#just need to add the black and purple but like i was hand turing the sewingmachine to avoid makeing noise and im pretty sure im going to

[cryptidm0ths]

I got the first panel of the himeru jacket kinda done

[leighlikescartoons]

A Look at ReBoot: The Guardian Code (Official Trailer)

Now, I’ve never watched the original ReBoot, it was a little before my time. It started airing after the era of cartoons I’m drawn to (60′s-80′s) and stopped airing before my memory started cataloging any information. I feel the need to say that because of just how disappointed everyone who did watch Reboot seem to be.

I also love Power Rangers. My favorite series, that isn’t animated, is Power Rangers Jungle Fury. The ridiculous fights, gratuitous explosions, and almost good, but still nacho cheesy dialogue is the guiltiest of guilty pleasure for me. ReBoot: The Guardian Code looks like a show that will be stuffed full and ready to burst with just that. 

The trailer opens with who can only be the villain. A dark, dingy warehouse, things all over the floor. Zip-up hoodie, black, hood up and walking towards a computer with 6-8 monitors of various shades of purple. Typing on one keyboard and hitting enter on the other. Oh yeah, there’s no doubt in my mind. This guy is a hacker and a good one at that. They’re not pulling out any stops with this villain straight out of the 90′s.

Cut to... a school. Well, of course it’s a school, cause it’s gonna be one of those shows. Kids love shows set in high-school for whatever reason. “Alan Turing High, only the most tech progressive school in the city,” one of the main characters says into the front facing camera of a smartphone. Landscape, but upturned just slight, so the actual camera can get a good sweeping shot of her talking mechanically into what I can only assume is her vlog. 

Ok... a few things right off the bat. First and foremost, “the most tech progressive school in the city.” What city? How many tech progressive schools are in your city? You know this is fictional right? Dude lie. Most tech progressive school in the state, country, world! You picked city? You may as well have said “Most tech progressive school on this street. Boo. Second, she’s talking into a front facing smart phone. If you’re gonna go cheesy, go cheesy baby. Make it a camcorder in one hand, while she’s idly scrolling through a PDA in the other. Remember PDA’s? How can you not put one in a show like this? I mean, come on.

“Nothing happens on the first day of school!” Except mad dunks and a kid moving into the basketball court because it’s his house now. I have to give props to vlog girl, because she nailed the newtuber vibe. The, ‘I’ll just point a camera at myself and hope for the best. Charisma? Naaaaah don’t need that. I’ll just go with the monotone approach. Will I be entertaining? We’ll see.’.

Austin and Parker get reassigned to homeroom “0″ and there’s this great fadecut. It’s quite possibly my favorite moment in any trailer I’ve ever seen. The duo look at each other, the scene fades to... a scene where they’re standing in the exact same positions staring at each other in the exact same way. It only lasts a second before Austin pulls Parker closer in a sort of half-hug, but it’s fantastic. Bravo to who ever edited the trailer together.

So then they get transported into, what I can only assume is the cyber-world. They’ve got a great color scheme. Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. Where have I seen this before? Anyways, I have a strong feeling that Austin, the lanky kid that looks like the “Caucasian 1″ preset in every video game ever, all decked out in red is probably going to be the leader. Then there’s Trey, the one who moved into the Basketball Court in blue, who’s going to be the hot headed second in command. He’ll probably have an episode where he gets mad and runs off to deal with the bad guy alone only to get saved by everyone else with a big ‘ol “We’re a team!” message at the end. Then there’s Parker, short and in green. He’s be the dorky one. Well, they’re all dorks, but he’ll be the extra dorky one who knows every little thing about everything. Finally Tamra, the vlogger in yellow. She’ll almost definitely be... the girl who most likely won’t do anything remarkable because the writers don’t actually know how to write a cool girl character. You just write her the same as you would write a cool guy character, it’s not that hard. But I’m rooting for you Tamra, hopefully you’ll get to be more than the girl that red and blue both have a crush on and end up fighting over. Because that’s lame.

Then comes VERA. An artificial intelligence that gets put into a physical body. My favorite type of character. No, it actually is, like no sarcasm. Aya, from Green Lantern the Animated Series? Fantastic. She saved Hal, Razor, and Kilowag more than once. Great character. Plus it adds to that cheesy factor I just really adore.

Finally we have a good look at the action and what the animation will look like while various characters spout lines in the background giving vague plot points. This part of the trailer is important because it tells you a few things. A) This is a cheesy high-schoolers saving the world type show and you can’t really expect much out of it. 2) The bad guy is trying to... do something for... a reason. C) The action scenes are going to be worth any painful dialogue and jokes that come along with the cheesy premise.

All in all, I’m pretty excited. If this show aired Week-to-Week, I wouldn’t even bother, but since Netflix picked it up, it’ll shape up to be a few enjoyable mornings worth of television.