Episode Recaps

[Fau1tyL0gic]

Pick an episode. Describe what happened. Make it entertaining. 

Ideally, eventually we will have the whole series snarkily described.

Can range from drabble to a full play-by-play.

[Snickie]

Hope you don't mind me going out of order.
I may have some of the specs wrong since it's been awhile since I've seen this episode.  And for good reason.  (I dun' like it.)

Episode 50 - Contact

Jeremie's being totally unsuccessful and decides to take his friends' advice and take a break for what has to be the first time in the entire series except for Laughing Fit, where he's seen working on a miniature robot instead of glued to his computer working on his precious materialization programs.

So anyways, they go to Odd's movie thing, and Sissi thinks it's going to be all great and stuff, but then she gets shown up by some awesome yet really basic video editing on Odd's part.  She gets so angry that she has to get up and shut down the movie and proceed to attempt to tell Odd off only to be shocked and rendered entirely speechless.  Well, nothing immediately coherent anyway.

Sissi gets sent to the infirmary.  And somehow in the evening she gets her pajamas on because the next scene we see her in she's creeperishly in Jeremie's bedroom at like midnight and trying to talk to him and writing down nonsense.  Given how relatively useless she seems to be so far, I'm wondering who had the pleasure duty of dressing her and how her possessor felt about it.

And then Jim or whoever it is randomly poofs into existence to tear FraSissi away from her writing because he'll get a slap on the wrist if she wanders around campus because XANA forbid she accomplish her purpose so that she can return back to normal.  But we'll get to that.

The next morning she goes to the hospital while Jeremie scans the scribble into the supercomputer to interpret it.  Then Yumi goes to the hospital to break her out when XANA attacks and possesses the nurse who knows martial arts and sends her into a mad rage and attacks Sissi.  And all Sissi does is lay there and scream.  So Yumi gets her out with our friend Hulk nurse speeding behind her in an ambulance.  But she only drives slow enough so that she doesn't hit the kids.  It's not like XANA to be so considerate for the lives of his enemies, but perhaps he does have a heart.  Even if it's just a <3 in his coding.

Meanwhile on Lyoko Ulrich and Aelita are fighting megatanks at this white tower.  By the way, before this point did anybody even notice or care about the deactivated tower color?  Did anybody notice it was blue and not white before?  Because I sure didn't.  Anyway, the pathway Ulrich and Aelita were on somehow gets infinitely longer because that scene takes for freaking ever to reel.

Jeremie announces an activated tower, which Aelita should've been able to detect herself through the pulsations that were so prominent in season 1.  And she runs off with Ulrich's bike to go deactivate it even after Jeremie said no.  I mean, it's just Jeremie being a paranoid freak (like how my mom is whenever I'm driving) as usual and it's not like there's a scyphozoa out there that wants to steal her memories and that she's only ever had the brains to escape from it on her own once in this entire season.  And it's not like she can't just go "HULK AELITA SMASH!" on any of the other monsters that are probably guarding that tower.  Nope, common sense says she will be perfectly fine all on her own.

So anyways, after they defeat Hulk Nurse woman for a time Sissi goes downstairs and types a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo nonsense into the supercalculator for like ever.  But somehow Yumi ends up fighting Hulk Nurse again, who seems to enjoy grabbing at Yumi's shirt and bra to throw her around.  And, against all odds, Aelita's been captured by the scyphozoa.  What do you know, there is a scyphozoa out there that wants to steal her memories!

Jeremie steals the keyboard back from Sissi to virtualize Odd to save Aelita because Ulrich's still playing with the megatanks.  And he saves the day, of course, and then the mantas set up some flying mines around the tower which they fly uselessly around because it makes far too much sense to fly under them and just let her deactivate the tower sooner.  They won't let the mines explode over Aelita; they need her memories.  But like I said.  That makes too much sense.

Upstairs, Yumi's taking a beating and Sissi's still typing typing typing.  But that's about the end because there are now three more MegaTanks that want to play with Ulrich, and Ulrich's not so sure he has enough energy to play with all three of them fresh-faced and bright-eyed.  These kids are bullies, too; they broke his sword and devirtualized him!  Then they destroy the tower and Sissi slumps over the keyboard. Aelita finally deactivates the tower too, and the nurse passes out too just before she delivers the fatal blow.

Jeremie doesn't do a return to the past, as we see, because the next thing we see is all of them in his room in what's probably mid-afternoon.  Ulrich's helping to bandage some of Yumi's cuts and scrapes, and Sissi, back to normal, is less than happy about the situation.  Everything else seems to be hunky dory, though.  Nobody questions why some kids had broken out a patient, or why an ambulance is sitting broken in an abandoned factory (or how it was removed without a trace), or why Former Hulk Nurse tried to terrorize and kill a patient, or why Yumi is so beat up, because these just happen all the time and there's nothing abnormal about all of this.

And then finally-- finally-- FINALLY we get to learn what was meant on the paper and the coding and the weird messed up speech.  We spend this entire episode to learn that "I am Franz Hopper.  I can help.  I want to enter into contact with you."  Which is just awesome and totally not a waste of twenty-one minutes of our time and totally doesn't make me doubt Jeremie's intelligence level and the calculating capacity of the supercomputer at all. Nope, not one bit.

I think this is the best and most realistic episode in the entire series, don't you?

[Fau1tyL0gic]

Out of order is perfectly fine.

Picking episodes you don't care for is excellent.

Very entertaining, Snickie.

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