Reboot rebooted
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yes, my friend showed me this and I was thrilled. there also doing something that most other publishers wouldn't...
They are having a contest done by fans to decide where the story goes from it left off. Which I think is risky/brilliant. I'm looking forward to see what people come up with and definately puting votes in on the story I want to see... I also joined the whole 'Zeroes to heroes' site thing hoping maybe my original idea's might stikc somewhere or a contest comes through that's down my alley...
Tis a good thing.
They are having a contest done by fans to decide where the story goes from it left off. Which I think is risky/brilliant. I'm looking forward to see what people come up with and definately puting votes in on the story I want to see... I also joined the whole 'Zeroes to heroes' site thing hoping maybe my original idea's might stikc somewhere or a contest comes through that's down my alley...
Tis a good thing.
Honestly, I'd rather see Reboot revived as a tv series as starting following Daemon Rising. Having another set of movies without any stand alone episodes in between would suck. Especially if they end up being another My Two Bobs.
To me, they might as well have ended the show at season 3 than bring out season 4 like they did, even if Daemon Rising wasn't a bad thing (should have been a longer story admittedly, with a lot more details about some things).
The cool part of seasons 1-3 is that a good portion of episodes were pretty much stand alones, with most running major plot points being slowly unraveled through the series.
Season 4 pretty quickly undid that by being released as two movies, the first too short, and the last with an unresolved cliffhanger. And being it's been 6+ years with that as an ending? Blegh.
The site is nothing exciting so far, but if we do get to see plans for the movies, at least we'll know if there's a good place to bail (even if it's just before anything gets released) due to suck.
To me, they might as well have ended the show at season 3 than bring out season 4 like they did, even if Daemon Rising wasn't a bad thing (should have been a longer story admittedly, with a lot more details about some things).
The cool part of seasons 1-3 is that a good portion of episodes were pretty much stand alones, with most running major plot points being slowly unraveled through the series.
Season 4 pretty quickly undid that by being released as two movies, the first too short, and the last with an unresolved cliffhanger. And being it's been 6+ years with that as an ending? Blegh.
The site is nothing exciting so far, but if we do get to see plans for the movies, at least we'll know if there's a good place to bail (even if it's just before anything gets released) due to suck.
Most of the pitches sound like bad, bad, bad fanfic.
The only ones that COULD work with more polish, I think, are Arrival, 2.0, and Regenerated (as a spinoff series)
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The Last Guardian
17 years later, Megaframe is a city of slaves. Where?s a guardian when you need one?
LOGLINE:
Will Megabyte?s daughter Bit help him destroy Mainframe and the Web? or overcome her programming to side with her ?other? father ? the disgraced guardian, Bob?
SYNOPSIS:
For 17 years Megabyte has ruled, his wife Dot and teenage daughter Bit by his side. Then Dot falls ill. Secretly, she asks Bit to find the only man who can save her: the disgraced guardian, Bob.
Through the city, into the Obsolete Zone, Bit searches for Bob. When she finds him, Bob (programmed to protect the greater good) flatly refuses to help. It?s safer if he?s never found. Bob abandons her. But a game falls, trapping Bit; just when she?s in mortal danger, Bob saves her, overcoming his programming. He?s exposed; no use hiding now.
Bit brings Bob home. His bittersweet reunion with Dot is interrupted by Megabyte, who orchestrated everything. As he?d hoped, Bit led the guardian right to him. Now Megabyte can create a tear and bring destruction to the Web.
Will Bit side with the only father she?s known, or fight alongside the fallen guardian?
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Arrival
NULL<run program 00001: GNOSIS>
acquire: PLANET
enslave: LIFEFORMS
enslave: SYSTEMS
destroy: PLANET(...)
<REPEAT>
LOGLINE:
A space-faring supercomputer named Gnosis has enslaved Mainframe and Earth, and only Bob, the Codemasters, and the Net's greatest heroes can stop it.
SYNOPSIS:
When a strange portal opens in the sky above Mainframe and begins stealing entire systems, Bob, his company of heroes, and two Codemaster rebels travel through the portal and into an alien system on a mission to save the Net.
They discover that an insane supercomputer named Gnosis (NOH-sis) has enslaved millions of helpless systems and is forcing them to research a powerful program called "life." Using his new Codemaster-designed ship - the NullFire - Bob and his team battle the supercomputer, its Avatar slavers, and a swarm of ASPs (Anti-Sprite Programs) in order to free Mainframe, the Net, and themselves.
The heroes soon learn that Gnosis has abducted the User and taken control of the User's realm, a mysterious system called Earth. Now Bob must make an alliance with the User - and discover the User's true nature - or both will suffer permanent deletion.
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The Last User
Extinction is not a game
SYNOPSIS:
In the year 2104, the human race has grown docile with the introduction to an alien technology that has helped grow a utopian world free from disease, poverty, and war. But this long-term alien plan has weakened the human race and a new global war has almost wiped out all of humanity.
The globally connected computer universe is unaware of the state of human extinction. A new virus is introduced by a dying human ?User? in a final attempt to save humanity from total annihilation. Look, our protagonist, is an unstable solution to a horrific problem.
Look is taken on a grim adventure with characters new and old to unveil the computer world?s utopian veil and unmask the dark truth that lies beneath.
SPY, a mysterious rogue guardian from an ancient Mainframe, guides Look on this dangerous quest, forcing Look to use his confused premonitions and abstract viral powers to aid the destroyed worlds of humanity and computer universe.
Can Look help destroy the alien intelligence inside the computer world and give humanity a chance to rebuild itself? Can Look defrag his premonitions and lead the assembled Guardians to destroy the organic alien intelligence and give humanity it?s last chance at survival?
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Reboot 2.0
You can fight the system.
SYNOPSIS:
Tired of the instability that?s plagued Mainframe for so long ?The User? has decided to take drastic measures. He?s installed a new operating system to lock down Mainframe once and for all ? the highly vaunted Serenity O.S., the most secure operating system ever devised. Finally, peace and order have come to Mainframe, no more viruses, no more system glitches, no more program crashes?
No more freedom! The citizens of Mainframe have order, but at what cost?
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Regenerated
On the net you're always one click away from deletion.
LOGLINE:
A team of open-source vigilante sprites detects a doomsday contagion called Pathogen. The New Viral Dawn approaches? Guardian Corporation won't help- the fate of the Universe of Systems is in their code.
SYNOPSIS:
Mainframe is no more. Upon obliterating it, Megabyte vanished, leaving his prophecy of a "New Viral Dawn" unfulfilled. Guardian Corporation has since consolidated and monopolized antivirus security, employing many of the old Guardians, retiring the rest. Its squads of operatives patrol the Net, deleting with impunity.
But a team of open-source vigilante sprites begins to identify contagions routinely evading all the usual defenses. While tracking a suspicious email through a wireless network they identify a malicious omnimorph called Pathogen. Going through official channels they report their findings to Guardian Corp. who categorically denies its existence.
When a deep-throat operative suggests that Guardian Corp and Pathogen are connected, the team realizes that if they don't stop it no one will. But do they have the code it takes?
The only ones that COULD work with more polish, I think, are Arrival, 2.0, and Regenerated (as a spinoff series)
---
The Last Guardian
17 years later, Megaframe is a city of slaves. Where?s a guardian when you need one?
LOGLINE:
Will Megabyte?s daughter Bit help him destroy Mainframe and the Web? or overcome her programming to side with her ?other? father ? the disgraced guardian, Bob?
SYNOPSIS:
For 17 years Megabyte has ruled, his wife Dot and teenage daughter Bit by his side. Then Dot falls ill. Secretly, she asks Bit to find the only man who can save her: the disgraced guardian, Bob.
Through the city, into the Obsolete Zone, Bit searches for Bob. When she finds him, Bob (programmed to protect the greater good) flatly refuses to help. It?s safer if he?s never found. Bob abandons her. But a game falls, trapping Bit; just when she?s in mortal danger, Bob saves her, overcoming his programming. He?s exposed; no use hiding now.
Bit brings Bob home. His bittersweet reunion with Dot is interrupted by Megabyte, who orchestrated everything. As he?d hoped, Bit led the guardian right to him. Now Megabyte can create a tear and bring destruction to the Web.
Will Bit side with the only father she?s known, or fight alongside the fallen guardian?
---
Arrival
NULL<run program 00001: GNOSIS>
acquire: PLANET
enslave: LIFEFORMS
enslave: SYSTEMS
destroy: PLANET(...)
<REPEAT>
LOGLINE:
A space-faring supercomputer named Gnosis has enslaved Mainframe and Earth, and only Bob, the Codemasters, and the Net's greatest heroes can stop it.
SYNOPSIS:
When a strange portal opens in the sky above Mainframe and begins stealing entire systems, Bob, his company of heroes, and two Codemaster rebels travel through the portal and into an alien system on a mission to save the Net.
They discover that an insane supercomputer named Gnosis (NOH-sis) has enslaved millions of helpless systems and is forcing them to research a powerful program called "life." Using his new Codemaster-designed ship - the NullFire - Bob and his team battle the supercomputer, its Avatar slavers, and a swarm of ASPs (Anti-Sprite Programs) in order to free Mainframe, the Net, and themselves.
The heroes soon learn that Gnosis has abducted the User and taken control of the User's realm, a mysterious system called Earth. Now Bob must make an alliance with the User - and discover the User's true nature - or both will suffer permanent deletion.
---
The Last User
Extinction is not a game
SYNOPSIS:
In the year 2104, the human race has grown docile with the introduction to an alien technology that has helped grow a utopian world free from disease, poverty, and war. But this long-term alien plan has weakened the human race and a new global war has almost wiped out all of humanity.
The globally connected computer universe is unaware of the state of human extinction. A new virus is introduced by a dying human ?User? in a final attempt to save humanity from total annihilation. Look, our protagonist, is an unstable solution to a horrific problem.
Look is taken on a grim adventure with characters new and old to unveil the computer world?s utopian veil and unmask the dark truth that lies beneath.
SPY, a mysterious rogue guardian from an ancient Mainframe, guides Look on this dangerous quest, forcing Look to use his confused premonitions and abstract viral powers to aid the destroyed worlds of humanity and computer universe.
Can Look help destroy the alien intelligence inside the computer world and give humanity a chance to rebuild itself? Can Look defrag his premonitions and lead the assembled Guardians to destroy the organic alien intelligence and give humanity it?s last chance at survival?
---
Reboot 2.0
You can fight the system.
SYNOPSIS:
Tired of the instability that?s plagued Mainframe for so long ?The User? has decided to take drastic measures. He?s installed a new operating system to lock down Mainframe once and for all ? the highly vaunted Serenity O.S., the most secure operating system ever devised. Finally, peace and order have come to Mainframe, no more viruses, no more system glitches, no more program crashes?
No more freedom! The citizens of Mainframe have order, but at what cost?
---
Regenerated
On the net you're always one click away from deletion.
LOGLINE:
A team of open-source vigilante sprites detects a doomsday contagion called Pathogen. The New Viral Dawn approaches? Guardian Corporation won't help- the fate of the Universe of Systems is in their code.
SYNOPSIS:
Mainframe is no more. Upon obliterating it, Megabyte vanished, leaving his prophecy of a "New Viral Dawn" unfulfilled. Guardian Corporation has since consolidated and monopolized antivirus security, employing many of the old Guardians, retiring the rest. Its squads of operatives patrol the Net, deleting with impunity.
But a team of open-source vigilante sprites begins to identify contagions routinely evading all the usual defenses. While tracking a suspicious email through a wireless network they identify a malicious omnimorph called Pathogen. Going through official channels they report their findings to Guardian Corp. who categorically denies its existence.
When a deep-throat operative suggests that Guardian Corp and Pathogen are connected, the team realizes that if they don't stop it no one will. But do they have the code it takes?
To be honest I thought The Last Guardian sounded like it was a yaoi fanfic trying to be a script, at least when I first glanced at the first couple of lines. Lucky, it wasn't and was just some drama/angst plot.
I think that's what they were going for. ( :hmm: It'd probably sell well if this weren't directed at ReBoot fans. Way too many teens like that.)
I think that's what they were going for. ( :hmm: It'd probably sell well if this weren't directed at ReBoot fans. Way too many teens like that.)
Peking duck anyone?I did like that they're giving fans options to vote for what storyline they liked best. But why do they have to change the animation at the same time? It was great for it's time and still pretty good even now. All they'd have to do is increase the framerate rate and add more polys to the designs and they'd be set.
Wait, are the five ideas for the webcomic, or for the three movies?
Either way, this is good news. ReBoot was an amazing show, and I'd like to see more of it. And now that I'm more familiar with computers, I may actually understand it a hell of a lot more.
Of the ideas, I like ReBoot 2.0 the most, and a bit of Arrival, as well. Other than that, most of the ideas suck, quite sadly.
This is tempting me to write at least a one shot or something for ReBoot.
Either way, this is good news. ReBoot was an amazing show, and I'd like to see more of it. And now that I'm more familiar with computers, I may actually understand it a hell of a lot more.
Of the ideas, I like ReBoot 2.0 the most, and a bit of Arrival, as well. Other than that, most of the ideas suck, quite sadly.
This is tempting me to write at least a one shot or something for ReBoot.
You know, I just got a reminder that Megabyte died in the real world (the VA, named Tony Jay). Dunno how I'd forgotten.
But give that death, you have to wonder if when the cartoon comes back, will Megabyte get killed off quickly with no lines? Will they mutate the virus far enough so his voice changes? Do they have records of Tony Jay doing voice acting past the show's current end for if the series ever resolved? Will they just replace him without any explanation?
The last would be pretty lame, even if they find someone that could pull of the voice.
For the webcomics, it's fine to have him alive and dandy, but for the cartoon, Tony's death should have some effect on Megabyte's presence, you'd think. And honestly, I'm not excited about the comics.
But give that death, you have to wonder if when the cartoon comes back, will Megabyte get killed off quickly with no lines? Will they mutate the virus far enough so his voice changes? Do they have records of Tony Jay doing voice acting past the show's current end for if the series ever resolved? Will they just replace him without any explanation?
The last would be pretty lame, even if they find someone that could pull of the voice.
For the webcomics, it's fine to have him alive and dandy, but for the cartoon, Tony's death should have some effect on Megabyte's presence, you'd think. And honestly, I'm not excited about the comics.
Sorry to bump the thread again but I just had a nice little chat with Gavin Blair at the Fan Expo this weekend about Reboot's revival. Unfortunately, he really couldn't say much other than what was already mentioned in the thread's opening post. The wait continues...
On a good note, I got "The Art of ReBoot" and the companion sketchbook autographed by Gavin.
On a good note, I got "The Art of ReBoot" and the companion sketchbook autographed by Gavin.