ReBoot: The Guardian Code. I'm just gonna say this outright, I'm very late on this, this was a product of 2018 and anything that can be said about the show had been said already by much better content creators. However, I have a connection that gives me some justification. This show was made by the same guy who made MP4ORCE.
A while back, I did a review of MP4ORCE Beyond Real, a show I considered to be the worst show I've ever seen, and I still stand by that claim. ReBoot: The Guardian Code had opened up a whole other can of worms when it came to the show's creator Michael Hefferon, and that's gonna be my prime focus as the new ReBoot is done and dusted.
Hefferon had previously worked for Berliner Film Companie (going by the fact that he had helped work on a bulk of the projects they funded), but had also worked on some misc. children's media, MP4ORCE being his first hurrah as an original project
Sometime after MP4ORCE petered out of existence, Hefferon became the CEO of Rainmaker Entertainment, formerly known as Mainframe Entertainment. Under Hefferon's thumb, Rainmaker produced some CG adaptation of Spy Kids nobody really talks about, he helped produce the Bob the Builder revival and had become head of a ReBoot revival, which turned out to be a travesty.
There was testimony from a Rainmaker employee, but due to it being posted on 4Chan its legitimacy had been disputed, though some details can easily be considered true. For instance, Hefferon has a son, and a character in ReBoot: The Guardian Code is named after him (Austin)
Another big one is how it was claimed that Hefferon turned the show into his own pet project, basing it on another certain project he worked on years before, you know, MP4ORCE, and it's all coming together. Hefferon seemed like a one-trick pony (well most of the time.), and it shows here.
It seems that Hefferon either thinks highly of himself or lacks foresight, in one episode of this show, he goes out of his way to incorporate a basement dweller to take the piss out of fans of the original ReBoot. And people say Teen Titans Go was rude to fans, at least the original Teen Titans was garbage to begin with.
Then comes the big one, ReBoot: The Guardian Code supposedly ripping off Code Lyoko, do I agree with that claim? Well I claimed that one character from MP4ORCE was ripped off physically from Kevin 11, so why not rub some more salt into the wound? The similarities are so obvious that even the creator of Code Lyoko weighed in on it, and agreed with detractors.
A team of four kids who're aided by an AI guide? Code Lyoko. Traveling into a virtual world to take on an enemy? Code Lyoko. The world being the work of someone related to a key character? Code Lyoko. Corruption in game leading to one becoming evil in real life? Code Lyoko. A game being made as a means of recruiting the best players to take on a greater evil? South Park, Last Starfighter and this is essentially another MP4ORCE.
It seems as though Hefferon was bitter that his first show was cancelled and rendered obscure, and because of that later factoid nobody would notice when he did it again with this show, and with such apathy to the original ReBoot.
Now look, I hate fans of any show too, they act holier than though, even attacking people in the name of a dead guy and forever tainting another show because shipping, but this just feels spiteful to the core, there's no other way around it.
So I guess the moral of the story is never let a CEO do a creator's job, or something like that, I dunno.
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