The Characters
None of the original, memorable characters, except for one, are in the reboot. The new show replaces them with what appears to be one-dimensional stereotypes, including the jock, the geek, the leader, the preppy girl, the serious government agent, and the angry and hypocritical hacker who is upset with the world. And they’re all live-action humans who know computer programs are sentient. Part of the charm of the original show is that the characters didn’t even know what humans were. That’s why everyone in the show called beings who lived outside of Mainframe and the Internet ‘Users’ and not humans. Likewise, the Users had no idea characters such as Bob and Megabyte existed, let alone the fact that they had self-determination.
The only character who returns from the original show (so far) is Megabyte, and he looks as though he’s been reduced to an errand boy. No longer the charismatic, ambitious, and self-proclaimed erudite virus, the trailer presents him as just subservient, generic baddie general #5 who is always evil and all business. In the original show, he was evil, but he was fleshed out; he had a sense of humor and knew how to have fun. Moreover, his new design is so radically different I would not have recognized him had he not been called by name. Assuming the trailer is representative of the final product, this version of Megabyte is not the big bad fans grew to love to hate/hate to love.