....Albeit milder,but like the Star Trek movie and their infamous dilemma,the odd seasons have a way of being vastly inferior to the even seasons,although I can't say much about the 4th yet,but I have heard it is better
So starting with first season,..it too suffers from being a little slow paced and a helluva alotta' Early Installment Weirdness. Supposedly Aelita was supposed to be a kickass character and there were supposed to be a lot of diverse characters and Xana was supposed to be this ominpotent HAL-esque character. Instead Aelita was just The Load who literally couldn't do much of anything herself,almost to [[Super Mario Bros. Princess Peach]] levels,sure she could create walls and stop XANA,but only the cost of everything else being handed to her. And except for Odd,all the characters are introverts,of The Phlegmatic type,Jeremie helps by being smart though and developing. Then finally every episode is pretty much just "XANA posseses X,stop X" with a Reset Button to end it.
In contrast,the second season really is like The Wrath Of Khan,even for the eye does it improve. This is where Aelita starts to come into her own,XANA starts to become The Chessmaster and the character interactions start to really take off,sometimes it doesn't even have the Reset Button. It even ends with The Bad Guy Wins. It also introduced William,as a Foil and dare I say it he's definitely a better character than Ulrich,but he got almost no time
And then comes the third season which like The Search For Spock is appropriately worse than the second,but miles ahead of the first. The character interactions go back down,something bad happens to Jeremie's voice,and Odd gets Flanderized,but Aelita finally becomes a full on Action Girl and the plot thickens,still the return of the Reset Button and predictable plots are egregious and it gets resolved too quickly
Now for the general Pros and Cons
Odd,Aelita,William and Jeremie are great characters
The UST between Ulrich and Yumi kept the first season afloat and developed William
The first 7/8,Very Star Trek Movie Like
Code Lyoko
Year:2003-2007
Grade:B-
....Albeit milder,but like the Star Trek movie and their infamous dilemma,the odd seasons have a way of being vastly inferior to the even seasons,although I can't say much about the 4th yet,but I have heard it is better
So starting with first season,..it too suffers from being a little slow paced and a helluva alotta' Early Installment Weirdness. Supposedly Aelita was supposed to be a kickass character and there were supposed to be a lot of diverse characters and Xana was supposed to be this ominpotent HAL-esque character. Instead Aelita was just The Load who literally couldn't do much of anything herself,almost to [[Super Mario Bros. Princess Peach]] levels,sure she could create walls and stop XANA,but only the cost of everything else being handed to her. And except for Odd,all the characters are introverts,of The Phlegmatic type,Jeremie helps by being smart though and developing. Then finally every episode is pretty much just "XANA posseses X,stop X" with a Reset Button to end it.
In contrast,the second season really is like The Wrath Of Khan,even for the eye does it improve. This is where Aelita starts to come into her own,XANA starts to become The Chessmaster and the character interactions start to really take off,sometimes it doesn't even have the Reset Button. It even ends with The Bad Guy Wins. It also introduced William,as a Foil and dare I say it he's definitely a better character than Ulrich,but he got almost no time
And then comes the third season which like The Search For Spock is appropriately worse than the second,but miles ahead of the first. The character interactions go back down,something bad happens to Jeremie's voice,and Odd gets Flanderized,but Aelita finally becomes a full on Action Girl and the plot thickens,still the return of the Reset Button and predictable plots are egregious and it gets resolved too quickly
Now for the general Pros and Cons
- Odd,Aelita,William and Jeremie are great characters
- The UST between Ulrich and Yumi kept the first season afloat and developed William
- Great animation and writing
- Decent plot
- Sissi's and Jim's Butt Monkey status and Hidden Depths help a lot
- Sissi and Jim are hindrances most of the time - The UST should've resolved - Reset Button abuse - Unmemorable support characters