The Episode with No Name

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Season Three: The Episode with No Name

Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket find themselves in a port system. AndrAIa and Frisket search for a ship to take them to the Web. Matrix runs into Turbo, the Prime Guardian, who tells Matrix that he and all other guardians have been infected by the super-virus Daemon. Matrix, Turbo, AndrAIa, and Frisket defeat the infected guardians' attacks as they try to capture Matrix--because he carries Bob's clean guardian programming.
By Sarah Perkins on Monday, June 07, 1999 - 1:46 pm:

I noticed something interesting about AndrAIa's trident in this episode. She wears it on her belt as a short rod; when she needs to use it, she takes it out, shakes it, and it extends! Did this remind anyone else of the denn'bok, or Minbari fighting pike, from _Babylon 5_?


By Mark Morgan on Tuesday, June 15, 1999 - 7:56 pm:

See my comments over at "Trust No One" for why Matrix should have shot Turbo anyway.


By Sarah Perkins on Thursday, August 19, 1999 - 8:48 pm:

Ok, log another homage for the Reboot creators. When Matrix wants to clear the bar, he tells his gun, "Death blossom mode!" It targets everything in sight and begins rapidly spinning in all directions. This is taken directly from the sci-fi movie _The Last Starfighter_. Alex's ship has a weapon called Death Blossom, which spins the ship in all directions and shoots everything within range.


By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Friday, August 20, 1999 - 10:37 am:

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Is Daemon psychic? Based on Turbo's claim, Daemon somehow anticipated that Mike the TV would shatter Hexadecimal's looking glass and thus allow a pre-arranged web creature to enter Mainframe.
2) A piece of paper floats by Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket, but it is transparent.
3) Not truly a "nit-pick," but there is a Star Wars reference as represented by the white-clad Storm Troopers during various scenes in the marketplace.
4) Is that an American flag (or at least one without the blue portion decorated with white stars) Enzo Matrix bypasses as he is leaping from rooftop to rooftop?
5) Not truly a "nit-pick," but there is a Bionic Man reference as represented by the slow-motion shot of Enzo Matrix leaping. You even hear the corresponding Bionic Man noise.
6) Enzo Matrix is sliding across a straight, horizontal wire without any inclined plane to the wire. How does that work?
7) A creature carrying a Binome atop of its back is oscillating prior to Enzo Matrix's pursuit but is noticed again oscillating in a sequential scene with AndrAIa.
8) Is the Binome incorrigibly applying lipstick a Princess Leia spoof?
9) Why is Enzo Matrix's gun aiming at the robot Sprite's groin? What harm would it do exactly?
10) A white-headed bar attendant flees from the bar but was not previously observed within the bar.
11) There are white crates behind the female search engine that were not behind her in the earlier scene with Frisket. Consequently, there are no crates behind the female search engine not much later.
12) Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket had not prevented deletion; they had prevented nullification. Enzo Matrix misidentified the two when describing the sequence of events that had occurred during "Game Over."
13) The three infected Guardians arrive with five drones but appear with more drones as the episode progresses.
14) If memory serves me correctly, Turbo's hair was white in "Trust No One." However, it is blonde in this episode.
15) The Binome who stole Enzo Matrix's key tool notifies the female infected Guardian that Enzo Matrix reclined his key tool. Does he not mean reclaimed?
16) AndrAIa's nails and arm spikes are not protruded in far-off shots but always in close-up shots during her and the female infected Guardian's showdown.
17) Not truly a "nit-pick," but the sailing vessel the female search engine was sanitizing of vomit has IMAX inscribed on its side. Could this be an allusion to the IMAX-operated ReBoot ride?


By Peter Stoller on Friday, January 11, 2002 - 10:46 pm:

Howcome Turbo didn't use Copeland to mend Glitch?
(HA! Gotcha this time!)


By Peter Stoller on Monday, February 04, 2002 - 8:57 pm:

Matrix and AndrAIa are in this new system for barely a nano before the blue binome with the bloodshot eye steals Glitch. When did he have a chance to be instructed by the Guardians to do so? Even if the Guardians detect the presence of "Guardian 452" the instant the game ends, it should take some time to recruit a local to take his key tool. Of course, if the Guardians detected his arrival the moment the game LANDED in this system, then the blue binome could've gotten his instructions before the game ended. (Matrix's icon carries a copy of Bob's Guardian protocol.)

The blue binome escapes through the streets, so why does Matrix decide to chase him not on the street but from rooftop to rooftop? To show off some "Thief of Baghdad"-style stunts, I suppose.

I did not notice until now that the Guardians arrive via what Daemon later calls a "zoom room".

Why do the Guardians first go about upsetting the market square when their real goal is to locate Guardian 452?

Turbo is there! How did he manage to find Matrix before the other Guardians did? He's resisting Daemon, so I doubt he used a zoom room. He could have ported into the system using Copeland, but he couldn't have detected the presence of Guardian 452 any sooner than the other Guardians did.

Copeland and Glitch exhibit some autonomous activity for the first time, even if it's nothing more than saying "Wassup, bro?" in Key Tool language.


By Peter Stoller on Tuesday, February 05, 2002 - 8:29 pm:

The Search Engine tells AndrAIa that the Guardians have restricted inter-Net travel, but the port appears to be open and bearing traffic unhindered to and from the Net in both this episode and the next.


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