Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Code Lyoko: Episodes 7-8: Artificial Stupidity

This week's theme given it's about Clones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d-aWMQuoS4
You'll Recall last episode, Yumi fell into the Digital Sea and Jeremie used an one-shot Realization Program Odd created by accident to return her at the end of the episode,
Right?...
 Well to pick up where we left off, in this episode, "Image Problem", XANA fakes an attack so Aelita is in the tower when she hears Yumi being "kidnapped. Sensing something is wrong, Jeremie realizes Yumi, whom he finds in the the Scanner unconscious. The boys brings Yumi to the infirmary, where alone with the Nurse, Yumi attacks her.



Something is up with Yumi, she is not eating, wants to go to the factory, even tolerates, and encourages Sissi. She even attacks Mr Delmas when he punishes Yumi for attacking the nurse. When the Principal says she is being reported to her parents, Yumi attacks him, repeatedly shouting " Not My Parents! " as the Mark of Xana glows on her forehead, that's no Yumi, it's a clone of Yumi.
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On Lyoko's Ice Zone, Aelita spots a Guardian.
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 Don't feel too bad if you don't remember this monster, its a big orange ball, that serves as a jail.
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Jeremie is further convinced something is wrong when "Yumi" flirts with him, causing dissension with the boys, leaving the dorm, they don't notice Yumi didn't leave, so when they return, the equipment is destroyed. Suspecting Yumi, they and the clone head towards the factory, where Yumi-Clone uses Unnatural Strength to destroy the scanner room with her bare hands. On Lyoko Aelita uses her Creativity to create a clone of Yumi. Telling Ulrich to stab her offscreen to return her to the real world, to face her doppelganger. Aelita does her thing and the return to the past, at least it proves that Realization is possible and so this Episode ends with Yumi flirting with Jeremie as a joke.
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Episode 8, End Of Take, is a filler episode homage to Alien, Where a Ripley Scott stand in wants to film in the factory, So Ulrich (with help from Sissi, who wants to break Hollywood) gets a go-for job to protect the factory. Xana possesses the Animorphic Alien, and a Xenomorph would fit in on Code Lyoko, his forehead is normal sized compared to Yumi's!
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There, I made a Big Forehead joke about Code lyoko, can we move on now?



The only thing of merit in this episode... Yumi and Ulrich are killed by Xana!
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On Lyoko, Xana clones a red tower and Aelita must choose the right one...which she doesn't, leading to the alien to choke them to death...until Xana itself boots the return to the past. After the return trip Ulrich lies about the factory being used in a sci fi film before to Not-Ripley who promptly leaves!



Clearly 8 episodes in and we have more questions than answers.
Join me next time when Jeremie's work takes a dark turn towards obsession in Episode 10 in Part 6-Computer Dating, with Actual Computers!

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