Null Bot of the Bride (My Two Bobs Part III)

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Season Four (Movies: Daemon Rising, My Two Bobs): Null Bot of the Bride (My Two Bobs Part III)

By Peter Stoller on Sunday, March 03, 2002 - 8:35 pm:

This is a fantastic episode, one for the fans. A Wedding on ReBoot Mountain, with a surprise! By the time any serial gets to a wedding episode it's become very self-referential and demands a lot of viewer familiarity.

Dot has changed into a casual costume out of her Commander's outfit, but Mouse continues to go about in her gold armor even though the war against the viruses is over.

The girls have the stag party and Al's gay waiter is looking on.

The editing between Glitch Bob's worsening condition and the wedding in progress gets a bit choppy.

The string quartet plays the show's theme and the pirate theme.

Enzo's icon downloads that special little something to Welman. Enzo's icon briefly appears right side up after this. Once Phong announces, "Your icon is normal again" it appears inverted.

Dressed for the wedding, Enzo looks like the James Bond game character.

The wedding march is the show's theme.

Small portals emerge from Glitch Bob, revealing approximately 30 key tools. There should be more, shouldn't there? They demonstrate some pretty amazing feat of autonomous key tool abilities. Glitch must have summoned them all to help.

At the wedding, new Bob slugs Web Bob, which is unlike him. When Dot chooses new Bob, he gloats a little. When Glitch joins with new Bob he gloats a little more!

Glitch can tell the two Bobs apart. Glitch extracts code from new Bob and returns to Web Bob, downloading it. Web Bob is restored to his former appearence and voice. New Bob is unable to hold his composure...

And couldn't he have said something like, "Surprise!"? (No, I won't give it away here, this is the first post on this page.)

They fight. Boy, do they fight! Better choreography that the Daemon/Hexadecimal fight. Much more hands-on than they have done before. More deforming of the landscape with each other's bodies. Glitch doesn't even require vocal commands all the time anymore.

It's the icing on the wedding cake how he returns to Dot for "one final kiss."


By Peter Stoller on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 9:38 pm:

Okay, no spoilers.

Does anyone else find it a little hard to believe that Megabyte has been willingly masquerading as Bob for two and a half episodes without making any kind of overt or covert move to grab power?
Sure, he showed no particular skill at the games and encouraged Matrix to cheat to win, and he suggested that he return to the Supercomputer with the injured Bob, but I don't believe Megabyte could've behaved so much like Bob unless his own code was completely dormant or "asleep" while he ran entirely on Bob's code thinking he WAS Bob. Megabyte's personality only came through subconciously until it was "reawakened" by Glitch extracting Bob's code.


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