So, what, did no one watch it?

I watched it. Boy, Daemon wasn't what I expected.
Seeing young Dot and her Dad was fun.

Hey, I go to school in Canada! You can't fault me for not watching it yet!

If my friend back home in America failed to tape this, however, I'm going to trap her in a game and get her nullified!

I am suprised a number of the voice-over actors from the first three seasons (minus Bob and younger Enzo Matrix) have reprised their speaking parts. The voice-over actors for Phong and Dot Matrix have been part of the series from the very beginning. The same goes for Hack and Slash, whom, I forget, do or do not still have those crude modifications done to them by Phong in this episode. You would think by the time Mainframe wages a war with a supervirus, obviously giving a small gap between Season Three's finale and this episode, Hack and Slash would be fully redesigned.

This series is definitely for older, more mature audiences as of this episode. Honestly, they were heading this way around the end of Season Two. I cannot imagine anyone below ten or eleven, no matter how "immune" to world violence (the source being movies and social standards, to name a few) they are, having rectangle-shaped entities being deleted by shots from the infected Guardians is a step forward into PG-13 territory.

Time for some of my nit-picks. My major complaint is that I actually found the older Enzo Matrix far more strong, at least in character, than Bob. I agree with Bob on the moral objections regarding loss of Guardians' lives, but he also did not seem to do anything at all during the course of this episode and its subsequent chapter. As for the younger Enzo Matrix, I thought his introduction since Season Three's finale was always a downside. I would rather have one Enzo Matrix--the older one. Perhaps the writers shall develop a way for the two to be amalgamated. And lastly, anyone have Season Three's finale taped? Perhaps you can confirm whether or not Dot Matrix appeared in her regular red and off-white outfit in the group photograph at the very conclusion. Then again, I suppose all Sprites can instantly alter their attire at the simple click of their icons, as demonstrated by the younger Enzo Matrix at some point in this episode. Or is that in "Cross Nodes?" I am supplying a post in there in a moment, anyway.

I neglected to ask this and the following paragraph before, but where is Ray Tracer/Web Surfer? I thought he had a thing going with Mouse, whose role in this episode and the one before has been rather noticeably diminished.

So Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa can now safely trek around the 'Net on motorcycles and without any protective suits? What of the exposure to the 'Net degrading Sprites? However, it did cross my mind that they were instead on the Web, not the 'Net. Which one is the dangerous version? I never got the difference between the two, actually.

A few other comments just came to me. Correct me if any of them pertain to the episode "Cross Nodes." Cheap shot on Mainframe, Inc.'s part to recycle a character's graphical image and try to pull her off as another character. Recall the female Guardian with purple dreadlocks and green skin who sacrifices herself to plant that egg-shaped weapon? That, by the way, would not have transpired if AndrAIa allowed the older Enzo Matrix to delete her. How come it seems everyone is ignoring the older Enzo Matrix, only to find that he was right after all? Pardon the divergence. Getting back on track, the said female Guardian was also a character in the episode in which AndrAIa and the older Enzo Matrix enter the system with a port to the 'Net. Of course, she could have always been the same Guardian, but the different voice and less belligerent attitude give me another impression.

In reference to Daemon, one word: attractive! The voice and visage are a wonderfully, deliciously combined asset. Additionally, she is certainly less vile and in fact more prone not to inflict harm when in comparison to someone such as Megabyte.

After mentioning Megabyte, a remark apropos of his sister, Hexadecimal, comes to mind. I never knew she took a liking to Bob. And she is insanely powerful. Good thing she is on Mainframe's side.

First nit here: The Cartoon Network did not promote the new show much at all; many fans were not aware ReBoot had resumed.

The Toonami introductory animation and bumpers are a waste of program time where the title sequences should have been.

They show the title sequence for this first episode only and none for the subsequent episodes. No voice over this time, just an encapsulation of season 3 in clips and a theme newly arranged with electric guitar. ReBoot rocks!

The Twin City is destroyed, as described way back in "AndrAIa".

The 2-D representation of the Net shows it to be, of course, a map of the Earth-- the Users' domain.

Dot, Mouse and Matrix are shown to be wearing something like wristwatches. Dot has changed costume again--out of rebel camoflauge and back to "command dot com". Mouse is also out of camo and back in grid-patterned trousers.

Mainframe is at war again and the violence quotient has been upped tremendously. There are new guns installed to defend the port. The Guardian tanks crash and burn and several of Mainframe's security guard binomes are blown to bits, disintegrating before our eyes.

Mainframe logs on to the Net; an irregularly shaped but entirely stable apeture appears in Mainframe's "sky". This has not happened before in the series; all we've been shown before are portals, a gateway and whatever that elastic hole the Codemasters use is.

Young Enzo and Hexadecimal wear their icons inverted. In "End Program" they wore them right side up.

Mike the TV is now very plastic and is animated much more broadly than any other character.

We finally see inside the Supercomputer. Outwardly it looks like a lot of identical islands linked by bridges-- a network. Inwardly we see only Daemon's throne room, which appears to be the Supercomputer's clockspeed room, containing a huge pendulum. Daemon exhibits some connection to time.

When Enzo reboots as "Mini-me" his icon is right side up again.

Matrix has kept his icon in game sprite mode since "System Crash". He seems to prefer to keep his icon in game sprite mode all the time now. Here Matrix reboots without first changing his icon. In later games he clearly changes his icon back to Guardian mode so he can reboot. Once Matrix has rebooted as "Dr. Evil" he wears a standard black & white icon. Andraia wears one too, on her belt and inverted.

Up until now references to Daemon have been gender neutral, and Mike expected to see something else entirely, so how does Dot know to refer to Daemon as "she"?