Im not a fan of the original, I recall having seen some of it and liking Megabyte but until we saw old characters in this show I did not even recall the premise of clearing games.
Every aspect of this show screams "bottom of the barrel even on Disney Channel". I can't even give it a pass of "its for kids" because it looks like what I imagine a parody of those shows would look like. It also feels like a "syndicated show" meaning there are a lot of episodes that go nowhere/can be viewed in any order. one of the alleged befits of the netflix format was to be a new way of storytelling and yet here we see a way that is outdated even on regular tv. still its somewhat enjoyable if you are in the right frame of mind and are willing to be liberal with the skip button, once you give up one watching it "seriously".
Megabyte was my favorite part in this too but soon his lines started grating on me, it like he does not say anything. They just got him for one day and recorded bunch of generic lines like "i will get you next time gadget" and "i am overburdened". you get this feeling with other characters as well, like the antagonist.
Characters are there by mandate. I guess they were all on one team in a game before so that what brings them together but blue and red clash heads (for a very brief moment because that is usually what happens in other shows) like they have no preexisting dynamic. you have brains,ninja, brute and leader . I jokingly called the leader "nepotism" because their skills are rarely on display outside one off eps were their "prove" themselves. The antagonist stole some mega processor by episode 3(I think) and he still has not used it in any way, I guess he too is waiting for season finally.
Writing is shallow and it will probably turn out that the main bad guy is the leaders father and he was infected by a computer virus or something because both the pro and anti technology sides in the show are technologically illiterate.
What I wish was more utilized? The concept, go full emoji movie if you must, give them various gear for various situations. They bring in minecraft/clash of clans but that is it, the digital world looks bland and sterile. 0 imagination, like it had to be standardized for some cheap tie in game. Its probably due to budget reasons but still. I also wish we had a character native to digital world that stayed there. maybe have the genius on the good team try to impact the digital world the same way the antagonist does (at least few times), instead of going in and "analyzing" things form the inside. The team somehow always looks both overqualified and horribly unqualified.
Every aspect of this show screams "bottom of the barrel even on Disney Channel". I can't even give it a pass of "its for kids" because it looks like what I imagine a parody of those shows would look like. It also feels like a "syndicated show" meaning there are a lot of episodes that go nowhere/can be viewed in any order. one of the alleged befits of the netflix format was to be a new way of storytelling and yet here we see a way that is outdated even on regular tv. still its somewhat enjoyable if you are in the right frame of mind and are willing to be liberal with the skip button, once you give up one watching it "seriously".
Megabyte was my favorite part in this too but soon his lines started grating on me, it like he does not say anything. They just got him for one day and recorded bunch of generic lines like "i will get you next time gadget" and "i am overburdened". you get this feeling with other characters as well, like the antagonist.
Characters are there by mandate. I guess they were all on one team in a game before so that what brings them together but blue and red clash heads (for a very brief moment because that is usually what happens in other shows) like they have no preexisting dynamic. you have brains,ninja, brute and leader . I jokingly called the leader "nepotism" because their skills are rarely on display outside one off eps were their "prove" themselves. The antagonist stole some mega processor by episode 3(I think) and he still has not used it in any way, I guess he too is waiting for season finally.
Writing is shallow and it will probably turn out that the main bad guy is the leaders father and he was infected by a computer virus or something because both the pro and anti technology sides in the show are technologically illiterate.
What I wish was more utilized? The concept, go full emoji movie if you must, give them various gear for various situations. They bring in minecraft/clash of clans but that is it, the digital world looks bland and sterile. 0 imagination, like it had to be standardized for some cheap tie in game. Its probably due to budget reasons but still. I also wish we had a character native to digital world that stayed there. maybe have the genius on the good team try to impact the digital world the same way the antagonist does (at least few times), instead of going in and "analyzing" things form the inside. The team somehow always looks both overqualified and horribly unqualified.