ReBoot (TV Series) Racing the Clock (1994) User Reviews

"So many moods, so little time..."

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 8/10 · 25 August 2015]

This episode, which is kind of another one that's still establishing the whole way-out world of the show, sees nefarious Megabyte attempting to destroy his viral polar opposite Hexadecimal by using little Enzo's fledgling delivery service to send her a powerful bomb disguised as a mask. When Bob finds out where the package is heading, he opts to go in the young sprite's place. When he arrives in the foreboding desolate city of "Lost Angles" and immediately gets dragged into her amphitheatre- like lair, thanks to the spying of her weird little silent partner in crime "Scuzzy" she knows all about the trap and sends it right back in Megabyte's direction attached to Bob's face. He does manage to get it off but then as if right on cue a game-cube(oh!) descends from the digital heavens which is revealed to be a racing type game in which the first lap is with cars and the second and third is with hovercraft. The bomb becomes a part of unknowing Bob's racing car while Dot and Enzo try to warn him of the imminent destruction before it's too late. But for once they neither win nor lose as the game itself is actually destroyed in a pretty spectacular effect where it is sucked into a kind of vortex from the inside out. And then things end on a wacky note where Megabyte has tried to send another explosive to Hexadecimal without even bothering to try to disguise it the second time around, and his lovably idiotic servants "Hack" and "Slash" bring it back where it promptly blows the lid off his Tor! Probably the most notable thing about this episode is that it's the first appearance of Hexadecimal who was about the only main character not to be introduced in the pilot. And while she'll be put to much better use in her following appearance, she's good here, they introduce her in a really cool and sinister way where you only see her shadowed figure trying on different masks and muttering to herself in her haggish yet oddly alluring malevolent voice! It quickly establishes her trademark of wildly veering into insanity when she makes the split decision to send Scuzzy hurtling into the flames and then changes her mind just as quickly. As far as the animation of her movement goes she's still a bit of a work in progress, but her personality is really spot-on right from the very start I think. Again, even though as of yet it's still pulling itself together, I'm still surprised at how much these earliest of episodes get right, apart from a few mildly annoying elements like some cartoony sound effects, its real charm was always there. More episodes later - bring it on!