:18 PM
Peter said:
Good grief - please tell me the quip about DBZ'z storytelling was facetious. There is no way any rational person could say that with a straight face, and I can't see through to the other side of my monitor to double-check.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 09:19:14 PM
Mattr0polis said:
ReBoot was fucking awesome! How can you rip on that show? Also, DBZ was terrible. Like, seriously.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 09:28:36 PM
Shawn said:
Reboot was an awesome show and I've been waiting over two years for some news on the reboot. See, a couple years ago at WonderCon, I saw a booth selling stacks of The Art of Reboot book for a mere $5 each. (The book is great; it's filled with concept art and insight on some of the designs in the show.) I excitedly grabbed one and the dude at the booth started talking to me about how Reboot will be making a comeback with three movies with the first one showing in theaters in 2009 and that it would be accompanied by new DVD releases of the original series. This is the first I've heard of the Reboot reboot since that WonderCon. The year is almost over and I don't think any movie will be popping up in theaters anytime soon, but it's good to see that the booth dude wasn't lying and the project is still moving forward.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 09:59:35 PM
nico said:
Reboot was loads better than DBZ !
It didn't take 60 episodes to go through one battle..'nuf said.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 10:41:54 PM
thfunpolice said:
I'm sorry, did you say "taut storytelling"? I'm pretty sure you meant "glacial".
Reboot was about as wonderfully dystopian-for-kidz as my child's heart could've desired. Hexadecimal used to haunt my little dreams. Really, I'm not trying to be salty. I'm just sorry for you that you couldn't enjoy it.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 10:42:31 PM
Black Snow said:
The DBZ bashing is ridiculous. Yes, it's a very slow-paced show. But it's hardly a bad show. The stories were very solid and if you stuck around for the long haul you were rewarded with some great growth over the years. It could be better. Heck, it is better as Dragonball Kai. But running it through the mud is silly.
See, when people exaggerate way too much by saying that one battle would take 40-60 episodes or that they could miss the show for weeks on end (when it aired five days a week) and come back without missing anything they're flat out lying. When you go so over the top like that it's hard to take your legitimate complaints seriously.
The worst of all is anime snobs who love to look down on DBZ. They always seem to forget that DBZ was one of the main contributing factors to anime becoming more widely accepted in America. Love it or hate it DBZ is historically important and at the very least deserves your respect for that.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 11:04:52 PM
Adam said:
The musical at the end of season three was sublime. I'd love to see Goku come up with a rhyme for alphanumeric.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 11:34:41 PM
Garnet said:
See, when people exaggerate way too much by saying that one battle would take 40-60 episodes or that they could miss the show for weeks on end (when it aired five days a week) and come back without missing anything they're flat out lying. When you go so over the top like that it's hard to take your legitimate complaints seriously.
Hyperbolic, you say? Episode 82 is entitled "Attack, Goku!! An Enraged Freeza's Second Transformation." Episode 104 is "Frieza Defeated!!" That means that, not including the two third season episodes after that or any of the Frieza-fighting that preceded that (Frieza vs. Vegeta/Krillin/Gohan/Piccolo) that single fight, much of which takes place during the five minute countdown to Namek's destruction, would still have taken over four weeks to wrap up. Even at an episode a day every weekday, that's nearly a month.
The first season's storylines, with Raditz and then Snake Way and Vegeta and Nappa, are good. Snake Way drags a bit, especially when he falls off and has to start over again, but it still takes him less than thirteen episodes, intercut with Gohan and Piccolo and the other Z warriors preparing. But the Namek saga is the beginning of the descent into utter slow-moving madness, and the fight with Frieza in particular is where nearly every stereotype about DBZ being twenty-two minutes of grunting and powering up comes from.
Posted 10/20/2009 at 11:44:09 PM
LBD "Nytetrayn" said:
I shall be one who stands among you and holds the banner high for ReBoot, for while it was slow to start, working around the Standards and Practices of ABC's Saturday morning lineup, it improved by the end of season 2 and led into a rather awesome season 3, as well as the two movies.
And then... nothing.
Things are different now, very different... but I remain hopeful for the future.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 12:01:10 AM
Nome said:
This whole battle of opinion on media makes me wanna get all psychological. Why people prefer something over another. Why some people like stories and plots they can relate to while others like to find avatars and fantasies they wish to live in vicariously. Why some people like reboot and some people like dragon ball.
Memory, parental/guardian influences and tastes, trauma, elevated moods; many many many contributing factors can come into play in those moments when we are first exposed to something new.
I myself never got into dragon ball, I watched it when it came on YTV sometimes, but I just never found a way into the plot as to be involved in what the hell was going on in it.
But Re:Boot was one of my favorite shows growing up and I still see it today as being a very clever show.
I agree on the whole, it didn't really get good until the whole second season "into the net" story lines started.
But it was a good show for growing up with because the theme of the show got more mature as it went on. So much good geek nostalgia about old pc games in that show as well.
I can see how many people can like DBz, it's tough, it's manly, it has big veins popping in foreheads, and shouting... and and and... some really deep philosophical stuff wrapped in confusing packaging.
I think I used to enjoy it because it was just so F'n weird.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 12:09:19 AM
Sledge said:
Really? You didn't like ReBoot because you were too busy getting excited over Dragonball fucking Z? WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?!!?! Get the fuck out. Turn in your nerd cards, your man cards and your fucking taste cards. You are fucking done, you hear me? This kind of bullshit is what causes fucking wars. "Oh, I've got taste, I don't like Michael Bay films." Fuck you, monkey boy. Dragonball fucking Z. There is no fucking excuse for that. Get the fuck off the internet. Go and think about what you've done. If it weren't for your wife having better taste, I'd wish every STD there is on you. As it is, I hope she castrates you with a rusty carving knife in your sleep.
Dragonball fucking Z. Sweet titty-fucking Christ, the hell is the matter with you?
Posted 10/21/2009 at 01:17:11 AM
Psycow said:
No way dude, Reboot was awesome!!! The Evil Dead reference ruled, and the Mortal Kombat reference, where Enzo got stuck in the game and went into the net was awesome. The final season was great. Dragonball Z cannot even compare, same crap every season. Fight some bad guy, get ass kicked, train or look for som magical doohicky to get more powerfull, kick villians ass, become best buddies, repeat. Yawn.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 02:25:43 AM
Josh said:
Are you kidding?! Reboot was one of the greatest cartoons of the 90s! Not only was the animation state of the art for it's time... near the end the storyline got a whole lot more epic and dramatic. Megabyte teaming with Bob to defend mainframe against attacks from the net. Megabyte betraying Bob and jettisoning him into the net as the firewall closed arounf Mainframe. Enzo getting his ass kicked in Mortal Kombat as the new guardian and the horror on Dot's faced when she thought he had been nullified. And the final epic battle in post-apocalyptic Mainframe.
Reboot was the kiddy Mad Max of the 90s. DBZ was good as a manga but it was the worst-paced anime ever produced. 15 seconds of awesome fight scenes does not excuse 21 minutes of people standing around twitching and occasionally talking.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 03:30:01 AM
Des said:
I think JimmyPL said all I needed to say. DBZ is basically one "secret move I kept form you , but now I'm about to unlease it because it you made me angry, hahaha" after the other.I wonder if you guys would know taut storytelling if it whacked you with a spirit bomb.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 05:39:28 AM
Runnerx13 said:
Rebooting Reboot is going to be hard work. It's one thing when CN did a new He-Man show, because the original was just a 22 minute toy commercial. So the new show worked. What doesn't work is when the original was fantastic, like Batman the Animated Series, and gets followed up by a pale imitation, like The Batman. The original Reboot was too damn good for any new show to stand a chance.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 08:14:00 AM
JimmyPL said:
Oh yeah. Almost forgot. From the Dragonball Z wiki. "Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon."
Yes that is way better than clever parodies and referential humor in a Saturday morning cartoon before Futurama and Family Guy and South Park bring such an idea to the masses. (Beyond the scope of the shark jumping Simpsons.)
Posted 10/21/2009 at 08:32:32 AM
Beppo said:
I liked the musical ending at the end of Season 3 too, set to the tune of that Modern Major General song from Pirates of Penzance. I always thought Battlestar Galactica should have done the same thing.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 09:25:45 AM
'Stater Nuts said:
The only thing that sucks about ReBoot is that there are no DVDs available.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:04:59 AM
Travis said:
I'm sorry, but any show that uses the Evil Dead as a reference for it's Halloween episode rules in my book.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:16:53 AM
Bunche said:
What's with all the Reboot hate? There was a lot to love on that show and it admittedly got a bit predictable when Enzo and Andrea grew up, spending a whole season on that quest to find Bob and return to Mainframe, but the stories prior to that were often quite clever. I found the underwater story to be particularly striking, especially when viewed after downing a good helping of, er, "enchanted" fungus. If you know what i mean.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:17:22 AM
Beast said:
I CHALLENGE YOU ROB BRICKEN! Sit down and watch season 2 and 3 of Reboot and tell me it doesn't make your nerdy bits tingle!
Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:29:57 AM
J.H. said:
ReBOOT remains the BEST thing Mainfrme evermade and the fact that we've spent the last part of almost a decade waiting for it to finish has irked me no end...
Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:32:04 AM
miloelgato said:
IMHO mhile Reboot wasn't entirely amazing, it beated the DBZ formula of seeing Goku being subjected to one hell of a beating every time he needed to be stronger to defeat the next rival...
Posted 10/21/2009 at 01:16:01 PM
Gregg said:
While it won't be the same without late voice actors Tony Jay & Long John Baldry a new version of Reboot would be cool as it could show technological advancements that have changed since the show first began.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 01:50:12 PM
Steve said:
I loved this show as a kid, and I really hope they don't mess it up like how Hollywood apparently does with superhero movies (I never read the comics, so I actually like some of the movies). I looked at the Rainmaker site and if they did indeed make all the stuff on there, this movie has a lot of potential.
I don't like the preview; it doesn't look like they are going to stay true to anything aesthetic about the show, judging by that short preview clip. However, it might be from another computer, as they have done before in the show.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 07:53:16 PM
Hypersapien said:
Ohhh yeah..
I can not wait for this. Reboot was an awesome show. Granted, I haven't seen an episode in over a decade.
I loved how they kept slipping stuff past the clueless censors.
Posted 10/21/2009 at 08:28:25 PM
Sena said:
Adam said:
The musical at the end of season three was sublime. I'd love to see Goku come up with a rhyme for alphanumeric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColRwxkC1FY
I have never been able to watch this without laughing my ass right off! The best part of Reboot, EVER, in my opinion. Thank you very much for providing that link!
Posted 10/21/2009 at 09:36:56 PM






