Deadcoder's Reviews: Lost at Sea
Thanks to some personal matters, this week has been extremely depressing for me. Consequently, so I felt like watching something depressing. And what could be better than one of the most depressing episodes of Code Lyoko, a show that routinely shows a 12 year old committing suicide? This episode will be graded from 0 to 10, where 10 would be David Carayon promising to retire, and 0 being the same from Sophie Decroisette.
The titlecard says we have some guest writers, which means the episode will be interesting filler "because the guest writers generally made the interesting episodes that weren't Laurent Turner, and only Bruno Regeste and Sophie Decroisette were allowed to actually work on the plot", and we have Paul Beneteau and Alain le Do…
Deadcoder's Reviews: Is anybody out there?
When you truly love something or someone, you don't deny their flaws. That would be loving a fantasy, not the true thing or person. True love involves knowing all of the flaws present in something or someone, and love without denial. I love Code Lyoko, but when I saw this episode, I HATED IT. It was boring and went nowhere slowly. But I love Code Lyoko, so I wanted to give this episode a second chance, so I'm reviewing "Is Anybody Out There?"
Right at the beginning, we can tell this episode will be filler. It's made by Jean-Rémi François and Bruno Merle; so we know this will be filler. There's nothing wrong with filler. Jeri Ryan is mostly filler, and she's wonderful, so I'm going into this with hope. We start with Sissi reading the Kadic g…
Deadcoder's Reviews: Saint Valentine's Day
Many people have an episode they like, even though it's hated by the general population. This is true of everyone in the Code Lyoko fandom, and most fandoms in general "for Star Trek, these people are called niners." Many people think that "Saint Valentine's Day" was kind of stupid, but I loved it, and remember the very first time I saw it "I was in elementary school, and I'm in college now." Is the episode silly? Yes, but I love it anyway. So I may be biased, but I will do my best to review Saint Valentine's Day.
Right off the bat, we can tell the episode is going to be interesting, because it's written by Laurent Turner. For those who aren't obsessive and lonely, Laurent Turner wrote a reasonable number of episodes, which tended to break …
Deacoder's Reviews: The Key
I'm really depressed because I think I'm going to fail statistics. Since I'm between assignments and in despair, I decided to review a really depressing episode. In that vein, I give you a review of "The Key".
This episode is obviously interesting for two reasons: 1 the tower in the titlecard isn't red, and 2, the writers are Bruno Regeste and Sophie Decroisette, the two head writers, so you know this episode is critical to the storyline. The episode starts with everyone except Jeremie arriving in the lab, to see Jeremie, who marathoned "Franz Hopper's Diary". Jeremie's line "I spent the whole night reading Franz Hopper's diary" sounds like something a fanfic reader would say. We get infodumping from Waldo Schaeffer, as he explains why he m…
Deadcoder's Reviews: X.A.N.A.'s Kiss
One of the main reasons that Code Lyoko succeeded was because of a good cast, and good resulting character drama. It would make sense in theory to build an episode around a strength of the series, which is how X.A.N.A.'s Kiss came to be. Theory and reality can vary though. This review will evaluate that, as part of User:Alex531's request for this episode, which I am doing as a farewell gift to our wiki's former leader.
X.A.N.A.'s Kiss starts off with Jeremie, Odd, and Ulrich walking down the dorm hall, with obvious bulging from Ulrich. This episode has about as much subtlety as Chernobyl, but it's decent enough to warn you in a pleasurable way. I give the episode +1 point, because manners matter. They're talking about the list of girls that…