My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) What ever happened to Megabyte's pet null, Nibbles?
2) After Bob burns his hand and some of his wrist and consequently returns to Dot Matrix, the burn marks vanish during the rest of the episode "System Crash" and all throughout this episode.
3) If everything was restored, would Dot and Enzo Matrix's father and the Twin City not appear? For a matter of fact, none of the Binomes assimilated by Megabyte nor Megabyte's lair itself would have been de-infected if my theory as to how this restoration process functions is true. My theory is this: The process restores everything that has occurred after the most recent upgrade. The most recent upgrade was in "Infected," and much of Megabyte's minions were still dominated by Megabyte.
4) The thespian Binome who portrays the adolescent Enzo Matrix is flung forward and smashes into the screen. But one question remains: What screen? The performance allegedly occurred on-stage in an auditorium presented to an audience.
5) Raytracer/Web Surfr is not included in the musical finale at the conclusion of this episode. Personally, I would feel offended.
6) What of the Supervirus Daemon? Bob mentioned how they shall confront Megabyte and then Daemon in "Mousetrap," but we never see high or low of this elusive virus. My bet is that Daemon shall pose as the primary villain in the series if it is ever resumed.
I'm pretty sure there was a binome in the background as RayTracer during the musical number.
I, too, wondered what happened to Daemon. I figured one of two things:
1) ReBoot is primarily the story of Mainframe, not the Net. If this was intended to be the last season, it is a fitting conclusion.
2) Daemon was intended to be the next big plot arc, should there have been a fourth season. Sadly, it doesn't appear that this will be the case; Mainframe has said that while they still hold ReBoot near and dear, they are too busy with other projects to begin work on another season. Maybe we can get them to do a direct-to-video-movie; those seem to be working well in the children's markets these days...
M@ Nelson
My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) As we observe the destitute inhabitants of Mainframe conforming to their new living arrangements within the Principal Office, there is an infant Binome on line for a port-a-pottie. How independent and receptacle-trained for an infant.
2) Bob, Dot Matrix, and others exit from the Principal Office and witness the collapse of the system. Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa are comforting one another and Bob and Dot Matrix are cradled in either's arms. Then in sequential scenes, Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa are separated and Bob and Dot Matrix are poised beside each other. Furthermore, Frisket who was once a far distance away from Phong is now near Phong and slobbering him after restoration.
3) After Megabyte's minions are de-infected, there are some residual minions visible behind the immense "princess" Binome as she is tossing up the eyeglass-wearing Binome whose hair is parted in the middle.
4) There is no thespian Binome portraying Frisket during the musical finale, particularly at the moment in which Enzo Matrix antagonizes the Mortal Kombat spoof's user.
5) You can clearly see the games in which Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket had entered from the episode "Icons" to the episode "Number 7," with the obvious exception for the episode "Where No Sprite Has Gone Before," in the background of the older Enzo Matrix and AndrAIa, during which time Enzo Matrix is singing, "I grew up and lost my innocence," or something along those lines. For starters, the trio (i.e., Enzo Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket) had entered a much larger amount of games than exhibited. Secondly, the thespian Binome portraying the older Enzo Matrix indicated himself as having grown up, yet the legitimate older Enzo Matrix has referred to it as compiling in all preceding episodes. And finally, at the conclusion of the cinema-rama of the games it reads, "Don't roll farther than this."
6) The thespian Binome portraying the older Enzo Matrix sings, "I've dreamed of this every lonely night," but Enzo Matrix was accompanied by AndrAIa and Frisket the entire time. How exactly is this experiencing lonely nights?
Mr. Nelson, I assure you, there is not a single thespian Binome portraying Raytracer/Web Surfr. I have the musical finale on tape, and I at no point noticed his character.
Considering everything was restored to its former glory, even that which was prior to Megabyte's viral intrusion, does this mean all nulls are returned to their original state? This was never explained or illustrated at all.
I assume not, since that would mean the restoration of the Twin City, which obviously did not happen.
Also, why is the restored Enzo so young?(01, right?) According to Phong in "Painted Windows," changes to Mainframe become permanent "when the scheduled system backup occurs." Shouldn't the restored Enzo be 10?
D. Stuart, regarding nit # 6 above. I think it's referring to all the other inhabitants of mainframe that Enzo can no longer see or talk to since he's stuck in the games.
The end song is based on "I am the Very Model of A Modern Major General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."
...the immense "princess" Binome as she is tossing up the eyeglass-wearing Binome whose hair is parted in the middle... = ...the immense "princess" Binome as she is tossing up the [eyeglasses]-wearing Binome whose hair is parted in the middle... Typo.
Old McPhearson's refusal of evacuating his home is what was responsible for Enzo Matrix's dichotomy. That is, another less aged Enzo Matrix being recognized during the restoration process. Along with Mike the TV (ref.: "Nullzilla") and Turbo (ref.: "Trust No One"), Old McPhearson is on something of a hit list.
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Maybe the system backup was made before Megabyte came to town. The sprites were losing the games, and creating nulls, then the backup was made, then....no, then Enzo wouldn't have recognised Bob....hmmm
This episode doesn't dissapoint!
There's time for nearly every supporting character in Mainframe to appear in this episode. It's a slow death.
The city is restored to whatever the last indexed hard drive contents were, (about the time of the second season) which included Megabyte and his minions, plus updated files: all the active PIDs Phong indexed. Characters that were deleted since the second season are restored, then disinfectant sweeps through Mainframe and washes away all traces of Megabyte's corruption. It passes over Hexadecimal because she's now indexed as a file that belongs in the system. Hack and Slash still look battered because they were so when Phong indexed them.
Matrix's updated PID has not been indexed properly, so the system should restore him to the last saved version, "one-oh". Instead a copy of Enzo, version "oh-one" (first season) is generated in addition to the updated version.
Mike the TV looks almost too plastic in this episode, stretching and warping all about like a Tex Avery cartoon.