S4 Episode 8: Replika

[Kamekai offline]

just some guy that enjoys coca-cola.

[Reploid CB]

The glaring problem with this episode (and it will probably carry over into the rest of the season) is that Aelita is too uber-powerful. From her Energy Field shots that rarely (if ever) miss, it has expanded into larger shots, wings, and now a massive shield that can withstand some brutal punishment. I mean, the wings are already highlighting the Messiah nature of her character as the savior of Lyoko, but also giving her a boatload of powers besides her singing/territory manipulation seems overkill.

Personally, I'm running with the theory that the giant honeycomb shield (as I call it) is what happens when she uses her territory manipulation in the Forest region. We've seen her do giant shields before: both in the Ice sector, and the Desert. And judging by her actions beforehand, that was the territory manipulation rather than anything independent. Who knows? Maybe that's what happens for the Forest; a honeycomb is a "nature" shape anyway (beehives anyone? xD ).

[Carth]

I agree- I heard the telltale singing before it went up. Though it didn't look much like the Forest- it was orange, for one thing. A...Guardian? *laughs hysterically*

[JesusFreak offline]

Wow, that's a good idea. I, I hadn't thought about that....

[sylentnyte offline]

So William's Scrappy? Overzealous, then evil...
The Skid's the Mystery Machine...
Who's Jeremie?

Old man Jenkins prehaps?
Nah, that would fit Franz Hopper more...*ponders*

[TB3]

So William's Scrappy? Overzealous, then evil...
The Skid's the Mystery Machine...
Who's Jeremie?

Old man Jenkins prehaps?
Nah, that would fit Franz Hopper more...*ponders*

(rolls on floor laughing, wipes tears from eyes)

Oh man, you guys crack me up!

[zex marquise offline]

I'd say Jeremie is more Daphne than Aelita. But what about Battle Angel Aelita? I can't think of any other Scooby characters.

[Carth]

It's 'Alita', actually. But who cares. I love that series so much. Aelita's Alita, obviously...Daisuke is Jeremie to a T... Hugo could be like Odd...and I haven't read any farther than the first two books.

Wee, we're getting off-topic.

[zex marquise offline]

Isn't it fun? Yeah, I know it's spelled "Alita", but it was a joke. Jeremie is also a lot like Mr. Universe from Serenity. "News? There is no news. Only the truth of the signal." Sorry. Back on the topic of episode discussion. I'm gonna go look for it now on Youtube. *hops out of chair, runs out the door, gets in car and drives away*

[Kamekai offline]

Teklinks has it on Lyoko on Demand, and it has a good buffer rate. didn't once pause on me

[zex marquise offline]

*runs back in, plops down into chair* Mmmm comfy chair. Okay, thanks Kamekai, I'll head over there and check it out. It was about time I registered at Teklinks anyways. I couldn't find it on youtube, but I did find this: Code Lyoko: OWA Who's the world's biggest bad*ss? Zechs, Sephiroth, Smith, Megatron? No. It's... Jeremie? I'm laughing my head off at how well this song fits the scenes.

[Kamekai offline]

not a bad vid.

[Taelia offline]

I love Herve screaming and saying "I'M AFRAID OF HEIGHTS!!". But how can THAT be if he climbed the rock wall in gym class once?

[ambitiouslove offline]

I forgot that Odd and Aelita were supposed to be cousins, but... seems like the show forgot about that, too, maybe lol
Jeremie looked so annoyed at Odd's secret plan. I thought that was pretty funny xD
I really like how Aelita's attitude came out in this episode. She sounds so... haughty princess-like when she's angry
Hmm... I don't really think that Aelita is too strong or overpowered. I think she has to be since she seems like the weakest (defense-wise) of the bunch. Plus she went awhile in the series not having ANYthing... I think she kind of deserves a bit of power.. and apparently Jeremie thinks so too, since he's helping code everything for her lol
I voted 9/10 because we got to see Aelita in a different light, and I really liked that.

[Aurabolt offline]

*Takes deep breaths* Relax, Aura. Jeremie's hypothetically gotten more kisses, and one kiss doesn't change that....after all, Odd is gay by all twists of the imagination. This kiss means nothing. Hell, most of Season 4 revolves around J/A....Everything is fine...

Moonscoop is at strike one. Let's hope they don't go strike two and three. Overall, good action scenes and pro-Jeremie acting, but the thing I'd rather not talk about at the moment is the real issue here. If it comes up again, I think I know of several people including myself who will boycott the show, exactly like how I plan to burn a copy of HP Book 7 for the same reason.

Overall, a 6/10. Good in places, not good in specific others....I seriously hope Jeremie is ok with what happened. I wouldn't be in his shoes, although I wouldn't say anything either.

[MY85 offline]

The glaring problem with this episode (and it will probably carry over into the rest of the season) is that Aelita is too uber-powerful.

So how long did it took for you to see Aelita's Lyoko powers are pretty much overkill? The wings crossed the line for me. It's not that she sucks as a warrior, but too much of Aelita kicking *ss is a bit sickening.

Moonscoop is at strike one.

Nope, they already had the first strike with Season 3. Regardless of the number of episodes, the season was quite sucky.

Question: Did they treated William like garbage in this episode or not?

[Lyoko Wario offline]

One day and all these replies? Bah! Next time, be nice and wait for me to show up, won't you now! But anyway, I really enjoyed this episode. One of the best so far, and gets a 10/10 from me. But it did kind of bite me that Odd and Aelita have been pretending to be cousins, and then Herb and Nicolas catch them smooching and don't think it's weird at all... do you think the writers momentarily forgot about the cousin charade, since it hasn't been mentioned in such a while, or is this taken to be one of those Edgar Allan Poe situations? Anyway, I guess since we know Odd and Aelita are not related, we shouldn't really care much about that. Doesn't take away from the glory of the eppie.

You know, I'm starting to get used to Aelita's "conservative" dress...

May the heavens spare my soul...

[Kamekai offline]

yeah, I'm gettin around with it, too. But Jeremie's striped pants? still no.

[Malkmusian offline]

It's good, but it leads up to translation and somebody's going to find out about Lyoko and Jeremy can't stop them (unless he uses RTTP, that big jerk. What's wrong with extracting Aelita from Lyoko? Why did the want her? What's wrong with Lyoko?). My guess is basically Nicholas or Jim Morales.

Overall score: 10/10 (I'm a part-time OxA fan, but mainly a WxA and NxA fan)

[Kamekai offline]

NxA.

That's a new one for me.

[Malkmusian offline]

NxA.

That's a new one for me.

That's my other pairing that I'm going to write in my sequel fanfiction.

(slaps self, then writes)

[Arcangel613 offline]

1. Yumi and Ulrich pull a 'Daphne and Fred'

That was one of the first things that came to mind when they just kinda ran off together in the replika, and if thats the case then Aelita can be velma and Odd and Kiwi can be Shaggy and scooby. Which is kinda funny when you think about it cause it sorta matches their personalities...sorta.

So William's Scrappy? Overzealous, then evil...
The Skid's the Mystery Machine...
Who's Jeremie?

If your a fan of the live action scooby Doo movie (the first one) Jer can be that guy that Velma dated and then was never mentioned again in the second movie cause she found a new boy toy and...Ya know, now that I think about it, Velma's a bit of a playa aien't she?

[AmericanLyokoTeam offline]

[take my rant as you will, I've always been one of the more critical reviewers around these parts]

Replika suffers, like many Lyoko episodes with promiseing titles and concepts, from giving me expectations too high. I was expecting a whole array of mysteries to be laid out before me, giving me things to ponder on for the rest of the season as they were slowly worked out. Unfortunately it delivered little we didn't already know. Most of us knew what the Sphere meant, the few who didn't guessed correctly.

Odd and Aeilta fighting was great for about two scenes, then it just became 'why won't they shut up like real people would.' It was that kind of over the top thing you only see when it's painfully obvious they're just saying "We''re characters fighting on a show." The not talking and the resolution though, those parts were handled better. Maybe it was due to the chronic over quick second half pacing from this season, but they didn't have too little or too much attention paid to them then.

The plot was... well it wasn't much of what I was expecting. Finding the replika, checking it out, took all of 30 seconds. It set up future episodes, but really there was a lot of nothing occuring here. William and XANA monsters attacking them with no real danger beyond needing the Skid as a link back. I wanted a little more out of this one at least.

Nicholas got a little cooler in this ep: he's simple, but darnit, he's likeable. Herve is still captain Weenie of the Dork Patrol, and the show is doing a good job of making me hate him every step of the way. Sissi too apperently, for all 20 seconds she was involved here. Good on Odd and Aelita for dispelling rumor too.

Speaking of which, boy this ep was a real chance for the OxA folks to reload their cannons and have ammo to support their ship. I'm a bit of a JxA purist, so it earned a little sigh from me, but I won't penalize it for this when there are so much more legitimite faults.

Really what else can you say. I can see all the threads they put forth and tied together pretty well, it just managed to have rather slow, overdone Earth driven character stuff, and not much happening on the Lyoko side of things when exploring a really promiseing concept.

In the end I (for the thrid straight week) have to give it a 6/10.

[zex marquise offline]

[take my rant as you will, I've always been one of the more critical reviewers around these parts]

Replika suffers, like many Lyoko episodes with promiseing titles and concepts, from giving me expectations too high. I was expecting a whole array of mysteries to be laid out before me, giving me things to ponder on for the rest of the season as they were slowly worked out. Unfortunately it delivered little we didn't already know. Most of us knew what the Sphere meant, the few who didn't guessed correctly.

Odd and Aeilta fighting was great for about two scenes, then it just became 'why won't they shut up like real people would.' It was that kind of over the top thing you only see when it's painfully obvious they're just saying "We''re characters fighting on a show." The not talking and the resolution though, those parts were handled better. Maybe it was due to the chronic over quick second half pacing from this season, but they didn't have too little or too much attention paid to them then.

The plot was... well it wasn't much of what I was expecting. Finding the replika, checking it out, took all of 30 seconds. It set up future episodes, but really there was a lot of nothing occuring here. William and XANA monsters attacking them with no real danger beyond needing the Skid as a link back. I wanted a little more out of this one at least.

Nicholas got a little cooler in this ep: he's simple, but darnit, he's likeable. Herve is still captain Weenie of the Dork Patrol, and the show is doing a good job of making me hate him every step of the way. Sissi too apperently, for all 20 seconds she was involved here. Good on Odd and Aelita for dispelling rumor too.

Speaking of which, boy this ep was a real chance for the OxA folks to reload their cannons and have ammo to support their ship. I'm a bit of a JxA purist, so it earned a little sigh from me, but I won't penalize it for this when there are so much more legitimite faults.

Really what else can you say. I can see all the threads they put forth and tied together pretty well, it just managed to have rather slow, overdone Earth driven character stuff, and not much happening on the Lyoko side of things when exploring a really promiseing concept.

In the end I (for the thrid straight week) have to give it a 6/10.

I liked your rant. It's always good to have someone take the side of pragmatism and assess an episode's quality.

[Stonecreek]

The glaring problem with this episode (and it will probably carry over into the rest of the season) is that Aelita is too uber-powerful.

So how long did it took for you to see Aelita's Lyoko powers are pretty much overkill? The wings crossed the line for me. It's not that she sucks as a warrior, but too much of Aelita kicking *ss is a bit sickening.

Nah, but it just seemed like too much, and way too convinient in this episode. I do like Gravity Channel's theory on this page about her shield in the Forest sector, though. It is a kid's show, and there will be discrepancies like one character who could wipe all the others out no sweat.