ReBoot: The Guardian Code (TV Series) Mainframe Mayhem (2018) User Reviews

Giant middle finger to fans

[colossal_power · 1/10 · 3 April 2018]

The majority of this show is simply uninspired and bland. This episode is the exception. It was specifically designed to insult fans of the real ReBoot series. The characters from the old series are horrifically animated, like corpses of the real sprites on strings. Think "Weekend at Bernie's" but far less funny.

Dot in particular is badly done. She has been robbed of all the original's personality and reduced to a damsel in distress to be saved. She also looks like a wax sculpture of herself.

Among all that, the people at Rainmaker found time to put in The User: an overtly offensive caricature of classic ReBoot fans. Here portrayed as a basement-dwelling loser surrounded by ReBoot merchandise. They were nice enough to break continuity and the fourth wall to spit on the same people who have been calling for the folks on this show to be employed.

Can we rate a show less than one star?

Offensive and Mean Spirited

[navachristian-93588 · 1/10 · 11 April 2018]

I was willing to give this series a chance.

I have a son now and thought having a new show about an IP I loved growing up would be great. And then, the people from Mainframe Studios, Reboot Productions and Wow Unlimited Media Inc. disrespected me and all the fans of the original show.

It's not all bad, mind you. Some performances are refreshing. The actress who plays V.E.R.A. does a great job in my opinion.

Having said that, it baffled me why the showrunners would go to such lengths to belittle me and others like me.

I thought in 2018 we were past harmful stereotypes, but apparently a balding, overweight man living in his parent's basement is how they see the fans of the original show.

Sloppy CGI, bland characters, uneven pacing, all that we can overlook as an audience. Having you bully us... not a chance.

I'd never wish for a show to be cancelled. I'm aware that the livelihood of many depend on it. I just wish there weren't such mean spirited people at the helm of this production.

May this message find you and yours well.

All the Single Neck-Beards!

[web-57903 · 1/10 · 17 June 2018]

Rainmaker doesn't know why I as a ReBoot fan bothered to try enjoying their show, but they're going to find out: ReBoot!

I watched this final episode because I thought they'd actually try to make a half-decent passing-the-torch episode... This was so...classless, tactless, insulting and cruel, an unnecessary ball of confusion at best. The more I think of it, the more the decision to do things the way they were done here seems like such a failure.

Fans of Guardian Code won't appreciate it because these poorly rendered and textured shells of themselves look awkward, the scenery yet again looks cold and unpopulated, and the mean-spirited attempt will only make the episode itself look imbalanced. The call-back portion makes little to no sense in the context of the main show and appears aimed at no one but fans of the original, who haven't exactly been treated as though they've been expected to try any of TGC at all.. To quote Guardian Bob from the original series, "Why? Why do this!?" I shudder to remember the wicked delivery of the reply.

"It amused me."

How Not To Treat Your Fans

[jeremycrimsonfox · 1/10 · 11 October 2020]

ReBoot: The Guardian's Code is basically nothing more than a horrid superhero show mish-mashing elements of Code Lyoko and Power Rangers while using the ReBoot name and villains to make it more recognizable. Let's just say people hate it, as at the time of its release, the official trailer became one of the most disliked videos on YouTube, and even getting the creator of Code Lyoko to comment on their Facebook. So, with this episode, the final episode of season one, the team decided to make a episode with all the characters we love, and basically use it to bash the fans of the original show.

So basically, the plot is the Guardians find a supercomputer hidden, and activate it, finding Mainframe, the setting of the original. There, Vector and Enigma go in after Megabyte, and meet Bob and the gang. But it does not last long as Vector and Googz joins Bob in defending a part of it from the User, who is revealed to be a manchild who is a fan of the original show living in his parents' basement and waiting twenty years for the place to go back online.

Yeah, it's easy to tell this episode, despite revisiting the location and heroes of the original show, is nothing more than something made to insult fans of the original ReBoot. The user (played by Mark Leiren-Young, the person who actually wrote this episode) is made to be nothing more than the show's idea on how to attack fans of the original, going as far as to have him be in his mother's basement and have it decorated with action figures and other merchandise. While Bob, Dot, and Enzo are nice to see again, they are not done well, as this episode basically disregards events after season one and act too different.

Yay, Bob, Dot, Enzo, Frisket!

[melayahm-592-949443 · 8/10 · 1 April 2018]

Finally the old characters back, with original voices. Shame that the CG is not even as good as the original series, 20 years ago, lazy animation, lazy texturing and lighting. But I was smiling to see them back again. Now we just need Mouse, Andraia and Matrix