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About

ReBoot was a Canadian animated series that aired from 1994 to 2002.^[1] It was the first fully CGI-animated series, and still has quite a fan following despite the show's several cancellations and cliffhanger ending.

History

The show's concept was created by Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair after the production of the music video to the Dire Straits song Money For Nothing, which was the world's first computer-generated music video (shown below).

Several components of the CGI system failed during production of the music video, including one hard drive being destroyed by a lightning strike. This event inspired Pearson and Blair enough to develop the early concepts of ReBoot.^[2]

Plot

The show takes place entirely within a computer, and in later seasons other computer systems and networks. The plot revolves around the city of Mainframe and its inhabitants. Bob, the guardian, defends Mainframe against the viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Megabyte's ambition is to gain access to the Supercomputer by turning balls of unstable energy called "tears" into portals, while Hexadecimal's goal is to cause chaos, but only does so occasionally and in very unusual ways.

Bob and his friends, Dot and Enzo Matrix, serve as the show's main characters. Dot, who runs Dot's Diner, is a hard working businesswoman who helps plan major events, and even other businesses and mainframe. Enzo, Dot's younger brother, idolizes Bob and wishes to be a guardian himself one day.

Mainframe often encounters games that drop down from the sky into various parts of the city, and the three often enter these games in order to prevent parts of the city, as well as any unfortunate binomes who happen to be in the game's area when it lands, from being "nullified". Their purpose in the games is to defeat the "user" and keep him from winning the game, which would cause the area's nullification if it does. Upon entering the game, they "reboot" in order to gain access to the game's weapons, items, vehicles, and other equipment needed to defeat the user.

Cancellations

Fandom

ReBoot's "Reboot" (The Guardian Code)

External References