The fun and charm of the original Reboot came from the concept of you seeing life inside the computer. Though be it cheesy, the environments showed thought, creativity, and were just enjoyable. Many episode took a tongue in cheek approach to many of our favorite franchise and word played on technical terms.
In Reboot-GC we have none of that. What we do have, and it is painfully obvious from the very first episode, is another version of Power Rangers along with many other franchises that performed poorly.
In Reboot-GC we see a group of kids find a hidden room in a school that was hidden behind a hologram. (I guess no one painted wall or cleaned the basement.) In this room is advanced technology that just happened to be built by the father of one of the kids. This technology allows the kids to go into "cyberspace". (This term is important as you will constantly be reminded of the term "cyber". Why? Because everything is labeled cyber this and cyber that. ) In "cyberspace" the kids fight with a resurrected Megabyte who is now controlled by The Sorcerer who is a human who dresses in a blackish hoodie, (Because media portrays hackers as people sitting in the dark dressed in hoodies.) who pounds on the keys of his keyboard as if they were some old arcade game. Each episode the "bad guys" try to do things, and the kids race to cyberspace to cyber-beat them up, before leaving and returning to their non-cyber class. That is all the shows in a cyber-nutshell.
I am going to put aside all the similarities between this series and Power Rangers as well as the several other franchises it rips off, and focus solely on the technical aspects of the show.
The actors deliver a performance equal to those found on B movies. I am just going to leave it there.
The series offers two story lines; cyberspace and the life of the kids. Both paths are shallow, and offer little to not value to the viewer. Even on a level of entertainment there isn't that much there. The series is obviously written for the age groups between 7 and 14 years. Adults in the series are dim, easily fooled, and often portrayed as either oblivious to the world around them or jerks. The kids, Mighty Rebooting Cyber Gamers, skip class, run out on basketball games that they are playing in, or other activities to deal with the "cyber threat" of the dark code created by the hoodie dude who constantly tells the viewer what he is doing as he randomly pounds on a keyboard. At the same time, you have the Federal Internet Security team of adults who see everything that is happening in "cyberspace" from their computer, which looks like they were stolen right out of The Matrix, but always fail to do anything, because of reason like...duhhh which way did they go George? Oh! And the "cyberspace" story line, yeah it is the same each episode. Run in, blow things up, run out. Thing is, they don't even blow things up in a cool way. The environments are weak, and offer none of the excitement of the original series.
The graphics, like the acting, is substandard. You have seen better in other franchises.
Well, I guess somewhere they decided they were tie in to the original series because, well, that is cool and people will respect them. But, when they do, they portray the adult game as a fat nasty slob who lives in the basement of his mothers house. Really?
Conclusion: This is not Reboot. This is a situation where someone wanted to make a new franchise that would follow the path of the Power Rangers. So they took a bunch of ideas from other shows, and their own misconceptions about the internet, computers, and the IT profession and made something up. Then to sell it, they found a popular franchise name and smacked it on there.
Before writing this I sat down with family and friends and we watch the series. We watched one and half episodes before family and friends left saying it pained them to watch the series. That left me to watch the other 8 episodes alone. I am a big binge watcher, but I just couldn't do more than one episode in one sitting. Later episodes I actually did other things while the show played in the background. Oh yes, every now and then I would look over, back it up, watch a minute or two, then turn back to what I was doing.
In Reboot-GC we have none of that. What we do have, and it is painfully obvious from the very first episode, is another version of Power Rangers along with many other franchises that performed poorly.
In Reboot-GC we see a group of kids find a hidden room in a school that was hidden behind a hologram. (I guess no one painted wall or cleaned the basement.) In this room is advanced technology that just happened to be built by the father of one of the kids. This technology allows the kids to go into "cyberspace". (This term is important as you will constantly be reminded of the term "cyber". Why? Because everything is labeled cyber this and cyber that. ) In "cyberspace" the kids fight with a resurrected Megabyte who is now controlled by The Sorcerer who is a human who dresses in a blackish hoodie, (Because media portrays hackers as people sitting in the dark dressed in hoodies.) who pounds on the keys of his keyboard as if they were some old arcade game. Each episode the "bad guys" try to do things, and the kids race to cyberspace to cyber-beat them up, before leaving and returning to their non-cyber class. That is all the shows in a cyber-nutshell.
I am going to put aside all the similarities between this series and Power Rangers as well as the several other franchises it rips off, and focus solely on the technical aspects of the show.
The actors deliver a performance equal to those found on B movies. I am just going to leave it there.
The series offers two story lines; cyberspace and the life of the kids. Both paths are shallow, and offer little to not value to the viewer. Even on a level of entertainment there isn't that much there. The series is obviously written for the age groups between 7 and 14 years. Adults in the series are dim, easily fooled, and often portrayed as either oblivious to the world around them or jerks. The kids, Mighty Rebooting Cyber Gamers, skip class, run out on basketball games that they are playing in, or other activities to deal with the "cyber threat" of the dark code created by the hoodie dude who constantly tells the viewer what he is doing as he randomly pounds on a keyboard. At the same time, you have the Federal Internet Security team of adults who see everything that is happening in "cyberspace" from their computer, which looks like they were stolen right out of The Matrix, but always fail to do anything, because of reason like...duhhh which way did they go George? Oh! And the "cyberspace" story line, yeah it is the same each episode. Run in, blow things up, run out. Thing is, they don't even blow things up in a cool way. The environments are weak, and offer none of the excitement of the original series.
The graphics, like the acting, is substandard. You have seen better in other franchises.
Well, I guess somewhere they decided they were tie in to the original series because, well, that is cool and people will respect them. But, when they do, they portray the adult game as a fat nasty slob who lives in the basement of his mothers house. Really?
Conclusion: This is not Reboot. This is a situation where someone wanted to make a new franchise that would follow the path of the Power Rangers. So they took a bunch of ideas from other shows, and their own misconceptions about the internet, computers, and the IT profession and made something up. Then to sell it, they found a popular franchise name and smacked it on there.
Before writing this I sat down with family and friends and we watch the series. We watched one and half episodes before family and friends left saying it pained them to watch the series. That left me to watch the other 8 episodes alone. I am a big binge watcher, but I just couldn't do more than one episode in one sitting. Later episodes I actually did other things while the show played in the background. Oh yes, every now and then I would look over, back it up, watch a minute or two, then turn back to what I was doing.