Preston Ward Condra Watches Code Lyoko

by Preston Ward Condra

I binge watch through the entire series of Code Lyoko. Aside from seeing 1-2 episodes, I'm going in completely blind to this series. It's a show, I would never see anyone say anything good or bad about at all. I'm confused to as to whether or not, it's an anime or a cartoon. Cartoon Network never even aired the finale back in 2007. A smorgasbord of a project. Let's do this.

91. Episode 82: Distant Memory

Episode 82 - Distant Memory

Aelita gets a nightmare of her parents running away from her in the snow.

Yumi: Why are you still having nightmares?

That makes two of us.

It's winter break at the school. Odd, Ulrich and Jeremy have to visit their parents.

I guess Yumi lives so close to the school, that she doesn't have to go anywhere.

Ulrich's Dad: And you are still hanging around with those good for nothings.

Okay stoic character that was shown in 3 episodes tops.

Aelita is left alone on campus in her doom.

Do they even allow...never mind.

Aelita suddenly receives an e-mail from Franz Hopper, her father.

Franz tells her to go to Lyoko. (Oh, surely this is a trap.)

Aelita heads to Lyoko all on her own.

Aelita find herself in the snowy cottage, she used to live in.

Her father is playing the piano.

Yumi starts to get worried, Jeremy gets the sudden urge to head back, and his father doesn't mind, turning the car around, and postponing the expedition with his son.

Odd and Ulrich cancel plans and head back to the hideout. Meh.

Aelita suspects something's up with her dad.

Aelita asks him where her mother is at.

Yeah, Aelita should've not had come here in the first place.

Odd, Ulrich and Yumi arrive in Lyoko.

Aelita manages to escape the snowy cottage, all on foot and all on her own. At least she's breaking the generic "damsel in distress" stereotype.

William attacks our heroes as Aelita makes her getaway.

A pink bubble (quite literally) suddenly appears out of the digital sea and floats adrift in the air.

Jeremy scans it. It's Franz Hopper inside that pink bubble.

William tries to destroy it and the bubble looks pretty banged up.

Look I can't tell how a floating bubble is being damaged.

William continues to damage it, as the bubble quickly hops back into the digital sea.

Everyone heads back to earth.

Come to find out, Jeremy tells the group that Franz Hopper is still alive, is real and left Aelita on her own on purpose, more or less to get away from Xana.

End episode.

Overall Rating - 5/10 - If this wasn't a "transitional" episode then I don't know what is. I'm just going to give this a 5/10 rating and move on.