Mend & Defend

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Season Three: Mend & Defend

Dot, Mouse, and Phong defend the Principal Office against the combined attack of Megabyte, Hexadecimal, and their viral troops. Enzo Matrix's new guardian protocol is triggered by the arrival of a game cube, and he enters a game for the first time as Mainframe's guardian.
By Sarah Perkins on Wednesday, May 19, 1999 - 2:23 pm:

In the game, there is a talking deer head mounted on a wall. When the user's chainsaw weapon flies in the wall near it, it comments: "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!" If this isn't a foreshadowing of the end of "Game Over", I don't know what is!


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Wednesday, June 16, 1999 - 8:38 pm:

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) I never noticed golf courses in Mainframe until the premiere of this episode.
2) Dot Matrix was donning an all-black attire in the conclusion to season two and with burn marks scattered about her body. However, she appears in her common attire and with no burn marks in the commencement of this episode.
3) There is a CPU Binome with John Wayne's voice who abides by Dot Matrix's command. Be that as it may, this same CPU Binome no longer speaks with John Wayne's voice any time thereafter.
4) Megabyte prior to, during, and proceeding his free-fall is apparently covered with black armor. Last time I checked he has always been blue.
5) After Dot and Enzo Matrix enter the game, their hover-boards vanish. Although we have had glimpses of the characters literally folding them up and placing them into their back pockets, no such scenes were visible at this point.
6) Frisket emerges from the grave in the game and approaches Enzo Matrix, who is sitting down. Despite this fact, Enzo Matrix is back on his feet in the sequential scene. Enzo must be faster than a speeding Frisket!
7) A rectangular Binome rustles through some trees, complaining of Enzo Matrix's demand of him and others locating and concealing the user's potential ammunition. When that Binome does in fact stumble across some ammunition, though, the Binome is now of spherical shape.
8) As the user is firing at a Enzo Matrix who is impersonating Michael Jackson, during which time Enzo Matrix concludes his dancing by moon-walking in one direction, Enzo Matrix journeys to the left near the piano. To our surprise, Enzo Matrix is situated to the right instead at which there is no piano in the sequential scene. Furthermore, there is an overview shot of the cabin, and the piano previously moved is back in its original position and the bullet holes are nowhere near the piano (i.e., Enzo Matrix was dancing beside the piano as he was eluding the user's gunshot).
9) Both Megabyte and Dot Matrix utter the line "I want the best treatment" during the course of this episode. How curious.
10) At the very conclusion, as everyone is laughing over Cecil's insistence of not hugging before customers, you can clearly see ABC's (Megabyte's aviating minions) still on the view screen. Earlier on much of the ABC's (if not all) were obliterated by the Principal Office's frontal firing turrets.


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Wednesday, June 16, 1999 - 8:40 pm:

The creators/writers have developed this series so that it would be more directed toward the older audience as of the third season (e.g., emphasized violence, sexuality, etc.). That is, at least in my opinion.


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Monday, June 21, 1999 - 7:03 pm:

Something that once flew by my head regarding this episode I have recently come to realize. After Enzo Matrix reboots and becomes a spoof of Michael Jackson as Michael's Thriller zombie character, his right eye is released from its skeletal socket and remains hanging down as if it were a pendulum until Enzo Matrix re-inserts it into its proper place. It is Enzo Matrix's right eye that is damaged in the episode "Game Over." Coincidental or mere foreshadowing? You decide.


By The Evil Dead on Friday, June 25, 1999 - 11:43 am:

I have only one thing to say;

"Groooooovy."


By Hugh Mowen on Monday, June 28, 1999 - 8:43 am:

When early on Enzo checks Glitch for game stats, he says "we're on the final level of a game
called malicious corpses." Later when he and Dot are hiding behind toomstones he says "and on the next level the game --sprites have
flesh on their bones." How can a final level have a next level?


By The Evil Dead on Wednesday, June 30, 1999 - 9:41 am:

Short answer: Enzo goofed on the latter statement.


By Nawdle on Monday, August 09, 1999 - 3:53 am:

My brother and I just got "Duke Nukem 3D:Atomic Edition".And I noticed the user said "Grooovy" just like Duke.Did they get the saying in the episode from that or what?

And did anybody else think it was funny when Dot tried to walk in her Elvira/Morticia Addams type dress and fell down?


By The Evil Dead on Monday, August 09, 1999 - 11:51 am:

My brother and I just got "Duke Nukem 3D:Atomic Edition".And I noticed the user said "Grooovy" just like Duke. Did they get the saying in the episode from that or what?

Close, Nawdie.

The whole game sequence was supposed to be a parody of "Evil Dead 2", whose main character was obviously a big inspiration for Duke's personality in DN3D.


By Nawdle on Monday, August 09, 1999 - 4:20 pm:

The Evil Dead.

I thought that was the case,but I wasn't sure.And it's NAWDLE.Thanks for the information.This a very
cool episode.All I can say about this now is;

"Grooovy."


By The Evil Dead on Tuesday, August 10, 1999 - 6:46 am:

And it's NAWDLE.

Sorry, I didn't read it all that clearly at first.

All I can say about this now is; "Grooovy."

Yeah, "Hail to the King, Baby!"


By Nawdle on Tuesday, August 10, 1999 - 11:05 pm:

D. Stuart.

About Dot donning an "all-black" attire at the end of season 2 (In your June 16th 10:38 pm post.).She doesn't.What she did don is a brown camouflage outfit (I triple-checked before posting to make sure I was right.).


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Tuesday, October 05, 1999 - 1:59 pm:

As the user is firing at a Enzo Matrix who is impersonating Michael Jackson... = As the user is firing at [Enzo Matrix, who is impersonating Michael Jackson]...


By Matthew Patterson (Mpatterson) on Wednesday, August 02, 2000 - 2:47 pm:

Y'know, what would have made this episode perfect is if one of the characters had rebooted as Tim Curry's character from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Oh, did anyone notice the policewoman binome? Dressed and talked just like the characters in Fargo?


By Matthew Patterson (Mpatterson) on Sunday, October 15, 2000 - 7:18 pm:

I've actually seen Evil Dead II now. Kinda wish I hadn't. (Well... it was the funniest horror movie I've ever seen. But beyond that... mrah.)


By Peter Stoller on Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 10:58 am:

New title sequence featuring Megabyte's voice-over in place of Bob's shows clips summarizing "Web World Wars".

The episodes feature a new numbering system, e.g.
"v3.1.1" (season 3, volume 1, episode 1). There are four seperate volumes, each containing four episodes.

The animation is improved over earlier episodes.
The Principal Office shield is transparent where it used to be opaque. Blur effects appear.

The War Room features greater set detailing. Now that Dot's Diner is gone it becomes the "home" set. Dot, too, appears different: she has cleavage where she used to sport a "monobreast".
Specky is introduced as the War Room tactical coordinator.

Mouse changes into her gold armor and it becomes her regular costume for the duration of the series. She is never seen in her black and white attire again.

Dot inverts her icon and changes into Commander Dot. Her icon stays inverted hereafter.

Megabyte does not wear black armor (as suggested by D.Stuart), rather, the twilight in Mainframe's sky has a strong yellow-orange cast making Megabyte's blue plating appear dark and colorless in that shot.

The binomes who have rebooted as zombies wear little death-head's icons instead of the standard black & whites.

This is the first game that Frisket reboots into. For the first time we see a closeup of Frisket's dog-tag style icon, and it appears to be a gold & black Guardian icon.

Enzo's and Dot's icons disappear once they reboot. Enzo's right eye falling out deliberately foreshadows "Game Over". Speaking of Dot's newly acquired cleavage, check her out in that plunging-neckline Elvira dress!

Both Hexadecimal's and Frisket's doctors are instucted to administer "the best treatment, understand? The best."

Glitch's passive functions are intact, but it's active functions are not. Makes sense.

Yes, it was fun to see the Frances MacDermot binome, carrying an Oscar and acting like her character from "Fargo".


By Merat on Monday, June 24, 2002 - 9:22 pm:

Warning Season 4 Spoilers:


In this episode, the name on the tapeplayer is "Welman." In the movie Evil Dead II, the professor opened a portal that let a great evil through into this world by reading aloud from the Book of the Dead (aka Manual of Mortality :) ) into the tapeplayer. In season 4 we learn that Dot and Enzo's father WELMAN Matrix opened a portal that allowed a great evil through into their world. This may be coincidence, but I thought it was worth noting.


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