Weapon for Aelita!

[LadyLucy offline]

*falls over laughing and pounds floor with fist, still laughing*

[JeremieCompNerd offline]

Sick 'im, boy!
You thought that was funny, check out her new pet/weapon!

[LadyLucy offline]

Sick 'im, boy!
You thought that was funny, check out her new pet/weapon!

I'm not sure I get it...

[JeremieCompNerd offline]

It's a bobomb from Mario.

[LadyLucy offline]

Oh!! I get it!!

[Akito offline]

*notes the Bob-Bom*
One time use- built to be expendable.

[Lyoko SA80 offline]

I think moonscoop / antefilm have lost the code lyoko sprit .one fireballs out of hands or everywhere means pure .Looking at aeltia well I don't want to know what she been on since season 2 finish .I soo disapointted with the final destion .

[Vora Lyoko offline]

CodeLyoko never looses it's spirit. Unless it turns into something like "Teenage Robot" My sister loves that show. Now she hates it.....and I mean HATES IT.

[LadyLucy offline]

Never heard of it.
I agree though. C.L. has too much spirit just to give up...I like Aelita's power. It fits her. I don't care if she's human, she's still a magical being in Lyoko. She's the only elf. She still is contect to that world in a way the others arn't. She's lived there, sung there, fought there, way before the gang came around. She's fallen in love there, as well. THe others can't say that. She'll always be, in some way, Aelita of Lyoko. Not Aelita Hopper, or Aelita Stones. Aelita of Lyoko.
I"ll shut up now..

[Movie-Man offline]

Well in other words, she's like the Princess of Lyoko.

[TB3]

Well in other words, she's like the Princess of Lyoko.

That's a techy subject - many have actually tried to apply the 'Princess' concept and taken it too far - stating the concept of 'The Lyokan Monarchy' as fact, which it isn't.

Aelita's new ability is quite cool in the new season, but aside from their appearance are no different to lazer arrows, samurai katanas or tessen fans - please trust me on this, they are in no way 'magical'.

Code Lyoko is a show about Science-Fiction and normal people not Elf-Princesses and jaded concepts like Magic and Destiny.

[Movie-Man offline]

Well in other words, she's like the Princess of Lyoko.

That's a techy subject - many have actually tried to apply the 'Princess' concept and taken it too far - stating the concept of 'The Lyokan Monarchy' as fact, which it isn't.

Aelita's new ability is quite cool in the new season, but aside from their appearance are no different to lazer arrows, samurai katanas or tessen fans - please trust me on this, they are in no way 'magical'.

Code Lyoko is a show about Science-Fiction and normal people not Elf-Princesses and jaded concepts like Magic and Destiny.

Well it is a Sci-Fi/Action show but it does have its Fantasy elements but it's not literally Fantasy but you're right.

[TB3]

I rationalise it as this:

Magic and Fantasy are only used in the imagery i.e. the Lyoko outifts and style of their abilities - as the Garage Kids press release put it - 'the imagery and poetry of Japanese anime'

That imagery aside, the show is grounded firmly in reality - in fact one of LTT's discoveries (which we passed onto Jerome - who is a major sci-fi fan) was that everything in the show that is different to our world (with the exception of the existance of Kadic and the kids etc), boils down to two inventions/discoveries Franz Hopper had to make - and then everything fantastical flows from those discoveries.

[Movie-Man offline]

I rationalise it as this:

Magic and Fantasy are only used in the imagery i.e. the Lyoko outifts and style of their abilities - as the Garage Kids press release put it - 'the imagery and poetry of Japanese anime'

That imagery aside, the show is grounded firmly in reality - in fact one of LTT's discoveries (which we passed onto Jerome - who is a major sci-fi fan) was that everything in the show that is different to our world (with the exception of the existance of Kadic and the kids etc), boils down to two inventions/discoveries Franz Hopper had to make - and then everything fantastical flows from those discoveries.

Ok good point there, you're certianly right about that.

[LadyLucy offline]

Well in other words, she's like the Princess of Lyoko.

That's a techy subject - many have actually tried to apply the 'Princess' concept and taken it too far - stating the concept of 'The Lyokan Monarchy' as fact, which it isn't.

Aelita's new ability is quite cool in the new season, but aside from their appearance are no different to lazer arrows, samurai katanas or tessen fans - please trust me on this, they are in no way 'magical'.

Code Lyoko is a show about Science-Fiction and normal people not Elf-Princesses and jaded concepts like Magic and Destiny.

Oh, you're no fun...

[Sithking Zero offline]

Well in other words, she's like the Princess of Lyoko.

That's a techy subject - many have actually tried to apply the 'Princess' concept and taken it too far - stating the concept of 'The Lyokan Monarchy' as fact, which it isn't.

Aelita's new ability is quite cool in the new season, but aside from their appearance are no different to lazer arrows, samurai katanas or tessen fans - please trust me on this, they are in no way 'magical'.

Code Lyoko is a show about Science-Fiction and normal people not Elf-Princesses and jaded concepts like Magic and Destiny.

Oh, you're no fun...

Yet TB3 does have a point.

[LadyLucy offline]

NO FUN!!!

[Akito offline]

Well, TB3 stated an excellent point. The fantasy in Code LYOKO does not refer to Fairly Tale-style fantasy, consisting of those you see being arrested in Shrek. Therefore, the term "princess" of lyoko is otherwise meaningless.

Lyoko is a virtual world that supposedly might attempt to create virtual concepts of magic and such. But only in Lyoko, not on Earth. So it's not really "magic."

[Movie-Man offline]

Well, TB3 stated an excellent point. The fantasy in Code LYOKO does not refer to Fairly Tale-style fantasy, consisting of those you see being arrested in Shrek. Therefore, the term "princess" of lyoko is otherwise meaningless.

Lyoko is a virtual world that supposedly might attempt to create virtual concepts of magic and such. But only in Lyoko, not on Earth. So it's not really "magic."

You got me there but I didn't mean Aelita is literally the Princess of Lyoko, I'm saying that in a non-literal way after Franz did say he and Aelita are the absolute "Masters of Lyoko."

[LadyLucy offline]

Yeah!! After all, they made it!!

[JeremieCompNerd offline]

No, he made it. She had no clue, because she was just a little kid.
This is way off topic though. This should be about Aelita's WEAPON, not her official title.

[LadyLucy offline]

Good. Finally I can have fun again. To me, Aelita's power is magic. Remeber Odd in amnesia? When Ulrich asked how they'd get out of Lyoko, Odd just goes "Magic. Watch."
See? it's magic!! HA!!! I know, you guys are right, but I like the hint of mystery and all. It's cool. I'm a romantic with a huge imagnation, so I"m always gonna go by the whole Aelita-magic thing.
Her power ball rules. PINKY BALL OF DOOMY DOOM!!!!

[Akito offline]

Well, TB3 stated an excellent point. The fantasy in Code LYOKO does not refer to Fairly Tale-style fantasy, consisting of those you see being arrested in Shrek. Therefore, the term "princess" of lyoko is otherwise meaningless.

Lyoko is a virtual world that supposedly might attempt to create virtual concepts of magic and such. But only in Lyoko, not on Earth. So it's not really "magic."

You got me there but I didn't mean Aelita is literally the Princess of Lyoko, I'm saying that in a non-literal way after Franz did say he and Aelita are the absolute "Masters of Lyoko."

Yeah, I realize that. But I was speaking about the general public being obsessed with making some hige monarchy for Lyoko as though they were literal terms.

[TB3]

I don't mind the 'magic' imagery of Lyoko - it's a virtual reality, so it can behave by it's own rules.

What I don't like is where people take this too far i.e. take a look at some fanfictions I read:

1. In one story, a fourth scanner 'magically' appaeared out of nowhere because it was someone's 'destiny' to join the group.

2. A smiliar thing happened when the team got marked 'magically' with glowing sigils on their hands marking them as the predestined 'Guardians of Lyoko'

The frustrating thing I find is that so many people buy into this, and also that the 'truth' is far more wonderful and fantastical than pulling 'magic' out of the hat to explain everything away - that Franz developed the tech under a mysterious organisation, betrayed them, and then spent seven years writing the software to defeat them, having also invented the supercomputer, scanners and discovered time-travel along the way.

I mean magic is all right for Harry Potter and all, but CL is to me a show set in REALITY - why else did I make LTT if not to drive home the fact that it's all science based - and the episodes of S3 that I saw also support this.

As for the 'Absolute Master' comment which many have used to justify the 'monarchy' concept, let's not forget that Franz was going a bit loopy after seven years of 'June 6th 1994s' and was 99% likely to have been making a grandiose metaphorical statement to wrap up his video-diary.

Just my thoughts, not directed against anyone here but I just needed to vent a lot of frustration that's been accumulating on this issue for months.

And for the record, you should have seen TL, Osiris's and my faces when Aelita suddenly began DESTROYING monsters with her attack in the episode we saw in the recording session - I mean, suddenly she'd turned into a total bad@$$ - trust me when I say that anyone who claims Aelita is weak and useless is gonna have that rammed back into their faces

[knifey offline]

In one story, a fourth scanner 'magically' appaeared out of nowhere because it was someone's 'destiny' to join the group.

Did this person happen to be a female OC?

The frustrating thing I find is that so many people buy into this, and also that the <b>'truth' is far more wonderful and fantastical than pulling 'magic' out of the hat to explain everything away</b> - that Franz developed the tech under a mysterious organisation, betrayed them, and then spent seven years writing the software to defeat them, having also invented the supercomputer, scanners and discovered time-travel along the way.

Noobs like things like that, FF.net is infested with that. They'll prefer easy explanations like magic (which I'm not very fond of myself, FYI) then more complex explanations like science and technology.

SPOILER IN TINY FONT!
I like aelita's weapon now, it suits her well.

I'd post my thoughts about it more now but I have school. See ya!