Tuesday, February 6, 2018

CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST NOW: EPISODES 13-14

I'm back with my retrospective of the French cult classic cartoon series, right before i turn all my energies towards Wrestlemania

Today's First Episode Just in Time (though the episode is referred to as By A Hair's Breadth, You'll get that joke in a Minute!) is a very action packed episode, for the reason that according to the Co-Creator Thomas Astruc, Originally the season's were going to be 13 episodes long, however after seeing that the majority of Cartoon Network's own Cartoons were 10 minutes with no storyline arc,


and the other 3rd party cartoon had a longer season and more storyline progression in it's season end, they decided to increase the season to 25 and make that episode, the episode Aelita comes to Earth that way if they get cancelled at least they did that much!

Once again Jeremie Belpois' Mission to realize (that is to say turn a program into a person) continues. The Program in question, Aelita an AI Capable of Deactivating Virus infected towers in the Virtual world of Lyoko. Jeremie Decides to attack the problem in a different way. Later on he Hurriedly rushes to the Others Ulrich Stern and his maybe/will be girlfriend Yumi Ishiyama are sparing whilst Odd Dela Robbia plays with his dog Kiwi, despite Dogs not being allowed here at the Boarding School, KADIC

Jeremie excitedly reveals his discovery
                         -Ulrich: you Realized a test-tube?
                         -Jeremie: I realized what's in the test-tube, you Airhead!

Sure enough, inside is a small pink hair, the same shade of hair that Aelita wears. though looking at much Jeremie is blushing he never specified WHERE the hair came from!
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EEW!
Deciding to realize Aelita tonight, the group head for lunch, Once again Secondary Villain, Sissi Delmas, Ulrich's Stalker with a Crush and Asian Antagonizer, blackmails the group about harbouring Kiwi in her father's school, so Ulrich can go out with her. Yumi gets so mad the glass in her gripped hand breaks, giving her a cut, and making Sissi's pants be darkened that she doesn't annoy the group for a whole episode!

Odd goes to feed Kiwi who has being howling nonstop. then the glass in the dorm room Shatters. XANA, The Primary Villain, A Human -Despising Terrorist Computer Program From Lyoko Is Using the Electrical Sockets to Create Sonar Waves Powerful enough for Dogs to hear and to break Buildings.
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Jeremie Activates The Realization Problem, but there is a problem, On top of it not working, Removing one hair has being the equivalent of not carrying the 1 in a formula, in other words, Aelita's program is now bugged,  and if she deactivates a tower. her data will be erased. Not help by the fact Odd has left his untrained, and unhousebroken dog with Jeremie, Who despite turning the screen Aelita catches a peek at Jeremie fighting Kiwi over a pair of Stolen Boxer Shorts.
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"A PEEK? CAN'T I HAVE ONE LITTLE PEEK? A FUCKING PEEK?
Kiwi is returned, but then Xana attacks, Splitting the school in two and Trapping Odd, Kiwi and The Junior Reporters in the Ruins.

With no choice, Jeremie has to Virtualize Ulrich and Yumi to the Forest Zone, where the Frustration of everything has made the team get ambushed, by all things, the Fecking Kankrelauts
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THESE! THE COMIC RELIEF MINIONS!
With some krabbes joining the party. Bunkered in a root system, Aelita, when the other's backs are turned, make a run for it and deactivates the tower. Despite Jeremie activating the Return to the past program, it can never bring back anyone who died or had there Data erased by Xana. Until Yumi brings up a point-if Aelita's hair contains her DNA, Then surely the Genome can be processed as a computer code and the girl cloned as a back-up program? Jeremie confirms and Aelita is back!
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Always back up your files, kids!

Episode 14-the trap has alot going against it, namely that 5 minutes is a montage of the classroom scenes from all 13 previous episodes. I get it animation is a costly enterprise so using cells and scenes over again is a common practice, I reuse jokes on my blogs too, so i can give out too much...this feels lazy in comparison! 

7 minutes in and the plot arrives, namely XANA taking control of the factory to set a trap. After Finishing a test in record time, Jeremie remembers it's being a year to the day he activated the Super Calculator, So when the others finish, he plans to tell them he wants to hold a "birthday" for Aelita. Once Again Sissi just can't stay away, First Jeremie and odd arrive since Ulrich and Yumi have Martial arts classes. when they arrive they find the elavotor not functioning so they must travese the machinery floor and the boiler room.

The Machinery and the assembly line is possessed and attacks the boys. The second half of the gang, and an unwelcome Sissi enter the elavotor and it crashes with speed to the basement floor, braking Ulrich's arm

With no-one coming, it's finally happened, Aelita has stopped being a Load!, and gets HERSELF! to the infected tower in the Desert zone,  though it doesn't help that the Krabbes, XANA'S Secondary troops are on patrol, however despite not being able takes or be destroyed forever, or armed, or any offensive powers, she does lure the krabbe to a Pillar Maze and uses her Creativity to dissolve a Pillar Maze underfoot, er...underclaw, scoring the little elf girl her 1st kill!

Surviving the Machinery Floor, Jeremie and Odd must run for their lives to avoid steam and shrapnel, a piece of which bursts a pipe, filling the Elevator shaft with water. Yumi climbs up, despite a fear of heights. Sissi patches up Ulrich with a sling...somehow! no clothing was removed and neither where wearing anything white as the bandage! Sissi complains that she does this because she wants attention and even though she may never get over Yumi with him, she wants Ulrich to at least be nice to her, he promises he will if they survive drowning.

Odd and Yumi finally make it to Lyoko, but they soon die! Aelita deactivates the tower and the return brings them to Jemremies room including Ulrich and his arm healed. they hold a birthday party for for Aelita, with Sissi and her henchbullies eavesdropping, until Ulrich turns and winks at Sissi, as Nicolas and Herve laugh at "the birthday party for a computer" (couldn't they hear Aelita?) Sissi obligated by a promise she doesn't remember tells Herve and Nicolas off! ("You know nothing of trends! in fact i expect a cake from you both tomorrow...for my makeup table's birthday! ")

Next time the danger only increase as the Season one finale comes closer! we are logging off! but soon we have Episode 15-16, when we RETURN TO THE PAST!

NOW!  

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