2x05: Painted Windows
Three workers having a conversation before OMG HEX APPEARS. YAY.
Meanwhile Dot exercising, before somebody starts DRAWING A SUN ON THE SKY. Hah. Turns out Hex has broken into the archives and stolen a PAINT PROGRAM! The guards have been kidnapped and are stuck to...paintings...and she is now PAINTING MAINFRAME. This is awesome XD.
Mainframe stars changing colours and getting flooded by paint! She puts the workers INTO her paintings, turning them into The Scream, the Mona Lisa, etc, then makes Megabyte's Lair say "Hexadecimal" and look like Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Hex is the best. She STRETCHES MB'S FACE, THEN ZIPS HIS MOUTH AND STARTS COLOURING HIM, MAKING HIM LOOK LIKE A JESTER. I LOVE THIS.
According to Fawng he can break the link with the archive, but Bob needs to execute an undo command first. Just as he says this, his face is scrubbed out by the "erase" tool and replaced with...an apple. Hex, you...yes. YES. Now Fawng really is the "keeper of the core" oh ho ho ho
Hex cuts off Bob's lines of communication to Dot, then cuts out their travel options. Heh, I see Picasso-style melting clocks.
Enzo and Bob split up.
Mike TV is...being a pretentious art critic. I see pop art with Dot. Awesome. Bob goes and recuits Mike for his plan. Hex's painting has caused weird gateways in Mainframe that lead to various different places. Suddenly, Frisket is a lot smaller than he was a second ago, clearly Hex played with the crop tool. >_>
Dot arrives at the Archive Security System and it has been destroyed. Enzo follows and they check it out, as Bob/Mike arrive at Hex's. All the Nulls near Hex's lair have Bob's face, heh. It's Hex's "blue period" according to Mike.
In the archives, Enzo says to Dot that they can't break the link until they get the signal from Dot, then stupidly falls INTO the archives, and gets trapped inside vidwindows.
Bob and Mike come across Scuzzy, Hex's cat thing, which is guarding her lair. They initially laugh, but it is now f***ing huge. As they run away, they split up but Scuzzy simply splits into two and continues to chase them.
Meanwhile Enzo finds out he can control the windows he is stuck in and uses them as steps for Dot.
Bob and Mike trip and fall into each other, but Hex comes and says "the Guardian is mine." Bob says he is there to interview her.
Hex teleports them inside while Dot and Enzo keep looking.
Apparently Bob's plan involves neither of them surviving.
Mike begins the interview. "We bring you this system-wide exclusive straight from the artist's studio-"
"LAIR!"
"what?"
"the artist's LAIR!"
"oh. right."
Turns out Bob isn't really there, and it's actually one of the fake, cardboard bobs that Hex had produced earlier.
She gets mad and attacks Mike, while Bob uses the distraction and undoes all. Hex approaches him but he quickly crops her face and moves it to a different screen, holy s*** Bob, dick move.
Apparently the mask is the only thing that keeps Hexadecimal in check! Without it she will be destroyed.
Inside the archives, Dot manages to destroy the program but that means Hex will explode and destroy mainframe or something. Bob quickly brings Glitch back, and uses it to pull the "face" file from the screen and puts it back on Hex.
Everyone is happy ever after etc but Hex is...distraught it seems. She didn't even talk after she got her face back. Bob left Mike with her, and the show closes on Hex's menacing face before fading to black everywhere except her eyes, which are now blank and green. Creepy.
Rating: 9.5/10
Not only is Hexadecimal the best character in this show hands down, the concept was f***ing genius and it was executed brilliantly as well.
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