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Small fun fact about the Towers. The tops of each of the towers change color depending on who is in control. They're usually blue when not in use, turning red when XANA activates them and green when used by Jeremie. Franz activating them turns them white, which is what we usually see the towers as in seasons 3 and 4. This more or less means Franz Hopper is keeping all the towers from getting taken over passively by XANA through sheer force of will.
@@Colby2D No prob! Also, might as well fill in names of the other monsters mentioned. We have Tarantulas which were the first monsters introduced (still preferred Megatanks when it came to high level monsters, but I guess having a more specialized killer compared to the bulky Megatanks is important), the Creepers (God, those things were legit kinda scary) were the monsters in Sector 5, and finally the Mantas (three guesses as to which monster this one was and the first two don't count). Then of course there's the Scyphozoa you mentioned, which not gonna lie was a pretty intimidating threat to our heroes... These would be the last monsters introduced in Lyoko itself with the exception of one other monster introduced in Season 4, but we'll get to that when we get there.
Finally, thanks for this, man. Aelita's power is called Creativity. It's pretty broken, but every time she uses it, her life points are cut in half. So, she has to be very careful in the middle of an active battle. She'll die if she's devurtalized.
While XANA's sudden disaster of the week popping up again seems strange, it is logical. XANA is going through character development. He started the series with disaster of the week. Metawise, it's an easy way for people to get into it. But that was a young XANA, even with as powerful as he was, still learning, testing his limits. Then in season two, he begins planning long term. He has a goal, get Aelita's memory. We see him trying to lure them into traps to get to her, willing to work with them as long as needed when they're all in danger. And he also begins learning about them psychologically. He tears into the kids' relations, turning them against one another to be easier to manipulate. And then there's the return to the past. That makes XANA stronger. The kids did it all the time in season one, but now they have to save it for real emergencies, not just for convenience's sake. XANA is unable to get much stronger as a result. But notice once he starts going back to the disaster of the week formula, he is able to make them extreme enough to force the kids to return to the past. It's win-win for him. Either he gets Aelita, or he becomes stronger. XANA is a program, but he is growing, learning how to be a more effective antagonist. That is why he is able to win at the end. He got everything in place after trial and error, by growing stronger, and was able to escape, meaning the surefire way to turn him off will no longer work. That is why I wanted all the episodes looked at. Because even those disaster of the week episodes show XANA's long term plan and how subtle it is. This show isn't just a case of the heroes needing to grow stronger to confront their foe, but their foe developing and becoming stronger to overcome them. He's not just sitting in place waiting for them. He is learning and making plans.
That’s a good point, XANA’s like an algorithm that goes a bit back and forth, but I thought the hostage negotiations were really interesting especially
I love Sissi too! She’s such a misunderstood character, she acts like the queen bee but her only two friends are a simp and “the biggest loser in the school” but she just wants true friends like the Lyoko gang
That episode (Chips are down) is one of the episodes I hate the most in the entire history of Code Lyoko and what makes it worse is the "dramatic irony" when Ulrich did a Time Reversion for Yumi's sake and Jeremy in turn used it for his own benefit and didn't get punished for it, even though he deserved to hear his share of the credit for it and Ulrich didn't and it's so truly infuriating and unfair, both for the characters and for the feelings of us viewers that I so badly want to strangle Laurent Turner and Sophie Decroisette for writing such a horrible and miserable episode and on top of that Ulrich was ultimately so shamelessly childish, selfish and stupid to go and donate all the money when he could have kept at least some of it for himself and maybe also use some of it for the benefit of his group, either for their personal expenses or for the fight against X.A.N.A (with the money they could have bought all kinds of equipment that would have made the job much easier)
33:25 It’s more or less XANA learning and adapting. After encountering the Lyoko gang enough time, XANA is attempting to cause distrust and conflict within the group
That’s a good point. I think it rubbed some people the wrong way how frail their trust of each other was, but I think if XANA was more directly antagonizing people would maybe find it less jarring
10:10 Stuff like this demonstrate how tight the writing and continuity are. This is only one episode after Xana learned how to possess people he instantly went for the obvious application for this power possess one of Lyoko Warriors and establishing why Xana doesn't try this plan again in the future and by extension why Xana can't possess Alieta without outside help.
@@pyrotempestwing that makes sense. I’ve been wanting to play the game and make a video on it, that would be a really cool mechanic there if it’s in it
26:21 In the show’s defense, it’s probably a complicated program and Ulrich (who isn’t tech savvy at all) only did it once after reading Jeremy’s notes so he probably forgot and wouldn’t have had time to reread them or remember on his own before they drowned.
@@Colby2D it’s probably the same but we have to keep in mind this is a top secret military grade super computer, it probably just looks easy to us because Jeremy does it all the time and he is a child prodigy lol
40:28 "Do you believe in ghosts? No? Bad answer!" I don't know why but I find this quote very funny. Then again, XANA has proven very imaginative, ghosts are not out of the question ^^
You comment on how short guys are in this show compared to the girls. They are all early adolescents. The girls have already hit a growth spurt or two while the guys are still waiting for biology to catch up. It's a subtle detail that many animated shows overlook in order to stick to the 'guys are physically stronger and girls are more tactical' trope. It is one of the things that I genuinely appreciate about Code Lyoko. Jeremy, a guy, is actually the brains of the group and Yumi, a girl, is the muscle, both in the real world and in Lyoko.
Yeah and Yumi specifically is also around a couple years older than the others iirc, being in a different grade and class. Probably part of why XANA targets her irl so much cause she's the most likely to be alone at any given moment lol
I think one of my favorite parts of this show is seeing XANA casually go from being this mastermind with super intricate planning to a complete agent of chaos depending on however they feel. I also kind of wish you brought up how Odd might have unintentionally given XANA the idea for the snowstorm episode in the Kidnapping episode by telling the XANA possessed principal "You know, humans can die from extreme cold too." and then the Principal is like "Oh shit, really?" Another thing I'd like to mention is that I like to headcanon the Lottery episode is supposed to be after episode where Jeremy gets obsessed with returning to the past. Just gives the discrepancy a little bit of logic to me. This is the kind of show where you can play around with the canon order if the episode doesn't break status quo. It's kind of why I like a lot of the episodes that don't have too much actually going on story wise. You can just see these poor kids just be kids and deal with mundane issues for once instead of risk their lives. I don't remember if it's stated in the episode, but I think the reason why Jeremy tries to activate a tower in the second to last episode is because it's a way for him to concentrate more machine resources in the decoding since he's made such slow progress.
@@zynacle those are good points! I like in the hostage episode when Jeremy says we can die of cold and xana just reluctantly throws them a blanket, it’s kinda like the specters always gently place the lightbulb when coming out of the lamps
I do like the concept of the "Return to Past's" being more reserved now that Xana is getting stronger from them,I also it's a fun thought process to consider which ones are necessary? Like obviously ones that cause massive loss of life? Sure Somebody gets possessed and is in clear view of others doing horrible things that could cause their reputation to plummet or worse? Absolutely
Yeah that’s interesting how many things have happened where they didn’t return to the past that are just parts of their character according to others. In a way that makes characters like sissi that more isolated when you think this crew has spent months and months more together than the canon timeline actually has them even know each other possibly
I had that toy of Ulrich and the Overbike as a kid. I always thought the bike was cool, tbh. There's also the neat implication that his vehicle is the most grounded so that vertigo doesn't mess him up while he uses it. Also that's a pretty funny thumbnail.
This show has such a special place in my heart. I always feel giddy hearing the zombie episode talked about since that was the first episode I ever watched!
I suspect season 2 budget was bigger, or was at least building on past assets. We got a lot more footage of the crew inside the towers and a whole new zone. The 2D animations of the enemies was also really cool to see.
The prequel is very nice and I find very interesting what they did with Sissi. While it looks simple and innocent at first glance, this show has so much cool stuff hidden under the hood. Also: its end credit song has been living rent free inside my head for nearly 2 decades ^^
It’s really fun, and crazy that the reason why sissi can’t be trusted is because she was worried that the digital threat that hospitalized her was going to hurt ulrich, like it’s not even like she was gossiping or anything
A lot of XANA's plans make total sense is that it too is a "child" Yes, its an incredibly powerull and intelligent, sentient AI. But , while it too learns and adapts alongside the Lyoko gang its is also *viciously* petty and cruel. It using its resources to sow distrust and make the characters' lives worse because they keep ruining their plans instead of just attacking them in their sleep makes total sense. Hell, even in season 1 you could see the gradual shift of Xana going from more large scale plans to gunning for the Lyoko gang and their school *specifically* It makes this otherwise faceless threat have a suprising amount of character once you look at it from that angle.
It also makes full sense that he makes that switch. You need to take out what stands in your way first. The rest after that is easy because nobody else knows he is down there.
I love the idea of xana being sporadic because of an algorithm. I’d love if they directly acknowledged it more but that’s definitely something I’d love to incorporate in writing sometime, a subtle detail like progress not being linear because of a machine/algorithm is so cool to see people talk about
Season 2 is possibly my favorite. The emotional highs and lows were well done. The ending took my breath away (though it was also because i thought it was the final season at the time, but that was on me). A few of my personal favorites: Sissi being made more than just the typical mean girl as she's given more focus and I felt they used her screentime wisely. I was surprised when the zombies episode debuted and she willingly stepped close to Milly telling them to stay away from her. Two moments with Ulrich and Yumi stand out. When they are trapped in the boiler room, he is the gentleman not peeking. And when he stayed by her side during the blizzard, I choked up a little when he said he needs her. I liked it when XANA's monsters were drawn in 2D, that took me by surprise. And Aelita being sent to the hospital and turning off the supercomputer are dark, but the latter fits with her character. Though my favorite by far is Episode 42 "A Fine Mess", the one where Odd and Yumi switch bodies. It has been years since I last watched the series, but I can quote my favorite scene close to verbatim. Yumi : "You mean I have to spend the night in a guy's body?" Jeremy: "I'm not going to get any sleep at all, you know." Odd: "What do you mean? I've got a dynamite body. Better than yours. For instance, there's something itching in the small of my back. I think it's the strap to your..." *goes silent* *whimsical sound effect* Yumi: "DON'T YOU DARE TAKE THAT OFF, YOU HEAR!" I said outloud, " Yeah, they couldn't do this in American cartoons." Then had a long laugh and continued with the episode. As always, keep up the good work and have a good day (or night).
I think the funnies part of that interaction was Jeremy saying “I won’t be getting any sleep!” It’s just another very blunt Jeremy like I find so funny, I usually don’t like characters like Jeremy and aelita, but I think this show makes them all so amazing that it’s really not an issue with the character archetype/ I’ve learned. Probably my favorite episode too, odd coming to school as the cat girl is just so funny for so many reasons like Yumi owns this, but is maybe too shy to wear it
@@Colby2D I have a feeling that the yellow jacket thing was bought for her from her parents who provably wanted her to wear more color lol As someone who wore all black in high school, I remember my parents would be annoyed by that and would try to get me to wear color like when I'd go clothes shopping with them, they would tell I had to get at least one garment that wasn't black lol.
30:11 at this rate, they really should have tried to get sissy (think that’s how they spell their name) and Jim into the Lyoko gang. Jim is a big hearted guy and also was helpful during his time working with the gang, having him in their pocket could serve to get them through a lot of hurdles that a teacher/adult could make easier. As for Sissy, while she is bratty, she seems to have the capacity to grow and could have served to bolster the combatants to the cause. Though on the other hand, they tried to do that with William and that ended… well… *poorly* .
@@Colby2DI’m going to go out on a limb that after Evolution and the closure of moonscoop, the series won’t being going anywhere. I however would *LOVE* to be wrong about that and we either get a retcon that ignores Evolution and continues from the main series or a sequel that takes evolution and ties everything up in a satisfying way.
7:02 small animals do tend to feel safe in small closed enviroments. My own dog is kinda the size of kiwi and he enjopys going into his pet carrier on his own when im not aoround. Cant blame him hes got a large fluffy blanket and chew toys in there.
That’s interesting, my dog is a big lab mix so he just likes to sleep on the floor or couch, but the funniest part with kiwi is there’s a basketball in the drawer, like he must be sleeping on it but it looks like a ball that size would fit in the drawer less then kiwi
My biggest gripe with the second season is how blatantly obvious they made the Franz hopper Twist from the beginning. Even as a kid i was like "oh i guess franz hopper is aelita's dad so by that logic she was human all along." Children arent stupid they could have toned down the "foreshadowing" a bit
I think the father bit wasn’t much of a surprise because they acknowledge him as her father figure throughout the season. I think the human twist part was good, I wouldn’t say it shocked me but I like how it was presented throughout the season
Season two is where I really fell in love with this show. The characters felt a bit more real leading to more fighting that is understandable and yet also very dramatic. The stuff with the creator is both always so interesting (this is legit my gravity falls in that way) and the ways the heroes and XANA grow is intriguing in terms of their abilities. And then we have Aleita who became my favorite character this season. I have such a soft spot for the kind polite, fish out of water characters. And that plus the stuff with her father and Jermey (I ship them so hard) made her so likable this season. Overall I think arguably this season is the high point but I do think 3 + 4 are great! As for Sissy she is a character I liked more rewatching the show. Back in 2020 I had a lot of free time outside online classes so I binged this show entirely. And she really grew on me, which is why I like the Ws she gets as the show progresses.
I can totally see that, yeah I really sympathized with aelita this season much more, like I think they did a great job making her likable in the first season, but like even seeing her in the cafeteria all sad and alone I felt so bad for her lol
I probably commented this before, but I really wish that the Lyoko Warriors brought on more and more people to help them in the fight. They are kids, they would need breaks, or slip up and tell someone, or something. Bring in Sissi as she shows more and more she can handle it. Bring in Jim after he finds out. They don't have to be common warriors. Have them only join in rarely. Them being allowed to at least keep their memories after finding out the truth of the situation would at least be fun.
I believe that Sissi should have been a member of the team. She's vain and shallow. But at the end of the day, she knows what's really important. If she had gotten to keep her memories, I think she would have become a better person and friend to the team
Its a dynamic that would have added 2 backups to help cover the groups disappearance during school as well as add character development for sissi and jim for the rest of the series while the gang deals with xana posssesed williem on lyoko
Thanks for another great video. Xana definitely bounces between being a wacky to scary villain. I guess Xana flips a coin or something to decide which one will be.
I really never gave Sissy enough credit. She definitely did play some of the most important parts of supporting the protagonists. It really makes me think about why she puts on the whole persona that she does.
The prequel episode almost had Sissi apart of the group instead of Yumi. It would have been more interesting if Sissi officially joined their group giving her a redemption arc. Not to take away from William’s arc? But it would make Sissi a lot more complicated character.
@@Colby2D if I could give her a weapon of choice, it would be a bow and arrow. I don’t know why, but I would love to see Sissi in an Artemis style outfit, using her bow and arrows for some sniping. It would also tie into the motif of Odd having laser arrows, or rather crossbow bolts shot from his wrists. Given Ulrich and Yumi’s Japanese motif of Sword and Fan, having two arrow similarities would work for them too. Plus, since Sissi would be a team member, Odd and Sissi would have a nice dynamic as a couple and Ulrich wouldn’t have to deal with her trying to get him to date her.
Thanks for watching. Your voice acting is really cool, I’d love to reach out sometime in the future if I get more done for an animated pilot I’m working on
When Odd was in Yumi's body and then changed clothes... I can't help notice or believe that Odd saw Yumi's body naked. I mean he wouldn't be able to avoid to without changing clothes.
Hi I'm a French history nerd so i think i can "explain" a bit about the punic war thing. For a French student the punic wars is often considered among the "cool" conflit of the Antiquity that is very very famous on par with Caesar conquest of Gaul. I dont think there heavy symbolism especially considering how norse mythology is used in later season as a same "nerd-drop". If any i think it's just random bits to make the kid watching the show more curious about other things, French creators love to flex their culture and nerd-ness and also as Code Lyoko was funded by french public funds it can be branded "educational" more easily I guess. EDIT: Same bits apply to Go, and Silat. We love take care of details and especially the Code Lyoko creators. For the branding thing yeah it doesn't shock me, there is some rules but parody is very sacred in France and using another IP in a quoted way is very much allowed. I think it's generally more free because suing into oblivion is less an national sport than in the US.
That’s really interesting, yeah I knew very little about the Punic wars, or at least didn’t remember a lot, so I wasn’t sure if it was paralleling something. Do you live in France? I was wondering if cilat is popular there because I do not hear of anyone taking cilat in the US. Thanks for your comment!
30:42 Honestly, I think when it comes down to when things get bad she gets serious. Now imagine if Sissy was a lyoko warrior - learning of the plight of aelita, the evil of X.A.N.A , and the burden the gang has to deal with balancing saving the world and being normal kids. I feel like she would grow leaps and bounds and keep the attitude she has during all the X.A.N.A attacks. Edit: ok yeah, that last part makes it abundantly clear that while she would be a good lyoko warrior she would squeal as soon as things go over the edge. Maybe having Jim and sissy join would balance it out but, seems like an unnecessary risk for little to no reward.
I loved the show as a kid but could never follow the actual overarching plot due to missing many episodes here and there. I's great finally seeing it all summed-up by you and that it actually broke the status quo in multiple ways that I never noticed.
That's awesome to hear, thanks for checking it out! Yeah they definitely wanted to keep the overarching plot minimal enough that we could tune in randomly and still know what's going on, for better or worse
Fun fact the veichles start out in this season and weapons they have get refined as the show goes on new things added all the time in this series, also the Kolossus in her is terrifying. Plus my favorite things about this series is it's constant lore expansion. I always assumed that when aelita couldn't constantly use the earth moving ability constantly because it cost hp
I’ve heard some other people say aelitas moves cost hp which is really interesting. I definitely love the lore too especially because a lot of it is very subtle
Yeah season 2 was when on my rewatch binge back in like 2019 i was blown away by how good the Lyoko sections looked still. I was also obsessed with Odd's new run animation lol. Sector 5 always got me hype as a kid whenever they went there. Also the vehicles ruled
I think sissi having "random" bouts of compassion makes sense when you think about it. The guy she likes ulrich is incredibly honourable most of the time and always puts others especially yumi above himself, to her thats probably one of the few ways she can connect with him. Showing him she can be compassionate to try and gain his attention. So over all i think it's normal for her to do that stuff
I agree, I think the novel part about it is when sissi has a random act of kindness when others aren’t really around to impress, like she’s actually a good person deep down, or ulrich may be influencing her to have that compassion maybe
@@Colby2D true though I think all of them maybe having a bit of an effect, she wants to be more like yumi to get Ulrich's attention, wants to help Ulrich and he's clearly having a positive effect on her personality then you have odd who she's definitely in competition with outfits wise haha
@@Colby2D he does haha I don't think sissi would win a competition with him I mean did you see the outfit he put yumi in? Even as a girl he's got style
I think I read somewhere that Aelita’s creativity power costs some life points (which she can regenerate while in a tower), plus she has to concentrate, which leaves her vulnerable to attack.
That makes a lot of sense given how rarely she uses it. I’ve been meaning to play the ds game, will probably do that and check out the live action show for an upcoming video
OMG I'm so glad you've continued going through the show. I really enjoyed for videos on season one and this one was fantastic!! I can't wait to see more and more of the show. You do a great job of dissecting the tension and drama! This series has even gotten a friend and I to rewatch the show and show it to a few mutual friends as well~
Man I can only imagine the whiplash of watching through all seasons back to back for the first time. Episode to episode, everything is always in flux from the animation to the pacing to the tone and it makes rewatching actually fun to try to pick out weird details
40:57 my favorite part of this episode is that they leave it pretty open ended whether or not ghosts actually exist in the world since the most very much gives of the vibe of a cement overed moster when the legend that got Sissy down their talks about a guy who died via concrete. At peast that the impression i get
45:00 my understanding of this is that Lyoko is a sort of operating system almost; it allows the user(s) to interface with the supercomputer, and the towers represent different CPU cores within the physical computer part (or CPU groups or whatever). activating a tower allows the user to access a much more significant chunk of the supercomputer's processing power, but a security issue also allows bad actors/viruses (aka xana) to sneak out the metaphorical backdoor and access the broader network beyond the local access it has without any active towers. that's how i always rationalized it, anyway. I don't think it gets super well explained iirc
The best thing about the fights in code lyoko is that a good percent of the time you get to see some cool tactics being put to use. Its one of the things that actually got me into tactics atyle games going into the future.
Season 2 was simply amazing and it really ramped things up to 11 with the plot and as I mentioned in your season 1 video, this was the season that got me hooked and made me acknowledge that I heavily misjudged the show during it's first season and that from there on it (as it was airing on Cartoon Network), that I would be sticking with it. It's hard to pick a favorite episode because there are so many good ones but I agree that the episode where Aelita literally was dying and had to keep being revived blew 14/15 year old me seeing a show aimed at children go that far, it was incredible and much appreciated that they took the chance to do this. I also liked the episode where Yumi's parents were considering moving back to Japan because of how hard it was for her father to find work, it was just so painfully relatable. The scene where her mother and father argue over their job searches, just man, relatable. And it also was a nice character moment for Yumi showing why family is so important to her because of the hardships that her's can have like. Like in the Picture day episode, we learn that her parents don't seem to have the best communication with each other, it's just something lol. Also yeah, it was totally weird when they'd reference real life media properties like Spider Man or an actor like Bruce Willis, it kinda breaks the immersion a bit tbh but thankfully they didn't do it too much so it was easy to ignore lol. Also Odd and Sissi meeting on a dating website, that is just all kinds of messed up in the sense that I remember dating websites back in the day and you had to be at least 18 to use them so it's crazy how they put in a plot like that in a kids show when they're like 13, like what? lmao. And the episode where Xana brings in a fake Franz Hopper and the gang turns on Jeremy, I remember really not liking this episode at all when it aired but iupon multiple re-watches, I've come to appreciate it because at the end of the day they are all still kids and it's understandable why their emotions may get the better of them which the show has shown plenty of times and it's forgivable because again, they're kids. So pretty much agree with your sentiment here. But finally, that season 2 finale man. I had mad chills and intense feeling during the whole episode up to the climax and the writers gave us viewers a curve ball that Xana, the big bad actually won, it got what it wanted. The ending scene where the gang is in the room and reassuring that they all will be there together to fight and not abandon Aelita still gives me chills every time I re-watch the show, that's when you know it's such a strong episode haha. Also on Sissi, I think she's annoying but I think she's a good character because it makes sense why she is obnoxious and entitled because her father spoiled her but her also showing acts of kindness can also be attributed to her upbringing because while her father spoiled her, he's not a bad man and does try to keep the students safe in line (even if it can be seen as neglible to us the viewers as we follow the Lyoko warriors lol). So her being nuanced like this totally makes sense for her character.
Definitely a lot of good points! The sissi and odd ship is really funny, I know they never really push any romance in the show, but I do like the notion that they’re really compatible, and we know from the prequel odd finds her attractive at least. That would be the only thing I’d like to see more in the future is more connected plots and relationships episode to episode, that would even make a character like Sissi a lot more complex. But yeah the dating app part was weird especially because they’re teens, I chalk it up to being right around the big boom of the internet and stuff and the exploitation on apps and stuff probably wasn’t even considered, that, or they’re just pretending the characters are adults like how Yumi and ulrich always argue like an old married couple
@@Colby2D Yeah I think Odd and Sisi could've worked as a couple but I won't lie, I also like the confirmation of Odd being bisexual and if the show was more progressive, they would've had him explore it but that's thinking way too ahead. I agree though it would've been nice if there were more connected plots than what we got (which was still nice don't get me wrong). And yeah, I remember early 2000s websites was pretty wild and it's believable that someone like Odd and even Sissi would use it when they shouldn't have lol.
24:48 So there is a reason for this... or rather was a reason for this. During season 1, everytime aelita used her digital powers (called Creativity) she would lose half of her current life point count as recoil. This made using her abilities risky as going from 100 to 50 life points like that would put her in danger agaisnt some of the harder hitting monsters. In season 2 however the series bible was changed and so was the mechanics to creativity. It no longer cut her life points and also xana wanted her alive for her memory, which makes her hesitence to use them even more confusing.
That’s a really cool note, the life points being cut makes sense, I don’t really remember it in season 1 but I like the idea that it costs life points and it’s really slow and leaves her vulnerable to use
8:25 Yumi also studies a Pencak Silat and fun fact her battle fans are actually a weapon used by Pencak Silat specialists or at least are based on ones.
Thank you, I definitely wanted to keep the music from the era somewhat consistent! And the song at 50:27 is National Park from Pokémon Heart Gold Soul Silver
@@Colby2D thank you, I was wondering why it sounds so familiar and nostalgic! Also please keep up the good work, I always look forward to your vids and listening to your point of views! 💙
It's mentioned a couple times in the show that returning to the past won't bring back anyone who dies, and I have to wonder how they learned that info.
I believe they say the time between the prequel and first episode is about a year, so it’d be interesting to see if something happened in that time or they read it somewhere
@@King_Luigi The Digital Sea represents Lyoko's connection to the internet, and when data is sent through the internet it is first broken up into "packets." My theory is that Jeremy ran a simulation and discovered that if someone who had been virtualized was broken up into packets, they lose whatever part of their coding allows them to be devirtualized.
That’s awesome to hear, I’m glad that video jogged the memory, I’m having a really great time watching, it really wasn’t a show I watched much at all ever as a kid and now I love it
Yeah honestly compare the time Xana impersonated Yumi in season 1 vs the xana kiss episode where actually gets the whole group to doubt each other and he is not instantly figured out. I also liked the little exchange William had with Sissi at the pool. Her standing in for Yumi was pretty nice of her and I love that Yumi did reward her for it in the end.
I think with Sissie it goes to that one saying "people show who they really are in their last moments" (or however it goes) To where sure she's a constant foil but deep down she just wants to be accepted or something.
17:45 slight misconception here is that the transfer would leave Alieta's memory open to just be taken without the time consuming process that the Jellyfish takes. Not that it would ovewrite Yumi's memorys
I believe XANA's best plan so far was turning off gravity. They're basically making these kids experience The Rapture XD Been loving this retrospectives since I watched a lot of these shows as a kid ^^
I dont know if you will and I totally understand if you dont want to but I 'm sure I and a ton of other people would love for you to cover Code Lyoko: Evolution.
@@Colby2DAka the “sequel series” that killed the franchise(as of now though there are rumors of a revival); it failed financially, leading to MoonScoop’s bankruptcy, and the Code Lyoko IP being acquired by Média Communicatíons, otherwise known outside of France as Dargaud.
The scyphozoa always freaked me out as a kid. It was just so messed up, the concept of it sucked the memories from peoples bodies- Even the jellyfish like appearance gave it an alien feel to me.
44:31 That's so true. It feels like we got blue-balled with Franz. And this was actually the closest we ever got to seeing him in the real world so it just seems like a big missed opportunity. There's a tried & tested formula for characters like this. They get teased a bunch of times, then they appear in person and it's a big deal and then they stick around for the final chunk of the story, helping the heroes defeat the big bad. That's what happened in shows like Gravity Falls or Trollhunters. And I think that's what they should've done here. I think Hopper should've been rescued and brought back to the real world around 10 episodes before the series finale and gotten loads of juicy interactions with the Lyoko Warriors. But especially Aelita & Jeremy. Alas, that doesn't happen. And the Project Carthage lore also becomes irrelevant after Season 2.
Teasing Franz here was cool, but I just didn’t care because no one else cared, like that feels like one of the main components for the story after season 2 and it happened like it didn’t even matter,
I’m sure the French dub is better, but I really like the English cast. Jeremy kinda reminds me of bentley from sly cooper, like kind of a parody, but I do think it’s really interesting his voice actress voices both Jeremy and Aelita
I still go back and fourth between whether season 2 or 3 is the best season of the show. The writing was so solid in the middle chunk and all the characters got developed so well and in a realistic way. Though I’ll say the third is my favorite because Aelita actually got an offensive power.
I hardly ever checked out this aside from adverts I saw in the past and I'm agreeing with not just you but other YT reviewers who have similar opinions and thoughts and intriguing details etc..
Honestly the scene that always stuck with me as a kid was after the anti virus/black ooze was defeated XANA had the Lyoko Warriors in a compromising spot but instead of attacking the monsters just nod and walk off. I know its just the kids show status quo thing, but gives me "professionals have standards" vibe. Like XANA may be a homicidal computer program but he/she/it isn't without a bit of honor
For sure, there’s that part, or xana giving the blanket to Yumi and odd when they were freezing in the hostage negotiation, and I was also thinking whether the creatures in lyoko had more free will at all or if they were more just xana controlled 1 to 1
If I had a nickle for every show that was purely episodic in season one to then change to be story-driven and heavy on continuity in season 2.... Well that would be a ton of nickels
It would be haha, definitely a lot of requests to do this from networks like “hey if you want to tell a story, fine, but we need episodes for reruns first”
Spoilers, but to answer the question about the Carthage references, Lyoko was originally a secret cold war communications project ran by the Swiss government called Project Carthage. A reference to the smaller Carthage going up against the bigger and badder Roman (Soviet) empire. The passwords being similar to that makes sense.
The reason if I recall that Aelita doesn't use Creativity more is because it costs 50 hp to use so its a one time use skill. Writers probably write with that in mind or something. I may be Mandela effect remembering if it was mentioned in the show since the wiki said that the line mentioning it got cut.
XANAs behaviors and logical faults, mistakes and monster design makes a loot more sense when you read the novels. They might not be fully canon, but it is clear the authors had a similar idea in mind of how XANA as an AI was trained.
Maybe someday I’ll talk about the novels. I feel like I’d probably like to go through and just read them on my own sometime. Is it supposed to be read after?
Not sure if you're planning on covering the third season (I hope so at some point) but I feel like the two prequel episodes are worth keeping a mental note of as you go into the finale of season 3, just to keep in mind how the group acted as they were learning the ropes then, and how unfair they honestly were to a certain someone going into the finale.
I think that Odd is the second most powerful warrior right behind Althea , odd has flexibility and acrobatics of both Ulrich and Yumi plus he’s ability to see into the future .
I think you could argue he’s the most powerful just because so many situations find aelita trapped in a 1v1 she does nothing in, like with the scyphozoa, where we’ve seen odd take it out
I would guess a lot like Yumi model wise, weapon wise I’ve seen staff and I’ve seen bow and arrow, both seem cool. I’d love to see what Jim looks like virtualized
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I like code lyoko because the main characters aren’t dumb for the sake of plot but they are also very clearly kids and make some stupid decisions.
@@ThePigKnight for sure, and even though aelita doesn’t fit that bill completely it’s cool to see the times she rebels or goes off on her own too
XANA really said 'Jim's a homie, he deserves a win.'
"I hate all humans. But I hate you the least, Jim."
Jim could have defeated Xana if he had gone Ultra Instinct. He just chose not too lol
@@Brettovski when did Jim learn Ultra Instinct?
He'd rather not talk about it.@@matthewwilliams8267
@@matthewwilliams8267 He’d rather not talk about it.
The fact that there are still people talking about code lyoko makes me very happy this was my childhood
I didn’t watch it much at all as a kid but so happy to have found it now because of the comments that asked me to watch this
Funny enough there was an interview with the creators of Code Lyoko and possibly a reboot happening
Small fun fact about the Towers. The tops of each of the towers change color depending on who is in control. They're usually blue when not in use, turning red when XANA activates them and green when used by Jeremie. Franz activating them turns them white, which is what we usually see the towers as in seasons 3 and 4. This more or less means Franz Hopper is keeping all the towers from getting taken over passively by XANA through sheer force of will.
That’s really cool, I didn’t know about the green and white colors and meanings! Thanks as always, Jenny
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Also, might as well fill in names of the other monsters mentioned. We have Tarantulas which were the first monsters introduced (still preferred Megatanks when it came to high level monsters, but I guess having a more specialized killer compared to the bulky Megatanks is important), the Creepers (God, those things were legit kinda scary) were the monsters in Sector 5, and finally the Mantas (three guesses as to which monster this one was and the first two don't count). Then of course there's the Scyphozoa you mentioned, which not gonna lie was a pretty intimidating threat to our heroes...
These would be the last monsters introduced in Lyoko itself with the exception of one other monster introduced in Season 4, but we'll get to that when we get there.
That last line reminds me of the John Wick description. Franz is a man of ... focus ... commitment ... a force of sheer fucking will! lmaoo
Finally, thanks for this, man. Aelita's power is called Creativity. It's pretty broken, but every time she uses it, her life points are cut in half. So, she has to be very careful in the middle of an active battle. She'll die if she's devurtalized.
While XANA's sudden disaster of the week popping up again seems strange, it is logical.
XANA is going through character development.
He started the series with disaster of the week. Metawise, it's an easy way for people to get into it. But that was a young XANA, even with as powerful as he was, still learning, testing his limits.
Then in season two, he begins planning long term. He has a goal, get Aelita's memory. We see him trying to lure them into traps to get to her, willing to work with them as long as needed when they're all in danger. And he also begins learning about them psychologically. He tears into the kids' relations, turning them against one another to be easier to manipulate.
And then there's the return to the past. That makes XANA stronger. The kids did it all the time in season one, but now they have to save it for real emergencies, not just for convenience's sake. XANA is unable to get much stronger as a result. But notice once he starts going back to the disaster of the week formula, he is able to make them extreme enough to force the kids to return to the past. It's win-win for him. Either he gets Aelita, or he becomes stronger.
XANA is a program, but he is growing, learning how to be a more effective antagonist. That is why he is able to win at the end. He got everything in place after trial and error, by growing stronger, and was able to escape, meaning the surefire way to turn him off will no longer work.
That is why I wanted all the episodes looked at. Because even those disaster of the week episodes show XANA's long term plan and how subtle it is. This show isn't just a case of the heroes needing to grow stronger to confront their foe, but their foe developing and becoming stronger to overcome them. He's not just sitting in place waiting for them. He is learning and making plans.
That’s a good point, XANA’s like an algorithm that goes a bit back and forth, but I thought the hostage negotiations were really interesting especially
I love Sissi too! She’s such a misunderstood character, she acts like the queen bee but her only two friends are a simp and “the biggest loser in the school” but she just wants true friends like the Lyoko gang
She had her moments but I she always did stuff to remind me she was a scheming b*tch like stealing Ulrich’s journal and blackmailing him over it 😒😒😒
Yeah the origin special really shows what could've been, she wasn't bad just had slightly different values on the situation than the rest
I can't believe they complain about Ulric winning the lotto when Jeremy is out here buffing his int lmao
They won’t need int with that money, they can just buy a tank lol
That episode (Chips are down) is one of the episodes I hate the most in the entire history of Code Lyoko and what makes it worse is the "dramatic irony" when Ulrich did a Time Reversion for Yumi's sake and Jeremy in turn used it for his own benefit and didn't get punished for it, even though he deserved to hear his share of the credit for it and Ulrich didn't and it's so truly infuriating and unfair, both for the characters and for the feelings of us viewers that I so badly want to strangle Laurent Turner and Sophie Decroisette for writing such a horrible and miserable episode and on top of that Ulrich was ultimately so shamelessly childish, selfish and stupid to go and donate all the money when he could have kept at least some of it for himself and maybe also use some of it for the benefit of his group, either for their personal expenses or for the fight against X.A.N.A (with the money they could have bought all kinds of equipment that would have made the job much easier)
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Jeremy's online girlfriend from Canada who is totally transferring to his school next semester... was real?
The one instance of she goes to a different school being true lol
33:25 It’s more or less XANA learning and adapting. After encountering the Lyoko gang enough time, XANA is attempting to cause distrust and conflict within the group
That’s a good point. I think it rubbed some people the wrong way how frail their trust of each other was, but I think if XANA was more directly antagonizing people would maybe find it less jarring
I believe the “Franz Hopper” episode is the one that gave me one of my favorite Lyoko scenes: Odd boxing with a creeper. He really is the best.
Odd boxing the creeper and Yumi blocking the lasers with her fan without looking
10:10 Stuff like this demonstrate how tight the writing and continuity are. This is only one episode after Xana learned how to possess people he instantly went for the obvious application for this power possess one of Lyoko Warriors and establishing why Xana doesn't try this plan again in the future and by extension why Xana can't possess Alieta without outside help.
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24:53 I seem to recall from many years ago that Aelita’s Creativity ability is Cast From Hit Points.
@@pyrotempestwing that makes sense. I’ve been wanting to play the game and make a video on it, that would be a really cool mechanic there if it’s in it
26:21 In the show’s defense, it’s probably a complicated program and Ulrich (who isn’t tech savvy at all) only did it once after reading Jeremy’s notes so he probably forgot and wouldn’t have had time to reread them or remember on his own before they drowned.
I was also wondering if maybe the code is different each time, like all the factors change all the inputs
@@Colby2D it’s probably the same but we have to keep in mind this is a top secret military grade super computer, it probably just looks easy to us because Jeremy does it all the time and he is a child prodigy lol
40:28 "Do you believe in ghosts?
No?
Bad answer!"
I don't know why but I find this quote very funny. Then again, XANA has proven very imaginative, ghosts are not out of the question ^^
His delivery is so funny, like he knew the answer and was just testing her, for no reason lol
@@Colby2D That sounds like a thing this guy would do, yes.
The English dub is still very weird though, I'm not sure the VAs are a good match.
You comment on how short guys are in this show compared to the girls. They are all early adolescents. The girls have already hit a growth spurt or two while the guys are still waiting for biology to catch up. It's a subtle detail that many animated shows overlook in order to stick to the 'guys are physically stronger and girls are more tactical' trope. It is one of the things that I genuinely appreciate about Code Lyoko. Jeremy, a guy, is actually the brains of the group and Yumi, a girl, is the muscle, both in the real world and in Lyoko.
@@dhawthorne1634 that’s a good point, it works really well here!
Yeah and Yumi specifically is also around a couple years older than the others iirc, being in a different grade and class. Probably part of why XANA targets her irl so much cause she's the most likely to be alone at any given moment lol
I think one of my favorite parts of this show is seeing XANA casually go from being this mastermind with super intricate planning to a complete agent of chaos depending on however they feel. I also kind of wish you brought up how Odd might have unintentionally given XANA the idea for the snowstorm episode in the Kidnapping episode by telling the XANA possessed principal "You know, humans can die from extreme cold too." and then the Principal is like "Oh shit, really?"
Another thing I'd like to mention is that I like to headcanon the Lottery episode is supposed to be after episode where Jeremy gets obsessed with returning to the past. Just gives the discrepancy a little bit of logic to me. This is the kind of show where you can play around with the canon order if the episode doesn't break status quo. It's kind of why I like a lot of the episodes that don't have too much actually going on story wise. You can just see these poor kids just be kids and deal with mundane issues for once instead of risk their lives.
I don't remember if it's stated in the episode, but I think the reason why Jeremy tries to activate a tower in the second to last episode is because it's a way for him to concentrate more machine resources in the decoding since he's made such slow progress.
@@zynacle those are good points! I like in the hostage episode when Jeremy says we can die of cold and xana just reluctantly throws them a blanket, it’s kinda like the specters always gently place the lightbulb when coming out of the lamps
I do like the concept of the "Return to Past's" being more reserved now that Xana is getting stronger from them,I also it's a fun thought process to consider which ones are necessary?
Like obviously ones that cause massive loss of life? Sure
Somebody gets possessed and is in clear view of others doing horrible things that could cause their reputation to plummet or worse? Absolutely
Yeah that’s interesting how many things have happened where they didn’t return to the past that are just parts of their character according to others. In a way that makes characters like sissi that more isolated when you think this crew has spent months and months more together than the canon timeline actually has them even know each other possibly
I had that toy of Ulrich and the Overbike as a kid. I always thought the bike was cool, tbh. There's also the neat implication that his vehicle is the most grounded so that vertigo doesn't mess him up while he uses it.
Also that's a pretty funny thumbnail.
That’s really cool, I saw it online and debated buying one lol. And thanks! Glad you enjoyed🙂
This show has such a special place in my heart. I always feel giddy hearing the zombie episode talked about since that was the first episode I ever watched!
I’ve heard a couple other people say this, seems like such a funny strange coincidence
I suspect season 2 budget was bigger, or was at least building on past assets. We got a lot more footage of the crew inside the towers and a whole new zone. The 2D animations of the enemies was also really cool to see.
The prequel is very nice and I find very interesting what they did with Sissi. While it looks simple and innocent at first glance, this show has so much cool stuff hidden under the hood.
Also: its end credit song has been living rent free inside my head for nearly 2 decades ^^
It’s really fun, and crazy that the reason why sissi can’t be trusted is because she was worried that the digital threat that hospitalized her was going to hurt ulrich, like it’s not even like she was gossiping or anything
A lot of XANA's plans make total sense is that it too is a "child"
Yes, its an incredibly powerull and intelligent, sentient AI.
But , while it too learns and adapts alongside the Lyoko gang its is also *viciously* petty and cruel.
It using its resources to sow distrust and make the characters' lives worse because they keep ruining their plans instead of just attacking them in their sleep makes total sense.
Hell, even in season 1 you could see the gradual shift of Xana going from more large scale plans to gunning for the Lyoko gang and their school *specifically*
It makes this otherwise faceless threat have a suprising amount of character once you look at it from that angle.
It also makes full sense that he makes that switch. You need to take out what stands in your way first. The rest after that is easy because nobody else knows he is down there.
@@mbos14 true, though the methods XANA sometimes uses instead of just killing them in their sleep seem almost needlessly conveluted.
I love the idea of xana being sporadic because of an algorithm. I’d love if they directly acknowledged it more but that’s definitely something I’d love to incorporate in writing sometime, a subtle detail like progress not being linear because of a machine/algorithm is so cool to see people talk about
Season 2 is possibly my favorite. The emotional highs and lows were well done. The ending took my breath away (though it was also because i thought it was the final season at the time, but that was on me). A few of my personal favorites:
Sissi being made more than just the typical mean girl as she's given more focus and I felt they used her screentime wisely. I was surprised when the zombies episode debuted and she willingly stepped close to Milly telling them to stay away from her.
Two moments with Ulrich and Yumi stand out. When they are trapped in the boiler room, he is the gentleman not peeking. And when he stayed by her side during the blizzard, I choked up a little when he said he needs her.
I liked it when XANA's monsters were drawn in 2D, that took me by surprise. And Aelita being sent to the hospital and turning off the supercomputer are dark, but the latter fits with her character.
Though my favorite by far is Episode 42 "A Fine Mess", the one where Odd and Yumi switch bodies. It has been years since I last watched the series, but I can quote my favorite scene close to verbatim.
Yumi : "You mean I have to spend the night in a guy's body?"
Jeremy: "I'm not going to get any sleep at all, you know."
Odd: "What do you mean? I've got a dynamite body. Better than yours. For instance, there's something itching in the small of my back. I think it's the strap to your..." *goes silent*
*whimsical sound effect*
Yumi: "DON'T YOU DARE TAKE THAT OFF, YOU HEAR!"
I said outloud, " Yeah, they couldn't do this in American cartoons." Then had a long laugh and continued with the episode.
As always, keep up the good work and have a good day (or night).
I think the funnies part of that interaction was Jeremy saying “I won’t be getting any sleep!” It’s just another very blunt Jeremy like I find so funny, I usually don’t like characters like Jeremy and aelita, but I think this show makes them all so amazing that it’s really not an issue with the character archetype/ I’ve learned. Probably my favorite episode too, odd coming to school as the cat girl is just so funny for so many reasons like Yumi owns this, but is maybe too shy to wear it
@@Colby2D I have a feeling that the yellow jacket thing was bought for her from her parents who provably wanted her to wear more color lol As someone who wore all black in high school, I remember my parents would be annoyed by that and would try to get me to wear color like when I'd go clothes shopping with them, they would tell I had to get at least one garment that wasn't black lol.
30:11 at this rate, they really should have tried to get sissy (think that’s how they spell their name) and Jim into the Lyoko gang.
Jim is a big hearted guy and also was helpful during his time working with the gang, having him in their pocket could serve to get them through a lot of hurdles that a teacher/adult could make easier.
As for Sissy, while she is bratty, she seems to have the capacity to grow and could have served to bolster the combatants to the cause.
Though on the other hand, they tried to do that with William and that ended… well… *poorly* .
If it ever got reboot again I would love them to join the team
@@Colby2DI’m going to go out on a limb that after Evolution and the closure of moonscoop, the series won’t being going anywhere.
I however would *LOVE* to be wrong about that and we either get a retcon that ignores Evolution and continues from the main series or a sequel that takes evolution and ties everything up in a satisfying way.
7:02 small animals do tend to feel safe in small closed enviroments. My own dog is kinda the size of kiwi and he enjopys going into his pet carrier on his own when im not aoround. Cant blame him hes got a large fluffy blanket and chew toys in there.
That’s interesting, my dog is a big lab mix so he just likes to sleep on the floor or couch, but the funniest part with kiwi is there’s a basketball in the drawer, like he must be sleeping on it but it looks like a ball that size would fit in the drawer less then kiwi
My biggest gripe with the second season is how blatantly obvious they made the Franz hopper Twist from the beginning. Even as a kid i was like "oh i guess franz hopper is aelita's dad so by that logic she was human all along."
Children arent stupid they could have toned down the "foreshadowing" a bit
I think the father bit wasn’t much of a surprise because they acknowledge him as her father figure throughout the season. I think the human twist part was good, I wouldn’t say it shocked me but I like how it was presented throughout the season
39:03 I love how it sounds like Jeremy's VA was laughing when they said that line
Season two is where I really fell in love with this show. The characters felt a bit more real leading to more fighting that is understandable and yet also very dramatic. The stuff with the creator is both always so interesting (this is legit my gravity falls in that way) and the ways the heroes and XANA grow is intriguing in terms of their abilities. And then we have Aleita who became my favorite character this season. I have such a soft spot for the kind polite, fish out of water characters. And that plus the stuff with her father and Jermey (I ship them so hard) made her so likable this season. Overall I think arguably this season is the high point but I do think 3 + 4 are great! As for Sissy she is a character I liked more rewatching the show. Back in 2020 I had a lot of free time outside online classes so I binged this show entirely. And she really grew on me, which is why I like the Ws she gets as the show progresses.
I can totally see that, yeah I really sympathized with aelita this season much more, like I think they did a great job making her likable in the first season, but like even seeing her in the cafeteria all sad and alone I felt so bad for her lol
I probably commented this before, but I really wish that the Lyoko Warriors brought on more and more people to help them in the fight. They are kids, they would need breaks, or slip up and tell someone, or something. Bring in Sissi as she shows more and more she can handle it. Bring in Jim after he finds out. They don't have to be common warriors. Have them only join in rarely. Them being allowed to at least keep their memories after finding out the truth of the situation would at least be fun.
It’d be fun to include guests more, whether they keep their memories or not it would freshen some things up in lyoko a lot
I believe that Sissi should have been a member of the team.
She's vain and shallow. But at the end of the day, she knows what's really important.
If she had gotten to keep her memories, I think she would have become a better person and friend to the team
I would personally enjoy if Sissi and Jim sometimes retained their memories, I think that’d be a nice touch
Its a dynamic that would have added 2 backups to help cover the groups disappearance during school as well as add character development for sissi and jim for the rest of the series while the gang deals with xana posssesed williem on lyoko
15:38 "Jim actually ends up getting possessed by Xana, but I'd rather not talk about it."
Thanks for another great video. Xana definitely bounces between being a wacky to scary villain. I guess Xana flips a coin or something to decide which one will be.
Thank you. That’s definitely one of the creepiest parts about xana, like you never know if it’s gonna be strong or just lurk
I really never gave Sissy enough credit. She definitely did play some of the most important parts of supporting the protagonists. It really makes me think about why she puts on the whole persona that she does.
The prequel episode almost had Sissi apart of the group instead of Yumi. It would have been more interesting if Sissi officially joined their group giving her a redemption arc. Not to take away from William’s arc? But it would make Sissi a lot more complicated character.
Without remembering much of William’s time with the team, sissi seems like a much cooler addition to the cast, but it’ll be interesting to see
@@Colby2D if I could give her a weapon of choice, it would be a bow and arrow. I don’t know why, but I would love to see Sissi in an Artemis style outfit, using her bow and arrows for some sniping. It would also tie into the motif of Odd having laser arrows, or rather crossbow bolts shot from his wrists. Given Ulrich and Yumi’s Japanese motif of Sword and Fan, having two arrow similarities would work for them too.
Plus, since Sissi would be a team member, Odd and Sissi would have a nice dynamic as a couple and Ulrich wouldn’t have to deal with her trying to get him to date her.
I agree
Thank you for refreshing memories I have long since miss.
Thanks for watching. Your voice acting is really cool, I’d love to reach out sometime in the future if I get more done for an animated pilot I’m working on
When Odd was in Yumi's body and then changed clothes... I can't help notice or believe that Odd saw Yumi's body naked. I mean he wouldn't be able to avoid to without changing clothes.
I like how he was able to make an outfit that was so unmistakably Odd, even as Yumi lol
The soundtrack in this video is so perfect for all these vibes
@@AntiNihilist thank you, I put a lot of thought into the flow of the songs with the episodes haha
This is why Cissy is a better character than Chloe from Miraculous Ladybug,
30:52 The best part is that wasn't even Xana the scanners just glitched and that's funny to me.
Hi I'm a French history nerd so i think i can "explain" a bit about the punic war thing. For a French student the punic wars is often considered among the "cool" conflit of the Antiquity that is very very famous on par with Caesar conquest of Gaul. I dont think there heavy symbolism especially considering how norse mythology is used in later season as a same "nerd-drop". If any i think it's just random bits to make the kid watching the show more curious about other things, French creators love to flex their culture and nerd-ness and also as Code Lyoko was funded by french public funds it can be branded "educational" more easily I guess.
EDIT: Same bits apply to Go, and Silat. We love take care of details and especially the Code Lyoko creators.
For the branding thing yeah it doesn't shock me, there is some rules but parody is very sacred in France and using another IP in a quoted way is very much allowed. I think it's generally more free because suing into oblivion is less an national sport than in the US.
That’s really interesting, yeah I knew very little about the Punic wars, or at least didn’t remember a lot, so I wasn’t sure if it was paralleling something. Do you live in France? I was wondering if cilat is popular there because I do not hear of anyone taking cilat in the US. Thanks for your comment!
Sissy keeps finding ways to get in on them, they really should give her a chance.
I would like that
30:42 Honestly, I think when it comes down to when things get bad she gets serious.
Now imagine if Sissy was a lyoko warrior - learning of the plight of aelita, the evil of X.A.N.A , and the burden the gang has to deal with balancing saving the world and being normal kids.
I feel like she would grow leaps and bounds and keep the attitude she has during all the X.A.N.A attacks.
Edit: ok yeah, that last part makes it abundantly clear that while she would be a good lyoko warrior she would squeal as soon as things go over the edge.
Maybe having Jim and sissy join would balance it out but, seems like an unnecessary risk for little to no reward.
I loved the show as a kid but could never follow the actual overarching plot due to missing many episodes here and there. I's great finally seeing it all summed-up by you and that it actually broke the status quo in multiple ways that I never noticed.
That's awesome to hear, thanks for checking it out! Yeah they definitely wanted to keep the overarching plot minimal enough that we could tune in randomly and still know what's going on, for better or worse
this is exactly what I need right now, thank you, love these retrospectives
Thank you for checking it out, should be a lot more in the future
Fun fact the veichles start out in this season and weapons they have get refined as the show goes on new things added all the time in this series, also the Kolossus in her is terrifying. Plus my favorite things about this series is it's constant lore expansion. I always assumed that when aelita couldn't constantly use the earth moving ability constantly because it cost hp
I’ve heard some other people say aelitas moves cost hp which is really interesting. I definitely love the lore too especially because a lot of it is very subtle
Yeah season 2 was when on my rewatch binge back in like 2019 i was blown away by how good the Lyoko sections looked still. I was also obsessed with Odd's new run animation lol. Sector 5 always got me hype as a kid whenever they went there.
Also the vehicles ruled
Yeah I think the 3D aged really well, I didn’t really appreciate it at the time
I think sissi having "random" bouts of compassion makes sense when you think about it. The guy she likes ulrich is incredibly honourable most of the time and always puts others especially yumi above himself, to her thats probably one of the few ways she can connect with him. Showing him she can be compassionate to try and gain his attention. So over all i think it's normal for her to do that stuff
I agree, I think the novel part about it is when sissi has a random act of kindness when others aren’t really around to impress, like she’s actually a good person deep down, or ulrich may be influencing her to have that compassion maybe
@@Colby2D true though I think all of them maybe having a bit of an effect, she wants to be more like yumi to get Ulrich's attention, wants to help Ulrich and he's clearly having a positive effect on her personality then you have odd who she's definitely in competition with outfits wise haha
@ odd has too much swag but sissi is definitely a close second haha
@@Colby2D he does haha I don't think sissi would win a competition with him I mean did you see the outfit he put yumi in? Even as a girl he's got style
I love how you’ve added pmm music to this video ❤ two of my favourite things together
Thank you for noticing; they’re definitely two of my favorites too!
I think I read somewhere that Aelita’s creativity power costs some life points (which she can regenerate while in a tower), plus she has to concentrate, which leaves her vulnerable to attack.
That makes a lot of sense given how rarely she uses it. I’ve been meaning to play the ds game, will probably do that and check out the live action show for an upcoming video
am really happy that there's someone still talking about the show, i hope you make more videos about code lyoko
OMG I'm so glad you've continued going through the show. I really enjoyed for videos on season one and this one was fantastic!! I can't wait to see more and more of the show. You do a great job of dissecting the tension and drama! This series has even gotten a friend and I to rewatch the show and show it to a few mutual friends as well~
That is so cool! Thanks so much for watching and sharing I really appreciate it
29:27 Hotel Dusk? I see you are a man of culture 👌
Thank you for noticing, it’s definitely time for a replay soon
Thank you so much for covering season 2. I can't wait to see your reaction to season 3. It's gonna be wild :D
That is cool😎 it’ll prob be sometime in November! Have some cool stuff planned for October
Man I can only imagine the whiplash of watching through all seasons back to back for the first time. Episode to episode, everything is always in flux from the animation to the pacing to the tone and it makes rewatching actually fun to try to pick out weird details
Definitely some times where I’m like “hey that animation was reused from 10 episodes ago” lol
40:57 my favorite part of this episode is that they leave it pretty open ended whether or not ghosts actually exist in the world since the most very much gives of the vibe of a cement overed moster when the legend that got Sissy down their talks about a guy who died via concrete. At peast that the impression i get
45:00 my understanding of this is that Lyoko is a sort of operating system almost; it allows the user(s) to interface with the supercomputer, and the towers represent different CPU cores within the physical computer part (or CPU groups or whatever). activating a tower allows the user to access a much more significant chunk of the supercomputer's processing power, but a security issue also allows bad actors/viruses (aka xana) to sneak out the metaphorical backdoor and access the broader network beyond the local access it has without any active towers.
that's how i always rationalized it, anyway. I don't think it gets super well explained iirc
Man I really forgot a lot of these threats where out there, man I need to watch the show again~
Second season is a great rewatch, highly recommend
@@Colby2D Oh for sure~
I mean if/when I rewatch it, It'll be a rewatch of the whole thing
The best thing about the fights in code lyoko is that a good percent of the time you get to see some cool tactics being put to use. Its one of the things that actually got me into tactics atyle games going into the future.
Season 2 was simply amazing and it really ramped things up to 11 with the plot and as I mentioned in your season 1 video, this was the season that got me hooked and made me acknowledge that I heavily misjudged the show during it's first season and that from there on it (as it was airing on Cartoon Network), that I would be sticking with it. It's hard to pick a favorite episode because there are so many good ones but I agree that the episode where Aelita literally was dying and had to keep being revived blew 14/15 year old me seeing a show aimed at children go that far, it was incredible and much appreciated that they took the chance to do this. I also liked the episode where Yumi's parents were considering moving back to Japan because of how hard it was for her father to find work, it was just so painfully relatable. The scene where her mother and father argue over their job searches, just man, relatable. And it also was a nice character moment for Yumi showing why family is so important to her because of the hardships that her's can have like. Like in the Picture day episode, we learn that her parents don't seem to have the best communication with each other, it's just something lol.
Also yeah, it was totally weird when they'd reference real life media properties like Spider Man or an actor like Bruce Willis, it kinda breaks the immersion a bit tbh but thankfully they didn't do it too much so it was easy to ignore lol.
Also Odd and Sissi meeting on a dating website, that is just all kinds of messed up in the sense that I remember dating websites back in the day and you had to be at least 18 to use them so it's crazy how they put in a plot like that in a kids show when they're like 13, like what? lmao.
And the episode where Xana brings in a fake Franz Hopper and the gang turns on Jeremy, I remember really not liking this episode at all when it aired but iupon multiple re-watches, I've come to appreciate it because at the end of the day they are all still kids and it's understandable why their emotions may get the better of them which the show has shown plenty of times and it's forgivable because again, they're kids. So pretty much agree with your sentiment here.
But finally, that season 2 finale man. I had mad chills and intense feeling during the whole episode up to the climax and the writers gave us viewers a curve ball that Xana, the big bad actually won, it got what it wanted. The ending scene where the gang is in the room and reassuring that they all will be there together to fight and not abandon Aelita still gives me chills every time I re-watch the show, that's when you know it's such a strong episode haha.
Also on Sissi, I think she's annoying but I think she's a good character because it makes sense why she is obnoxious and entitled because her father spoiled her but her also showing acts of kindness can also be attributed to her upbringing because while her father spoiled her, he's not a bad man and does try to keep the students safe in line (even if it can be seen as neglible to us the viewers as we follow the Lyoko warriors lol). So her being nuanced like this totally makes sense for her character.
Definitely a lot of good points! The sissi and odd ship is really funny, I know they never really push any romance in the show, but I do like the notion that they’re really compatible, and we know from the prequel odd finds her attractive at least. That would be the only thing I’d like to see more in the future is more connected plots and relationships episode to episode, that would even make a character like Sissi a lot more complex. But yeah the dating app part was weird especially because they’re teens, I chalk it up to being right around the big boom of the internet and stuff and the exploitation on apps and stuff probably wasn’t even considered, that, or they’re just pretending the characters are adults like how Yumi and ulrich always argue like an old married couple
@@Colby2D Yeah I think Odd and Sisi could've worked as a couple but I won't lie, I also like the confirmation of Odd being bisexual and if the show was more progressive, they would've had him explore it but that's thinking way too ahead.
I agree though it would've been nice if there were more connected plots than what we got (which was still nice don't get me wrong).
And yeah, I remember early 2000s websites was pretty wild and it's believable that someone like Odd and even Sissi would use it when they shouldn't have lol.
24:48 So there is a reason for this... or rather was a reason for this. During season 1, everytime aelita used her digital powers (called Creativity) she would lose half of her current life point count as recoil. This made using her abilities risky as going from 100 to 50 life points like that would put her in danger agaisnt some of the harder hitting monsters.
In season 2 however the series bible was changed and so was the mechanics to creativity. It no longer cut her life points and also xana wanted her alive for her memory, which makes her hesitence to use them even more confusing.
That’s a really cool note, the life points being cut makes sense, I don’t really remember it in season 1 but I like the idea that it costs life points and it’s really slow and leaves her vulnerable to use
"Suspended for missing school picture day." Whoa talk about a strict school 😅lol
I’ve never heard of something like this but it works well for the plot haha
8:25 Yumi also studies a Pencak Silat and fun fact her battle fans are actually a weapon used by Pencak Silat specialists or at least are based on ones.
@@skyslasher2297 that’s really cool, I wasn’t aware fans were used in any kind of Silat
Nothing to cheer up a disaster week as watching your review of a season of Code Lyoko with pizza. I am pretty hype for the next one ^^
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me to hear. Hope things go better for you soon
Jeremy never getting a 3d Lyoko design was something I hated so much as a kid, he was one of my favorite characters too
Adding the GBA Pokemon music to this, really does remind of the times of when It was airring.
Is that the song he's using towards the end? At around 50:27 it starts
Thank you, I definitely wanted to keep the music from the era somewhat consistent! And the song at 50:27 is National Park from Pokémon Heart Gold Soul Silver
@@Colby2D thank you, I was wondering why it sounds so familiar and nostalgic! Also please keep up the good work, I always look forward to your vids and listening to your point of views! 💙
It's mentioned a couple times in the show that returning to the past won't bring back anyone who dies, and I have to wonder how they learned that info.
I believe they say the time between the prequel and first episode is about a year, so it’d be interesting to see if something happened in that time or they read it somewhere
A similar question to that... how do they know what happens when falling into the Digital Sea? 🤔
@@King_Luigi The Digital Sea represents Lyoko's connection to the internet, and when data is sent through the internet it is first broken up into "packets." My theory is that Jeremy ran a simulation and discovered that if someone who had been virtualized was broken up into packets, they lose whatever part of their coding allows them to be devirtualized.
after you posted the first video i rewatched the entire series.
is really gud
That’s awesome to hear, I’m glad that video jogged the memory, I’m having a really great time watching, it really wasn’t a show I watched much at all ever as a kid and now I love it
Yeah honestly compare the time Xana impersonated Yumi in season 1 vs the xana kiss episode where actually gets the whole group to doubt each other and he is not instantly figured out.
I also liked the little exchange William had with Sissi at the pool. Her standing in for Yumi was pretty nice of her and I love that Yumi did reward her for it in the end.
I think with Sissie it goes to that one saying "people show who they really are in their last moments" (or however it goes) To where sure she's a constant foil but deep down she just wants to be accepted or something.
17:45 slight misconception here is that the transfer would leave Alieta's memory open to just be taken without the time consuming process that the Jellyfish takes. Not that it would ovewrite Yumi's memorys
Bro, this guy lives on my childhood.
Lol true
I believe XANA's best plan so far was turning off gravity. They're basically making these kids experience The Rapture XD
Been loving this retrospectives since I watched a lot of these shows as a kid ^^
If I was xana I would just be spamming that plan lol
I dont know if you will and I totally understand if you dont want to but I 'm sure I and a ton of other people would love for you to cover Code Lyoko: Evolution.
I mean, if he covered Xiaolin Chronicles...
I definitely plan to sometime, I’m wondering if it’d be worth it to cover the end of code lyoko still, if that would be wanted first
@@Colby2D I 'd be on board for the entirety of Code Lyoko first. Evolution would just be a bonus.
@@Colby2DAka the “sequel series” that killed the franchise(as of now though there are rumors of a revival); it failed financially, leading to MoonScoop’s bankruptcy, and the Code Lyoko IP being acquired by Média Communicatíons, otherwise known outside of France as Dargaud.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING GREAT CONTENT
Thank you for watching🙂 that is how I’m able to make it
The scyphozoa always freaked me out as a kid. It was just so messed up, the concept of it sucked the memories from peoples bodies- Even the jellyfish like appearance gave it an alien feel to me.
Jellyfish are honestly creepy enough for me already, taking my memories as opposed to a little sting is just that much worse
Maybe the reason why we don't see aelita doesn't use her powers more often because it probably runs on a strict time limit
Some comments have pointed out it takes her life points, I’ll have to look further into it
44:31 That's so true. It feels like we got blue-balled with Franz. And this was actually the closest we ever got to seeing him in the real world so it just seems like a big missed opportunity.
There's a tried & tested formula for characters like this. They get teased a bunch of times, then they appear in person and it's a big deal and then they stick around for the final chunk of the story, helping the heroes defeat the big bad. That's what happened in shows like Gravity Falls or Trollhunters.
And I think that's what they should've done here. I think Hopper should've been rescued and brought back to the real world around 10 episodes before the series finale and gotten loads of juicy interactions with the Lyoko Warriors. But especially Aelita & Jeremy.
Alas, that doesn't happen. And the Project Carthage lore also becomes irrelevant after Season 2.
Teasing Franz here was cool, but I just didn’t care because no one else cared, like that feels like one of the main components for the story after season 2 and it happened like it didn’t even matter,
i made the mistake of listening to the french original show and the voice actors are a MILLION times better. no one is annoying or sounds goofy
nicolas’s english voice is so bad that i can’t ever understand what he’s saying
I’m sure the French dub is better, but I really like the English cast. Jeremy kinda reminds me of bentley from sly cooper, like kind of a parody, but I do think it’s really interesting his voice actress voices both Jeremy and Aelita
I still go back and fourth between whether season 2 or 3 is the best season of the show. The writing was so solid in the middle chunk and all the characters got developed so well and in a realistic way. Though I’ll say the third is my favorite because Aelita actually got an offensive power.
That PDF File joke made me laugh a bit 😂
Thank you, I enjoyed making the xana mansion after the crimes it committed this season
Yes I have been waiting
Thank you Benny💙
One Wheel Motorcycle reminds of the wheel enemies from Kirby games
Love those guys
loved this show and can't wait for MUCHAAAA LUCHAAAAAAA
The only other character I’ve seen on a 1 wheeled motorcycle is the omega ranger from Power Rangers: SPD
Ulrichs motorbike always reminded me of the Kirby air ride motorcycles 🤣
I hardly ever checked out this aside from adverts I saw in the past and I'm agreeing with not just you but other YT reviewers who have similar opinions and thoughts and intriguing details etc..
Honestly the scene that always stuck with me as a kid was after the anti virus/black ooze was defeated XANA had the Lyoko Warriors in a compromising spot but instead of attacking the monsters just nod and walk off. I know its just the kids show status quo thing, but gives me "professionals have standards" vibe. Like XANA may be a homicidal computer program but he/she/it isn't without a bit of honor
For sure, there’s that part, or xana giving the blanket to Yumi and odd when they were freezing in the hostage negotiation, and I was also thinking whether the creatures in lyoko had more free will at all or if they were more just xana controlled 1 to 1
If I had a nickle for every show that was purely episodic in season one to then change to be story-driven and heavy on continuity in season 2.... Well that would be a ton of nickels
It would be haha, definitely a lot of requests to do this from networks like “hey if you want to tell a story, fine, but we need episodes for reruns first”
Spoilers, but to answer the question about the Carthage references, Lyoko was originally a secret cold war communications project ran by the Swiss government called Project Carthage. A reference to the smaller Carthage going up against the bigger and badder Roman (Soviet) empire. The passwords being similar to that makes sense.
The reason if I recall that Aelita doesn't use Creativity more is because it costs 50 hp to use so its a one time use skill. Writers probably write with that in mind or something.
I may be Mandela effect remembering if it was mentioned in the show since the wiki said that the line mentioning it got cut.
That’s pretty interesting I’ve heard some other people say it costs life points too, so I’m interested to see if it pops up more directly in season 3
Another Code Lyoko video out on the internet? LETS GOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
XANAs behaviors and logical faults, mistakes and monster design makes a loot more sense when you read the novels. They might not be fully canon, but it is clear the authors had a similar idea in mind of how XANA as an AI was trained.
Maybe someday I’ll talk about the novels. I feel like I’d probably like to go through and just read them on my own sometime. Is it supposed to be read after?
@Colby2D I actually liked them way more than I was expecting to, but yeah I'd say it's best to read them after you're finished with season 4. c:
Not sure if you're planning on covering the third season (I hope so at some point) but I feel like the two prequel episodes are worth keeping a mental note of as you go into the finale of season 3, just to keep in mind how the group acted as they were learning the ropes then, and how unfair they honestly were to a certain someone going into the finale.
I think that Odd is the second most powerful warrior right behind Althea , odd has flexibility and acrobatics of both Ulrich and Yumi plus he’s ability to see into the future .
I think you could argue he’s the most powerful just because so many situations find aelita trapped in a 1v1 she does nothing in, like with the scyphozoa, where we’ve seen odd take it out
I wonder what Sissi would look like virtualized.
I would guess a lot like Yumi model wise, weapon wise I’ve seen staff and I’ve seen bow and arrow, both seem cool. I’d love to see what Jim looks like virtualized
i gotta say, i find it so funny Sissy name gets censored on auto subtitles
I’ve never heard the nickname sissi before, it’s like that one boy matthias who always just calls her Elizabeth and she gets mad lol
@@Colby2D its like when i discovered Peggy is the nickname for Margaret
Today I have learned…
hell yeah, this'll be great up at work
Awesome to hear🙂