My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) The game cubes appear longer and more slender during the course of this episode.
2) Dot Matrix dials only three numbers to contact Phong. Perhaps phone numbers are different in this computerized realm.
3) From where did those Binomes come and how did they appear behind Bob and Dot Matrix prior to the descending game? The closest Binomes were outside Megabyte's lair, and there were only three Binomes in all.

Since Cartoon Network has now aried the entire series (inculde the third season! Yay!), it's interesting to watch the characters' interaction change. Here, Megabyte is a villian, but very cartoony. By the end, *I* was cheering for his complete destruction!

Once inside the supercomputer, why didn't Bob yell for help? They all know him there. Or, have Glitch close the portal behind him. I got the impression he could come back any time he wanted.

This whole episode is about Bob's ideas of independence. That's why he goes to the Tor alone instead of talking to Dot as he promised Phong. And you still wonder why Bob wouldn't yell for help? [of course, he *should* warn other guardians in the supercomputer. . .obviously he has time, because time in the supercomputer is not the same as Mainframe time, as evidenced by his visit to the archives later in this episode]

Keep in mind, folks, as you nitpick, that this IS the pilot, so to speak. We gotta treat it with a little tenderness.

M@ Nelson
(Now, by the SECOND ep, it's all over, boys...)

Phong's phone number--Dot could be use a speed-dial code.

The vid windows Phong activates display information regarding Megabyte. They are processing a mile a nanosecond during the course of the conversation between Phong and Bob, but they abruptly cease their movement at the conclusion of the session. Furthermore, one vid window includes the initials FFP. Do they not mean FTP?

When Bob steps out of the tear, it disappears. Megabyte seems to be amazed; it turns out it was a command from the Supercomputer armory.

Ok, fine. Tears are hard to get rid of. Only one problem; In later episodes, Bob can mend tears using Glitch. I find it hard to believe that Bob used an armory command instead of Glitch and that Megabyte didn't know of this ability. (My format: Guardian. To *mend* and defend.)

Two more things:

1. As Bob and Dot are looking over the edge of the elevator (right after Bob's vest-thing is released) it looks like Dot's hair is shoulder-length. Of course, it could just be shadows.

2. When the Game is falling on the Tor, it seems to be falling only on the tower part (the big red thing). Afterwards, however, it envelops much more of Megabyte's domain.

Endoporpoise, I'm not sure I understand that 2nd nit. How do we know it envelops more than just the Tor itself? Space as well as time are different within a game.

Endoporpoise: the armory command wasn't to make the tear disappear, but to make Bob and Dot invisible. The portal created from the tear must have just been short-lived and unstable. But you're right--portals become much longer-lived later on.

About the armory command: The thing is, the portal doesn't just explode. I checked my tapes, and here's what happens: A golden doorway appears *in front of* the tear (still unstable). Then, Bob steps through the doorway and it collapses, turning into a little disk. The little golden disk flies up above the tear, eats it away, and disappears.

Then, MB says, "The tear! It's gone! But how?" Bob says, "Just a little command I picked up from the armory. Like these two!" and little balls float up and make them invisible.

Sure sounds like it was an armory command to me. Thus, my arguement still stands: Why is Megabyte surprised? Bob just came from the *home* of the Guardians, and closed a tear, just like *guardians* do.

About the Game: In the shot where the Game falls, it falls only on the Tor tower thing. Then, in a later establishing shot, from outside the Game, the Game covers about 5 times as much area.

Not to be defensive or anything. ;)

Did anyone notice the game didn't end? Megabyte says, "They must have gone back to the diner. Hurry!" No "game over" and no cube retreating back into the "sky".

Actually, I'm mistaken. The game is announced "over" when Bob drops into the portal, as if that's the objective of the game. Since Megabyte infected the game by taking over the User, presumably HE made reaching the portal the goal. The game lifts away and the cavern they're in reverts to a DIFFERENT cavern, and Bob and Dot's costumes revert to default mode.

The game falls on Silicon Tor and the surrounding sector of G-prime, so nearly all of Megabyte's minions could be in it along with the tear. Once inside the game, six non-viral binomes reboot into the game along with Bob and Dot. They weren't anywhere to be seen nearby before the game landed, and they disappear before the User strafes the deck of the space carrier. Maybe they took cover instead of just ducking like Bob and Dot.
Soon after, eleven fighters take off from the carrier after Megabyte. Alpha 4 is lost in the asteroids and after the viral battle cruiser is destroyed six remain to pursue Megabyte to the third level. Another four fighters disappear once they enter the cave, leaving just Bob and Dot to beat Megabyte.