Nullzilla

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Season Two: Nullzilla

Hexadecimal is infected by a strange creature from another world, which causes all the nulls in Mainframe to swarm over her--creating Nullzilla, a huge monster which threatens the city. With the help of Phong's gadgets, Bob, Dot, Enzo, Frisket, and Mike the TV battle the giant null monster and try to save the city--and Hexadecimal.
By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 8:18 pm:

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Hexadecimal's looking glass is shattered by the program displayed upon Mike the TV's screen, but the shattered condition of the looking glass appears to be different in a sequential glimpse of this same looking glass.
2) What good is a cage through which a null may escape? Nibbles, Megabyte's pet null, easily slips away from his alleged confines.
3) AndrAIa is beside Enzo Matrix and one of the null bins as Enzo Matrix is assuring her that he shall return. Then in the scene to follow, while Bob is inquiring whether or not Enzo Matrix has notified AndrAIa of the truth regarding his Guardianship, AndrAIa is now beside Phong and quite a distance away from the null bin. Furthermore, they mentioned emancipating the nulls from the bins but clearly leave them behind. Astonishingly enough, those same nulls have been released and are being pursued by our quartet (i.e., Bob, Dot Matrix, Enzo Matrix, and Frisket) in a later scene. Who unleashed them and how come we were not privileged to have this particular scene exhibited to us?
4) The infected Hexadecimal's eyes are red as she approaches Scuzzy and Mike the TV. However, they abruptly turn blue prior to the nulls encompassing her.
5) During Mike the TV's comment repetitiously stating, "Have I seen a null?", Scuzzy is nowhere to be found. Be that as it may, Scuzzy is then presented as being on Mike the TV's left in a group shot. Where was Scuzzy that entire time?
6) Enzo Matrix and Frisket are conspicuously four to five feet away from Dot Matrix. After Bob surveys Nullzilla and we hear Enzo Matrix exclaiming, "Cool," Enzo Matrix and Frisket are now less than a foot away from Dot Matrix.
7) Nullzilla advances toward Bob's apartment, and the quintet (i.e., Bob, Dot Matrix, Enzo Matrix, Frisket, and Mike the TV) is poised directly behind Nullzilla. Where exactly did they come from and how come we had not noticed them behind Nullzilla not that much earlier in the scene?
8) When colliding into Bob's apartment, Nullzilla causes the eight ball to propel outward. To our surprise, though, Nullzilla miraculously expectorates (def.: to cough up) that same eight ball. Moreover, the eight ball is in a different location as was previously viewed after our quintet launched it into Nullzilla's abdomen.


By Mark Morgan on Thursday, June 10, 1999 - 9:30 pm:

Let me get this straight: the entire Web Wars, the destruction of Mainframe, and all the attendant horrors of the third season were *Mike's* fault? Wow!

Hey, I know that Mike gets on Bob's nerves, but he left him in the presence of an extremely unstable virus!

Hmmm: Megabyte calls Nibbles "father"!

This episode should be required viewing over at Power Rangers Studio--it would help keep them from taking themselves too seriously.

Catch the production code? Dot tells Phone to try procedure 9508 on the nulls.


By Matthew Patterson (Mpatterson) on Wednesday, August 04, 1999 - 10:24 pm:

I love this thing. Every bit of it. I love the way they did this. Shame on the company for not doing more ReBoot.


By Mike Konczewski on Friday, August 06, 1999 - 10:35 am:

This was not just a parody of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", but also had references to "Godzilla" (the original), "Ultraman", "Voltron", and Rock-Em Sock-em Robots.


By Peter Stoller on Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 9:25 pm:

A large dash of "Thunderbirds" thrown in for good measure.


By Peter Stoller on Friday, February 01, 2002 - 9:54 pm:

The Web is invading Mainfraime, so the time is just right for a comedic episode? The scary one comes later.

Megabyte calls nibbles "Father". The mind reels with the implications!


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