Tuesday, July 24, 2018

CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST NOW 23-24; CELLS SOULS AND CIRCUITRY

Today is the final push before the season 1 finale. First we have a filler episode "Rock Bottom?" Yumi's Parents are leaving town for the long weekend, So Yumi asks if she can invite some friends over..."to study",but it's really a party she is asking, when her parents agree, the boys are excited...except Jeremie who can't seem to Localize Lyoko online.

Hey, I'M FROM IRELAND, SO I CAN RELATE ABOUT SHIT BOARD-BAND!

Odd says he has a surprise for the party a "real DJ" sorry, i mean DEEESZHAY! You'll get that joke next week when i launch Kevin and Perry Go large on the 1st of August!
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The "REAL DEESZHAY!" turns out to be a girl called Sam, Odd's future Girlfriend who is introduced as a computer thief posing as a DJ. When she and Odd get caught in the computer room, she hides and Odd gets implicated in the supposed Robbery by Jim. She then gets locked in the Computer Room! Our Spikey haired imbecile gets threatened with expulsion. Meanwhile XANA activates a tower in the mountain zone, His attack Du Jour is Compressed steam and Jim and Sam are  trapped in Kadic Academy.

Yumi arrives In Lyoko and must traverse a Nintendo Hard Platform. The steam has sank some of the Gym where Jim is working out and he is trapped in a mudslide! Sam is rescued by Ulrich and Odd and they go to the factory, Yumi is Devirtualised when the boys enter to ferry Aelita to deactivate the tower. One trip back in time, later and Odd asks Jeremy to use his programming skills to help Sam make Legit money from DEESZHAY-ING And we never see her again til Code Lyoko Evolution...
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OH NO! SAM'S GOT THE SAME FLU BIRDIE HAD IN STREET FIGHTER 1!
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The 24th episode Ghost Channel, however, marks the 1st time, XANA makes himself some hands to get them dirty!

The episode starts in Action-Filled Style, with Odd Showboating, he gets cocky and accidentally upsets, asking him why he's too afraid to get scanned, Who sets up the return to the past to 12 hours ago, During role call in Mrs Hertz class, only for Odd and Ulrich to be deemed Absent, However, somewhere else, Ulrich and Odd seem to be attending the class.

Oh good they can learn x=ay+b for the millionth time after all! In this ghost channel "Jeremie" doesn't communicate with Odd, with Ulrich thinking Jeremie is still upset with him. "Jeremie" corrects "Mrs Hertz" equation, however the boys don't bat an eyelid, Jeremie is a genius, after all

Yumi's also missing in the real world, in the "ghost channel" Yumi notices a Glitch that makes the English teacher repeats herself! For added Foreshadowing, the English teacher was quoting Shakespeare's "All's the World's a Stage!"

In Lyoko, Aelita feels Pulsations that leads her to the Mountain zone. Xana has activated a tower but she doesn't know where! The Villainous Program has planned 2 back to back attacks and once more the second was the real attack, this time, Yumi is not just captured but the boys are captured to. In the Principal's Office, Jeremie is called to be asked where his friends are. Aelita reveals she can subvert machines in the same way Xana does to help Jeremie escape and how does she do this

By exploding a radiator and nearly killing Mr Delmas and Jim!
YOUR INNOCENT DAMSEL WAIFU, EVERYBODY!

In the factory, Aelita uncovers a Radio Transmission that she encrypts showing as a pocket dimension that shows his friends in school with programs resembling students and teachers! XANA Couldn't have picked a better place to carry out the study of his young foes!

Aelita takes Control of the Scanners and Virtualises Jeremie into the Ghost channel, but he is on his own, The fake Jeremie tells Fake Jim to attack. Yumi, who has being noticing the glitches finally breaks down when she sees the programs of her parents are too buggy to be the real thing, given that Yumi is not a boarder at the school, Xana only created working programs for those in school! Jeremie gets to the dorms where he is attacked by a zombie version of Jim (One season before the zombie episode actually happens!) Even Zombie Herve and Zombie Nicholas get in on the hunt. Jeremie arrives just as Fake Jeremie...XANA!, Tries to delete the heroes in the fake scanners! When Xana says Jeremie is the fake because he would never scan himself, The others disagree, saying The real Jeremie would, if his friends where in danger! This causes XANA to come undone because his data on  Jeremie was undermined
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"NOOOOOOOOOOO!
NOOOOOOOOOTTTTT LOGIIIIIICALLLLLLLL!
With XANA revealed he has no qualms in just teleporting the zombies and binding Jeremie in wires (reusing the scene from the origin episodes!) to ready an energy blast. Until Aelita finds a Guardian on the Ice zone and uses her Creativity to break The Guardian and destroy the Ghost Channel causing Jeremie to violently be expelled out of the scanners and the rest of the heroes to return to Lyoko. As Odd praises Jeremie for his bravery, 20 Bloks appears and this episode ends with a pitched battle!

Next time, We Review episode 25, The season 1 finale as we Decipher Code:EARTH! When we return in a fortnight when we RETURN TO THE PAST, NOW!

1 comment:

  1. Been a while since I've seen Code Lyoko, but Ghost Channel looks like an impressive episode. I always like the concept of characters trapped in a virtual/simulated world trying to break free. Plus, that picture suggests there's a nice bit of nightmare fuel to add to the tension.

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