TICKET TO HEAVEN: Code Lyoko: Return to the past, Now!: Episodes 88-90: Will We Make It Through?

 So the Premise of Cousins, Once Removed is the Daniel Cooler Daniel Meme, But in a twist, This Patrick character, despite looking like Ulrich dressed as James Dean, and having his voice actor, is actually Jeremy's Cousin! Jeremy is the one who needs to learn a lesson on forgiveness and asking for help....

.... A lesson he wouldn't have the need to be driven home, if Patrick and Sissi didn't break into Jeremy's Room to teach him a lesson by hacking his programs with Herve's help, Leaving The Skidbaldnir weak to attack, while Xana Possesses Sissi and Herve, While Aelita is attacked by a squid with a drill-bit for a thorax, called Kalamar in it's one and only appearance

Jeremy switches off the electricity at the mains to stop XANA/HERVE hacking the files, and to save his cousin's life, He tells Aelita to Launch s return to the past, ending the episode, quite literally, having A do-over...until we learn Patrick was never going to Enroll here, So Patrick got Chuck Cunninghamed 

But that was a our last Filler Episode, with 6 shows left, the kid gloves are off!

Episode 89, Music To Soothe the Savage Beast is the conclusion to Aelita's Character Arc, Her Rediscovered Musical Talent that had led her winning a competition to be an opening DJ to a band we previously met, But she is suffering from stage Fright, while Odd continues to be the classroom Casanova, by trying to blag an extra ticket for background character of the week. But the  pressure is getting too much, not helped by Jeremy working through the night, So an upset Aelita leaves the ticket for him. Odd gives Odd a ticket on the condition she is Ulrich's Date.

It's the night if the concert and Odd's Dirty Dealing Bites him when Sissi and the Background character reject him, Yumi lies to a nervous Aelita that Jeremy is here, but he isn't. Xana attacks and because Jeremy stayed at Kadic Academy to detect it, he can warn the others, but it's too late, Xana possesses a Road Manager to kidnap Aelita as Chris' band start without her, as an Extended remix of the shows intro plays out as Ulrich deals with a possessed Millie and Tamiya, as the Possessed Roadie, Sophie brings an unconscious Aelita to the factory to virtualize on Lyoko's Mountain Zone, Surrounded by Monsters and William, as Yumi and Odd Join the fray, Jeremy tying up XANA/SOPHIE after she is knocked from behind. But XANA/SOPHIE frees herself and knocks out Jeremy, tampering with all his best laid plans. William kills Yumi's avatar, Just as Her Fans Finish him off!

An Errant Lightning Bolt by XANA/TAMIYA Blasts over the hall, which the band takes in stride, playing an extended version of the show's Outro as the fight reaches its dramatic end. It also has lyrics!

ContentID no longer allows me to link music anymore so instead check this episode out! Jeremy launches a return to the past and attends the concert, backstage the couple forgiving each other for their past actions, as Aelita takes to the stage as her friends cheer her on!

Music To Soothe the Savage Beast is A Terrific Episode, It has Character Development, Humour, Action, Fanservice (In Music and A new DJ Costume For Aelita) and the best part? Realizing that Aelita's arc was put on the Backburner for a long time, They give us a lot with it never feeling Rushed!

And it get better in the Last Episode we cover Today, Wrong Exposure.

Desperate on a leg up on XANA, Jeremy and Aelita Explore Her former home, the Heritage. Sifting through boxes, they find a photograph of a young Aelita with her father, Franz Hopper, in what looks like Kadic Academy's Science Room, on the blackboard are 2 equations that maybe Useful.

Odd in his quest to woo the Background character of the week, Accidentally sends the photo to Sissi, who the principal's daughter looks at it and vaguely Remembers Franz. 

Sissi shows a physical Copy to her father and he cannot believe Aelita is somehow related to one of his former employees, One that Disappeared from his house so abruptly in 1992, remembering that the Story he was told is the Aelita is her cousin, all the heroes are brought in to answer tough questions

However Jeremy uses the logic that the girl in the photo is one taken timestamped 1992, who appears to be 9 years old, meaning this girl would be 22 years old, not 13. (of course we know that Aelita was sealed in Lyoko and In Suspensed Animation, which slowed her aging by a 3rd, making her 12 by the First season and 13 by staying a year in reality.) However Delmas is not convinced and confines the heroes in the library as he does a simple search of his records as Xana attacks.

Possessing Mr Delmas to separate Aelita from the others, knocking her out to virtualize her so he can kill her, Odd Stays behind to deal with XANA/DELMAS as Yumi and Ulrich are sent to the forest zone where Xana has used the Psycozoa To implant Suicidal Thoughts into Aelita! which can only be solved by Mercy killing her Avatar!

KID'S SHOW!

But it turns out the equations which Jeremy dismissed as a Universal Reset So readily as useless, Is Exactly what he need to get out of this jam, It works at a cost of weakening every thing touched by the shockwave, Friend or Foe alike. Ulrich Powers through, carrying  a weakened Aelita to deactivate the tower, as Jeremy returns to the past.

Afterwards Aelita Explains she remembers her real Surname, It's Schaffer: Franz is her father's Middle Name, His real name is Waldo Schaffer (as in the name of the file in the second season and beyond's outro!) Aelita explains he came to work as a science teacher to lie low, but as far as anyone Asks Aelita Stones is an Orphan, though she keeps the photograph as a reminder of better times.

Next Wednesday, we have the Penultimate Episode of Code Lyoko return to the past now! as we get closer to the Final Battle. As we Return, the 1st of 2 last times, To the Past....

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TICKET TO HEAVEN:CODE LYOKO RETURN TO THE PAST NOW!: EPISODES 86-87 GIVING ALL THAT WE GOT!

 We open in an Exciting Dog Fight in the Red Zone. Our heroes Minisubs are fighting and chasing after William's Minisub. Yes inexplicably, without any reason Or  explanation why, but William has a MiniSkid Submarine now. They could explain it away, but at this point the show was on its last legs, not helped by it being relegated to a website for the remainder of It's run.

The plot of this episode, it's 86th, Canine Conundrum, is that Our heroes are sick of Odd's Unruly Dog, Kiwi. So to teach Odd a Lesson, Kiwi is locked in the factory for 2 weeks, or til it learns how to behave. Just as XANA attacks Jeremy's Room and Possesses the Kiwi-2 robot from Season 1.

Jim is hosting Penchak Silat classes for the new term, this year Yumi's brother Hiroki and his best friend Johnny are joining and Sissi is rejoining. (She had revealed in season 2 she took Silat classes to impress Ulrich. And like the Harbingers of things to come that they are, here are the Junior Reporters. Sure enough the gym is the target for a replicating army of Kiwi-2s, who seriously bite Johnny and Millie. The only way they can escape to tell Jim Everything, Since Jeremy can just erase everyone's  memories with a Return to the past later, While Odd and Aelita deal with William and a Whole Zoo of Beasties, Yumi manages to escape as Ulrich causes a distraction. Jim answers Ulrich's phone meaning Jeremy will have to launch the return program, even if it makes XANA stronger. Yumi's arrives collapsed In the lift with 2 of the robots, who attack their original creator, as he falls he mistypes a command to reload Odd's laser arrows accidentally giving him a new power, an Explosive Death Punch as if Odd didn't already has New powers on the fly. With Odd out of Action, Aelita Creates a Clone which William captures and Throws into the Digital Sea while Jeremy is convinced his girlfriend is really dead. (See even the characters in Universe know it's false Drama!)

And so we ends with Kiwi not learning anything from his confinement as he fouls Odd's trousers.

Space ODDity continues with Kiwi as the plot device, as it's Room Inspection Week once again. And Yumi is saddled with the mutt, who in turn, saddles Hiroki, who in the men in black episode once killed Odd's Tamagotchi. His worry for his dog had put the already Nonchalant Odd off his game to a replika powered by that pesky Death Laser Satellite, so destroying the super computer on board will finally end that Avenue of attack in the future. They find that the Satellite is being used official as a space station in 10 days. But unofficially Xana is using it as a factory for Miniature Megatanks. Which I will now call minitanks.

In the Replika of Carthage, XANA Itself is trying to Wipe the Skid's Data. so like season 2, Ulrich must find the Key to deactivate the traps. On the space Station. Our Away team formulate a plan to destroy the Supercomputer but make it look accidental before the Crew arrive and claim Sabotage. so they find a waterpipe to burst, just as the Minitanks activate to attack, so Odd opens the Airlock to remove them!

 

Somehow not Dead, Odd and Yumi damage the Waterpipe. Sensing Defeat William leaves and as the Replika has no power source anymore, Jeremy can delete it, and so the Episode ends with Yumi's parents finding out about Kiwi....and fawning over the creature.

Yeah. It's a short One This week, like I Said, Anything beyond season 2 is new territory for me, so i don't know what is filler and what Story Progression, However next week, Tuesday we have 3 episodes since Cousins Once Removed Is A filler! we are Moving to close to 90 episodes and sadly to the end but we will enjoy ourselves when we....

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TICKET TO HEAVEN: CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST, NOW!: EPISODES 84-85: SAVE ALL THAT WE LOVE

 

To kick off our final traipse into this beloved series, Episode 84, Guided Missiles, Jeremy has won an Experience of a life-time: a trip on a fighter jet, which Odd wanted to win, so he sent applications of all his friends (without their permission) to maximize his chances of winning. However, the prize is non-transferable. Aelita gets a postcard from Canada, despite the living computer A.I./ daughter of a wanted terrorist who's parents are both (assumed) dead and it makes her wonder if one of her friends sent it to make her feel better. Given that she died in the last episode (even though I went over that she shouldn't have!)

Later that day, Jeremy arrives at the airfield, turns out, he is afraid of flying. So they decide to just have a photoshoot In the cockpit, and film the stunts without him.

But Wouldn't You Know Who Won The Pony, XANA takes control of the jet fighter with Jeremy inside.

The Pilot, Greg, who was trapped with Jeremy is electrocuted when he tries to reboot the system. Jeremy gets in contact with the factory and tells the warriors that the fighter jet, used for as a prize in a children's Magazine, is armed with Missiles!

So XANA wants to cause mayhem before offing his erstwhile nemesis. His coordinates put him on a b-line to crash into the factory. They Have 20 minutes to save The world, to deactivate the Red Tower in the ice zone, With Aelita going without Jeremy as control, they have no vehicles to get to the tower. And to make matters worse, the air force plan to shoot the jet out of the sky!

The warriors use their tried and tested method of distraction, while Aelita legs it to the tower. But that doesn't work on William who kidnaps her.

Xana has jammed the Ejector Seat On the Jet. One by One with Aelita bound by William's Power. The Heroes are Returned to Reality, Ulrich get a shot in a frees Aelita who Deactivates the Tower. With Jeremy telling the air force about he has no choice But activate Return To the Past, making Xana stronger the next time. And so it ends with Aelita finding out Jeremy sent the postcard to cheer her up, and Odd using Jeremy's name to go the Jet Experience...and crying like a baby throughout!

We End with 85, Kadic Bombshell, Sissi Penpal from Iceland called Brindje ("Brinda") The Emponymous Kadic Bombshell, who despite turning the heads of every male student, she finds Odd the most interesting, Something that causes the girl's pangs of Jealously when she comes on strong to their respective boyfriends,(despite Yumi and Ulrich claiming...

...So the heroes have an intervention with Odd, The Jealously has caused Friction, which causes Odd to get angry and leave on a date, and Quicker than you can say Pirates of Penzance, Odd uses his identity as a Superhero to impress a girl!

Bringing Brindje to the factory, she presses a few buttons that interferes with Jeremy's systems, the Tower Warning Alarm goes off, before it stops abruptly. When Jeremy sees what he Odd has done, he kicks him off the team, Meaning the warriors are going in blind til he fixes it!

Aelita is Virtualised onto the Wrong Zone, there is another problem too, She cannot return to Reality, and despite no Attack on Earth, Xana's Monsters are programmed to attack Humans on sight. And now, William is here. Odd has chose a stranger over his friends and as Jeremy surmises,  his friends are sent to an entirely different zone as Aelita thankfully using a way-tower sends them to the Mountain zone to rescue her. Seeing Brindje swarmed by male Students at the swimming pool, Odd leaves, not that she notices. Odd arrives to save the day, just as Yumi and Ulrich are taking out. Odd apologizes and asks if they are going to return to the past. Jeremy says that wont be necessary...Turns out Sissi "Convinced" Brindje to leave early, so she can have all the male attention again, only for Odd to continue to vie for Sissi's Attention!

Because of the Bank Holiday, we are a day behind, so we will return on Wednesday with 2 more Episodes, Canine Conundrum and Space ODDity!, Don't Forget to read the corresponding Chapters of TICKET TO HEAVEN Over on enlightenedtowers.blogpsot.ie

As we continue to return to the Past

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Eamonn Reviews Two Night Stand

 (FOREWORD: THE CURRENT STORYLINE WILL BE MOVED TO MY OTHER BLOG, ENLIGHTENEDTOWERS.BLOGSPOT.IE, FOR REASONS TO BE ANNOUNCED THERE ON THE FIFTH OF APRIL.)

Cover is three scenes that look like something out of a women's Magazine ask the Sexpert page, with the last picture looking exactly like the "I bet he's thinking of other Women" Meme.

Let's find out How out of my depth I really am, Let's have ourselves a Two Night Stand!

The film starts with a woman waking up from a one night stand next to a Snoring Young Man. She leaves a note (with no phone Number) and goes to leave his flat, But his front door is set to an Alarm, so she scrunches up her note and puts the blankets back over her.

We cut to sometime Before, and the Woman, Megan (Annaleigh Tipton) lies about her life on a Dating site, as she eats whole gingerbread houses in her footie pajamas, while Exposition News warns us a Blizzard is about to hit the Eastern Seaboard. 

It would be an awful shame if Not-Zendaya who shares the flat has to kick out Megan for not paying her rent, So Faiza laughs at how pathetic she is for starting online dating, She invites the waste of air Megan to a birthday of a single man described as "pretty, but kinda dumb, A perfect one night Stand" It's also a birthday party so, Free Cake!

So Megan, Faiza, and her boyfriend Cedric (the former Kid Cudi) Goes to the Club, Megan is turned away for not having ID, and bumps into her ex with a new girlfriend. So Faiza encourages her to go home and get a hookup via internet dating.

Or.....and here's a funny thought....you could tell her to PAY YOU THE MONEY SHE OWES YOU FOR RENT, YOU DUMBASS!

Back at her flat, full of ennui and red wine, Megan sets her bar low and goes Online dating, Finding Alec, (Miles Teller, Yer man from Whiplash, remember when that movie was a thing?) Neither of them done this before.

So we return to the events after Megan's attempt to peace out, and Alec goes off harder, he turns it off and goes back to sleep til his Alarm goes off with some obnoxious R&B, She calls him the wrong name, she gets defensive when he implies she's done this before, though what he meant was dating in general, for the pretty girl, but turns into an argument with both cursing each other and hoping never to see the other again! But, Wouldn't You Know, Who Won The Pony? But the Blizzard has hit and Megan is trapped in Alec's Building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

Because it's Christmas week, there is no snow plough or Civil Engineering, for at least 2 days! Faiza and Cedric are no help since they decided to turn the flat into a love nest to forgo their lazy flatmate paying her money, if they wanted to help her (which they don't)

So stuck in the blizzard, the two one night standers have to do the impossible: get to know each other, something the unemployed waster Megan gets defensive when asked about her career, not wanting this stranger to judge her as a stupid idiot!

So anyway, Megan Clogs the Toilet because she is an Idiot....

How it happened is that In the Bathroom, Megan finds Magazines on Dating and Psychological Profiling, and I wouldn't know, I'm not exactly beating women away with a stick, But I don't think Women like being Put under the Microscope, So she Shoves the entire page down the Porcelain Throne, causing it to overflow, During a Blizzard on Christmas. Alec deals with this by getting high.

During A game of Table Tennis,  Alec wants to know about  why Megan Cannot get a Job After Medical School, to which she answers by throwing the ping pong ball into a waste disposal unit.

So is this a Running Joke? Every time she is Evasive about it she will destroy Plumbing?

So to pass the time, What do most 20-Somethings do? Watch TV? Drink?

Bzzzt?

WRONG ANSWER!

The Correct Answer is off course, Build a Pillow Fort and eat lots of Children's Cereal!

We learn that despite doing the Mary Jane, Somehow Alec is an Assistant Manager at a bank, Doing Drugs is his way of catching up with all the rebelling you're supposed to do as a teenager. Megan doesn't partake, Because she once walked on her parents Smoking weed and watching porn. Megan grew up the only one in her class to have both parents living together, so to see them like that, doing things to spice up the drudgery of marriage, may have messed her up!

A song plays on a record and Megan tells Alec not to look, Coyly saying that if she is seen dancing, he'll fall in love with her. But I think it's too late!

Because they need to fix that toilet, Alec tries to borrow a plunger from a neighbour, but since it's Christmas, people are out of town. So they break into the flat, to steal a plunger, Megan bleeding from smashing a glass window belonging to a child's room! Alec gives her a tissue that she gives back bloodied.

PLOT POINT!

Unclogging the toilet, He reads the Offending Article, literally! It was an Article  in a magazine that offended her. So Because they are still convincing each other they will never see each other again they give constructive criticisms of the opposite sex of all the mannerisms they hate. So they have sex again with the criticisms noted, but since this is Sex Scene on a comedy film, there is jokes between foreplay and even him giving her belly a raspberry.

It's the Next Morning and there is no food left so Alec has Stole from the same neighbours. So Megan reveals that she didn't become a doctor because when she was engaged she only to the course to impress those she will meet, she always wanted to be a wife and mother, only for him to cheat for saying she is too career minded and Ambitious. Looking for a sweatshirt to wear, she finds pictures and women's clothing, learning Alec is cheating on a girlfriend with her, after everything she just said, he tells her he found a dear John Letter intended for him, but Megan is still pissed about it.

As the show stops and Civil Engineers get a shift on, Megan comes home, as does Alec's Girlfriend each finding notes that point to the relationship been over. Megan deletes her account and Faiza and Cedric asks Megan to leave....as soon as their party is over!

So let's finish this!

Because dating services can only give full names and addresses to police should their clients commit a crime, Alec has the idea to pin the break in with her blood as evidence. At her soon to be former flat, her Former classmate the cute dumb guy whose birthday it was comes to talk to her, while she is blitzed out of her mind, the police arrest her for the break-in and she refuses bail, so Megan spends new year in jail than speak to the man who put there.

Cedric and Faiza make her bail and Alec arrives with flowers and Balloons to confess his love, telling her one day she'll look it and laugh, she gives him his numbers, and tells him it will never happen. She sees the balloon reads "I AM AN ASSHOLE!" To which she laughs so that means she has to call him, so our story ends with are two star-crossed lovers, jobless, homeless and with previous that will be harder to find, but at least they have each other, right?

Meh!

Sorry for not opening the final chapter with my stolen catchphrase, but this film is Meh! The acting Meh! The premise is Meh, the Direction is Meh!

It's just a big fat.....MEH!!!!!

CREDITS

Two Night Stand was reviewed, Compiled and Edited and by Eamonn Bermingham (follow me on Twitter @RealEnli)

With media from:

Two night Stand

Regular Show

Two night stand was produced by Demarast Films and Distributed by Signature Films.

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