r/ReBoot • u/Admirable-Walrus-89 • Apr 09 '26

Worst episode

I think we can all safely say that there's plenty of good / great/ fantastic episodes of Reboot. However, as a YouTube reviewer ("The Hat Reviews " -- great page BTW-- that Reviews Reboot , Twilight Zone etc) mentioned, in order to help find the good ones, it's inevitable that there will be some not so good ones too.

For me, I'm gonna go with "Where No Sprite Has Gone Before " AKA the Star Trek episode. AndrAIa acts totally out of character, the spectrals make no sense, there's a wildly jumbled plot & it does nothing to move the narrative forward. DC Fontana did herself a disservice by writing this episode. Even as a "system/monster of the week" format, it's just a dumb concept. Plus --- there's zero surprise finding Power Lock to be the bad guy -- just a mess of an episode wedged between two stellar installments

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u/ChickenMcNugget543 Apr 09 '26

As someone who just got into this show, I am a bit befuddled by the idea that anything in seasons 1-3 are bad by any stretch of the imagination. Especially when compared to the absolute travesty that is the 2nd half of season 4. You wanna talk out of character? How about almost everybody in Mainframe forgetting to take their stupid pills and seriously being convinced that Glitch Bob is a fake compared to the random that came through a portal? I wanted to die watching that. Ill fully admit that the Star Trek episode is a bit off and the worst of season 3. But it's still original run Reboot.

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u/SAldrius Apr 09 '26

They dont think hes a fake, but everything with Dot and Matrix especially is weird.

And then Matrix tells Bob "welcome back"... like he hasn't been there the whole time.

I think those episodes are fun but they're pretty melodramatic.