Code Lyoko S3 E5

## Plot

After those last two disasters, this next episode, "Aelita", is absolutely amazing. It's great even if you don't compare it to anything. Aelita keeps having nightmares despite having recovered her memory. This actually makes sense, or at least it does to me. I never once thought that getting her memory back would make the nightmares stop. Who knows? Maybe like Aisha from season 2 of Winx Club, Elena from Elena of Avalor, and a lot of characters from RWBY, Aelita has PTSD. She has dreams about it, she has visions about it, she flashes back to it when she sees or hears something that reminds her of it, like that melody on the piano that her father taught her. It's been years since I've taken a music class, and I never learned how to play the piano, so I don't know if it's an actual melody or not. Also, is it just me, or does it sound like *Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star*? Seriously, how did it take me literal years and hearing it somewhere else for me to recognize arguably one of the most famous children's songs ever? Given the fact that this is a French show, it does make sense that they would go with that song, since it's set to the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", which is a popular children's song in France. After being virtualized onto Lyoko in the Forest Sector, Aelita was an elf, like Mr. Pück, and her father was just some sparkly lights because, for some never explained reason, he couldn't materialize into human form. After being attacked by Kankrelats, they hid in a tower. Hopper went back outside to try and make peace with XANA, but he had become autonomous and was too powerful. Hopper was forced to shut down the supercomputer, and asked Aelita to never forget him, but as we all know, she did. Back in the present, Aelita wants Jeremie to help her find out if her father is still alive. He says that it's impossible for Franz Hopper to have survived, and she storms out on him, wishing that she had never recovered her memory. She goes to the Hermitage to cry, and it's *Odd,* of all people, who finds her and comforts her. It's moments like these that add some much needed depth to his character beyond just being comic relief. Apparently some people ship the two together, which… okay then, I won't judge, I just don't see it. Jeremie has always been… let's just say socially awkward, but he really likes Aelita. She likes him too, she just wishes he could understand that her father is all she has left of her past life. She decides to go to Sector 5 with Odd to try and find some trace of her father. Meanwhile, XANA has activated a tower in the Mountain Sector. Jeremie virtualizes Ulrich and Yumi onto Lyoko, unaware that Odd and Aelita are in Sector 5. When he finds out, he orders them to come back, and they have to give up their quest to find Franz Hopper. However, they spot some Mantas guarding the entrance to the heart of Lyoko, and realize that XANA is attacking it. The tower in the Mountain Sector was just a diversion, which explains why XANA hasn't done anything with it yet. Strategically speaking though, wouldn't that have been in his best interest? Odd is devirtualized, and Ulrich and Yumi head to Sector 5. They save the heart, get some more data on Franz Hopper, and deactivate the tower. Jeremie finds a fragment of a DNA code belonging to Franz Hopper. Aelita was right all along. Her father might still be alive somewhere on Lyoko. Maybe the reason the others materialize into human forms on Lyoko is because kids typically have more imagination or are more optimistic than adults?