I love it when stories go for the 'show, don't tell' approach. It provides a lot more depth to a scene when the characters don't spell out every emotional beat that is currently happenning.
So when Jeremie, arguably the smartest kid in the entire school is worrying about his future, his friends are there for him. They don't have to tell him, they don't have to say it... they just are.
I love these guys.
(Also I have a soft spot for sunsets, so this scene kind of just elevates itself in my mind by mere aesthetics alone.)
Code Lyoko is one of those shows where you step away for a bit, it comes back to you, and you think “it wasn’t actually that intense. I’m just misremembering, how I felt when I last saw it as a kid that’s all.”
Then you watch it.
And no, no actually, I remembered correctly. They almost drove into a nuclear power plant, a military laser as pointed at them, they team up with the big bad to rob the government, the man characters have a near death experience every day, it’s very much implied that deaths on Lyoko is very similar to the real thing, literal men in black came after Aelita’s family, William lost months of his life, Jeremy was torturing himself to keep his friends safe on the other side of the screen, Odd almost drowned, Yumi and Ulrich were nearly boiled alive.
i'm a bit late BUT! happy 20th anniversary to code lyoko!
this show was my first hyperfixation and also my first time participating in fandom spaces and was just in general a HUGE part of my formative years, to the point where it's not even nostalgic because it's just an enormous part of my life.
i'm currently rewatching the series and looking forward to many more decades of code lyoko taking over my brain whenever i think about it!