Seeking Out Strange New Life And--HEY! IS THAT REBOOT!? SWEET!

Yes, hello again, it is I, writing another small snippet of random nerd-indulging trivia! Well, as I stated in my last entry I was playing Star Trek Online, and the game was indeed great amounts of fun! Yes... yes... I clawed my way swiftly up through the ranks from Ensign to Admiral in little less then a month's time, and upon reaching the coveted rank of Federation Rear Admiral... promptly had my ass handed to me like an Ensign all over again! Yes, the jump from trouncing Cardassians and Romulans to Borg and the enigmatic Undine was QUITE the learning experience... that is to say, 'Wow! My new super cool ship is unstoppable! --Oh, no wait, I'm a pile of space debris now'.

But I digress! As the odd title above this particular entry indicates, my interest has once again shifted, if only temporarily. Yes, I have begun sitting through an old computer animated cartoon called ReBoot. Now, this is relevent to my usual passion, that of Transformers, as the animation studio that produced Beast Wars was also the show that created ReBoot.

ReBoot was a cartoon that took place inside a computer system named Mainframe. It followed the adventures of a Guardian program named Bob, whose mission was to protect the various computer systems connected to a network simply known as 'The Net'. In Mainframe he is often tasked with playing in various Video Games sent as massive purple blocks of energy into the city, where he fights against the computer's User. The User is never seen outside of his in-game avatars, and if he wins a video game, it wipes out a large section of the city, therefor, it is up to the Guardian to ensure that doesn't happen. The other threats to the city come in the form of two computer viruses, Megabyte and Hexadecimal, who obviously want to infect and/or destroy the city for themselves. 

ReBoot was notable for being the first fully CGI television show ever put on the air for multiple seasons, though often times that honor is mistakenly given to Beast Wars, as the show did have a bit more popularity at the time, and Reboot was only on the air originally for two seasons, in the United States at least, as the show was created by a Canadian company.

The show has been off the air for some time now, having started it's run in 1994 and ended in 2001. My recent rediscovering of Beast Wars sparked my desire to watch this series again, and it was perhaps by coincidence that shortly before I began watching ReBoot again, I stumbled upon a small teaser trailer for what appears to be either a... *ahem* 'reboot' of the series through a movie, or hopefully a continuation of the story the series ended on.

Well, I suppose that's all for now.

~Signing off