Wednesday, August 29, 2018

CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST NOW! 28-29: HELLO MY NAME IS HUMAN

Since Aelita is no longer a program, this song is now the theme for this series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-gja10qkw

Season 2 started last week with a twist-Aelita, The Computer Program Made Flesh, Suffered Visions of a past she did not know of, One that ties her, Kadic, The Factory, and a mysterious house in the woods called the Hermitage.

To That End, episode 28, Unchartered Terrority attempts to answer some questions, while at the same time, not reveal everything til much later.

Our Episode starts with an Elf chased by wolves. Lovely not only are we watching Code Lyoko, but another masterpiece overlooked By Cartoon Network,
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No, it's an extension of the visions Aelita has being having, and they all end in the same way, the elf hiding in the hollow of a tree before wolves get him.

That Morning, Jeremie tells the Boys he researched the Heremitage and found that it once belonged to a former Kadic Science teacher called Franz Hopper, More surprisingly, that info was protected by an encryption by the Government!

Sissi, Being a bitch, pranks Aelita into going into the boys shower, why? Because Aelita's traumatic night terrors ruined her beauty sleep! In fact, Aelita has no coping mechanism for people being mean to her, so runs away to the factory, something Sissi proudly exclaims in class.

The Boys Check out the Hermitage, In the Computer Room amidst the books of Physics and Computing, Jeremie finds something out of place: A book on Carthage and the Punic Wars! It's covered in notes and calculations so Jeremie pockets it.

On the Forest Zone Aelita has returned to Lyoko, the others come to convince her back, but something strange happens. A mysterious eye comes and takes her away. Jeremie scans Lyoko her Aelita's signature and it brings up a password box with an ominous Hint: WELCOME TO CARTHAGE!

Using the book he found he figures out to hit XANA where he lives, he must conquer Carthage, so he types in the name of the man who did : SCIPIO! This recalls the Eye to collect our Heroes
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Located inside Lyoko's sun, Carthage is a subterranean world of ever changing walls and pillars. It's XANA'S Home sector...and it is designed to Kill You!
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Non Xana Creatures can only stay in Carthage for 10 minutes, Walls that move to crush you,  floor tiles that rise to ceilings or fall to pits, Nightmarish humanoids called Kreepers that ambush you in sharp turns.
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Back in the day, a huge fan theory was these were humans destroyed and there data moulded into xana's image, meaning Aelita was not an outside Incident!
But it's not the only nightmare on Lyoko, Enter the Terror that is the Scyphozoa!
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Sure Enough this creature wraps Aelita in it's tentacles and to suck out her Memories and when it's done it just tosses her like garbage. it also doesn't help that the thing is indestructible. When the hentai monster leaves, so does the team. Aelita after nearly dying becomes more assertive to Sissi!

Exploration was a chance to explore more of Carthage, but it's a filler episode about Yumi staying up all night and being grounded. Jeremie reveals that exposure to Carthage alone has filled the server with new data, some he may use to destroy XANA, But since the 5th zone is a living trap, Aelita is stuck with the Scyphozoa again! The only pay-off is that we learn Yumi has a brother call Horoko and a new monster, The Mantas, Xana's elite Guard
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Nothing bio-mechanical or Nightmarish about these, the just look like mantas. that make Eagle sounds for some reason!
Yumi is able get her parents off her back, by telling her she is in love! ERRR....HOW IS A TEENAGER TELLING HER OVERPROCTIVE PARENTS THAT SUPPOSED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?...but it does, because SHUT UP!

The Mystery Continues as Slowly but surely the revelation will be set upon us,
When we ...
RETURN TO THE PAST!
NOW!



Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Code LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST NOW: EPISODES 26&27: TEST RUN

Welcome 2 Season 2 of my retrospective of the Cult French Cartoon, Code Lyoko.

To recap, Jeremie, a genius living at a boarding school, goes into an abandoned factory for machine parts, where he uncovers a machine that will change his life forever!

This Machine is a Super-Calculator, the powersource to a virtual world called Lyoko. Inside this world servers, referred to as Towers, An A.I. Called Aelita springs to life. it also brings to live X.A.N.A., Basically a human-hating Terrorist! Xana can subvert programs and machines, but need to activate a tower on lyoko to do so. That is where Aelita comes in she is an anti-virus that can deactivate Xana's Red Towers. Aelita can't fight though, it is a good thing that Jeremie's room-mates and a complete random girl stuck there noses in, and got virtualized on Lyoko. Several Adventures and Jeremie finally did what he set out to do! Realize Aelita into a Real Girl. It can only be better from hereout!

Episode 26-False Start...
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....begins with Aelita's first day at Kadic, Naturally the former Program is nervous. and learning History for the 1st time and saying this earns her an awkward silence!
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"I FIND HISTORY INTERESTING, WELL EXCEPT ALL THE WARS. YOU HUMAN'S FIGHT ALL THE TIME! YOU ARE EVEN FIGHTING JUST NOW!"
Heading to The Factory, where Jim is staying, Long Story short, Jim had being feeling deja vu from all of the time skips Jeremie performs to cover up/prevent the events of the xana attacks. So he had being suspicious of our heroes, to the point he chased Jeremie so hard he broke his ankle and got Fired. Jim (who he insists to be called Jimbo) has no place to stay so he is now guarding the factory. All those present to the Arrival Gather in the Power Room on Friday. Aelita has being getting edgy about Jeremie Turning off the SuperCalculator for good, and when he does, Aelita Faints!
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It takes hours for Aelita to recover, just as soon as Lyoko reboots. Jeremie Puts Aelita in a scanner and finds something terrible!

Remember Aelita was downloaded from a tower that was being destroyed by a laser from Xana's monsters? well this laser inadvertingly downloaded a base code virus into Aelita. in short, cannot fully leave Lyoko and if Lyoko is destroyed, she dies! It's nightfall when Aelita comes to so Jeremie offers to take her to Yumi's where she has being staying! This leads to what he have being waiting for, and we are so happy season 2 did it in it's first episode: Aelita and Jeremie, on a date!
  False Start - First photo
False Start - Aelita kiss Jeremie

The next day, Xana in a sense of Irony, uses the scanners to realize the Kankerlauts into the 2D real World!
False Start - Kankrelat in Scanner

Aelita and Odd go to Lyoko, despite Jeremie's protests! Aelita points out Xana could easily send monsters bigger and more dangerous than the comic relief villains. On Earth Yumi Ulrich and Jim go all Shaun of the Dead on the kankerlauts with Jim armed with a NAIL GUN Laser Tool! seriously censors what the hell, he is killing robots!
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Jim is no slouch to fighting, he did as he mentioned in the origin episode, a tour of Sierra Leone in the Canadian Army. however he runs out energy and the kankerlauts swarm him. but before Jim bites the big one! Aelita deactivates the tower and brings everyone back to the day of the arrival...with Aelita On Lyoko! Turns out, Aelita's data is full of Xana's base coding, meaning anything from Lyoko is technically property of XANA! And can't fully leave the world without coming back. Aelita can come to Earth for an Hour tops, But Jeremie is upset. with history rewritten, It means Jim was never fired, but is on the heroes case and bought Mr Delmas with him, until they lie about saying to Mr Delmas they were going to prank Sissi's gang and would have being late if it wasn't for "Jimbo!"
Jim still feeling Deja vu, thanks the warriors for a promise he can't remember, and rubs a bullet wound that longer exists!
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Episode 27 opens with a new intro and the 3d gets an upgrade. Speaking of Upgrades, The Warriors now get Over-Vehicles.
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Odd gets a HoverBoard called an overboard,
Ulrich gets a a Tron-esque motorcycle called an OverBike

And Yumi get an OverWing...that looks like A futurama Slowmobile!

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XANA has also made addictions to it's ranks, A Creature That Odd names Tarantula, And Jeremie scans as stronger than anything they fought before!
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Tarantula is voiced, with this nasally whine like all it knows is pain, his forelegs are laser turrets that he can rapid fire by standing or crouching on his hinds. also the Mark of Xana is no longer his weakpoint but painted on his strongest armour. It wipes the floor with our heroes.

But today is not a time to dwell on defeat, but to celebrate, time has elapsed since the last episode, the summer holidays! and in that time Jeremie has being busy not only creating the vechiles, but making a super scanner and an anti-virus to rewrite the code that binds Aelita to Lyoko, in otherwords, Aelita can live as a human being, she is enrolled as a border, sadly with Sissi as her room-mate!

The 1st day of term and Mrs Hertz brings Year 8 (the boys, and Aelita's class) and year 9 (Yumi's class) to a nature walk. we are introduced to a new character, William, Fecking Dunbar
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[SEXYBACK INTENSIFIES!]
A new student who got kicked out of his old school for grafittizing "love letters" to a girl, he tells Yumi this story saying "love gets me insane". Ulrich is jealous and spies on them the whole time, saying that he is just seconds away from William, And I Quote, and this was put in a kid's show, and translated into English without anyone passing through, that William is just seconds away "FROM COMPLETELY SNOWING HER!"
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I KNOW RIGHT?

Jeremie has forgot his computer and left Aelita all alone in the woods, who has flashbacks of being chased by wolves, that leads her to an abandoned house called the Hermitage. Inside Xana's spectre lurks and captures it's prey. Inside this house Aelita has visions of a man in a labcoat playing a piano. When the others find her, the trap has being set and Yumi and Ulrich are trapped in a Sauna that's slowly getting hotter! Aelita has another vision, of her being lead down a secret passage that leads to the sewer that connects to the school and the factory, by the man in the labcoat!

On the ice zone, Odd and Aelita figure out that they can't defeat the Tarantulas head on, so they instead distract them to get Aelita to the tower. After the Return to the past, the others discuss the connection between Lyoko, Aelita and the Hermitage! And William has fallen Yumi, in what will be the slow burn to the fantastic Season 3!
And to add to the mystery, the season 2 outro shows a file with photos of a "Waldo Schaffer" the man in the labcoat, photographed in front of the power plant on school grounds, as a science teacher in Kadic, in front of the hermitage with a pregnant woman ,with the year 1994 writing on the back on passport photos!

RUH ROH, RHAGGY! LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE!
The first clues and uncovered next time on episodes 28 and 29: HELLO, MY NAME IS HUMAN!

WHEN WE RETURN TO THE PAST!
NOW!

 



Wednesday, August 8, 2018

CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST NOW: EPISODE 25-SEASON 1 FINALE: CODE: EARTH

So it has come down to this!
Our download is now at 25% with the 25th episode: Aelita's arrival to Earth!

It's late at night and Before heading to bed, Jeremie launches "Program Alpha" before calling Yumi at home. She tell's him she will talk to her parents as Jeremie dreams of the events of episode 15.

Yumi talks to her parents about letting Aelita stay at her house, until she gets board at Kadic Academy, Meanwhile Odd is at Kadic in Mr Delmas' Office with School Papers (Falsified by Jeremie) to allow a refugee to pose as Odd's cousin (REMEMBER THIS FOR SERIES 3 AND 4, IT WILL BECOME A PLOT POINT!) to enroll in school. Odd and Ulrich bump into Jim, who's paranoia has reached peak.

Jeremie's "Program Alpha is a sucess, but has to be installed in the factory's system, because 2003, and wireless wasn't a thing yet!

JCaught by Jim, he turns to see Mr Delmas who gives the groundskeeper/PE Teacher one last warning to give the amatuer detective work a rest. Aelita is stuck in the Forest Zone, The tower used to passage between zones heavily guarded. Heeding the call, all four head to the factory, not knowing Jim is tailing them

All 3 Lyoko Warriors areVirtualised and Jeremie launches his CD Rom Containing "Program Alpha", ....EXCEPT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52X2SHXY6-4
With the wrong Disc, Jeremie returns to the dorm, where Jim is waiting her him. Jim gives Jeremie chase, causing Jeremie to fall and twist his ankle! This leads Mr Delmas to fire Jim, But Jim is Repantant and Jeremie uses the caretaker to get him back to the factory. In Lyoko XANA refuses to let Aelita leave even it it means destroying one of it's own towers.

Telling Jim Everything as her piggybacks Jeremie, Jeremie returns to the factory as The Warriors get picked off one by one. Aelita is Realized Just as the Megatank Blasts the Tower and erases all inside! BUT!
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WOULD IT BE TERRIBLE IF XANA AND AELITA WERE ONE AND THE SAME? AND BRINGING HER HERE WOULD DOOM US ALL IN SEASON 2?

Code Lyoko Season 1 despite having it's fair share of filler and Bad Science, holds up after 15 years! both 2d and 3d are still serviceable, though from season 2 and beyond, the 3d gets upgraded!

Odd gets the least character Development, His Avatar Form is that of a Purple Cat Boy, which Jeremie points out was formed by the Super Calculator scanning his psyche. This probably represents his affinity with animals and natural agility, This may also represent his lack of an upper limit when comes to love and Girlfriends, He is also Pretty Dumb, which is why the Super Calculator gave him The ability to see the future. Though he makes up for it by being Artistically Gifted.

Aelita may have less development, but that's probably due to giving her an air of mystery to her, But has shown courage beyond being a constant damsel in distress, Though Odd nicknames her Princess because of this!

Ulrich, Beyond being the Chew toy between Sissi and Yumi, has a lot of symbolism in his character. Let's start with his surname: STERN! His relationship with his parents is just that, he is given a tutor during the holidays, and his father looked disappointed when he flops at the soccer game. This upbringing and love for both Yumi and Martial Arts is probably why his Avatar is a samurai and his Triplicate powers stem from wanting to please everyone!

Yumi's Entire family up sticks from Japan to France all due to Her father's job. starting school in a strange country and refusing to tow the line to a Jealous Racist Queen Bee, is probably why she takes up Martial Arts! To that end Her Homesickness, Angst, and Confused Romantic Feelings has made her form a Geisha. Her lack of Control of her family life is probably why Lyoko gave her Telekinesis. She does take control in Jeremie's place but when she fails she beats herself up over it, like getting herself captured so XANA could plant a fake Yumi!

Jeremie is given the most character development, despite, or even because of, the fact he is not an active member of the team. Jeremie was a shy sheltered boy, who after gaining friends,would save them by facing his fears last episode, He's in love with Aelita, though it starts as a friendship between intellectuals, this love borders into obsession, as he as pushed his health to the point of starvation and Insomnia to work on Realization. we saw how far it went in Girl of His Dreams, when he put a Complete Stranger in Harm's Way!

NEXT TIME! SEASON 2!
NEW MISSIONS!
NEW POWERS!
NEW MONSTERS!
AND A TWIST THAT NOONE SAW COMING!
WHEN WE RETURN TO THE PAST!
NOW!

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

EPISODE 148: EAMONN REVIEWS KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE!

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