Growing up I saw a few episodes of this and I loved them. Outside of that, that's all that had been introduced in my childhood. However, recently I came across a youtube channel that had the episodes of this. I had a few hours to kill so I watched some episodes on my phone. I was 15 when I watched code lyoko again, and I'm not afraid to say that I still loved it. In two months I watched all 95 episodes of it, I guess it was 4 or 5 seasons. It was great, even better than what I remembered from when I was much younger. My critique, then, comes with the new series of code lyoko evolution. Most people do not like the idea of change, but I kept an open mind in watching it. That being said code lyoko evolution was awful. It was good idea, and usually I would rather have a show that has real characters as opposed to animated characters. However, there was just something about this show that I loved so much better in the animated version. I guess it might be the kid inside of me that like the cartoon aspect of it, I don't know. But one thing is for sure, code lyoko evolution is no where near the status that code lyoko was. In my opinion, code lyoko was flawless. It had great plot lines, and a great balance of action (although unrealistic and kind of predictable) and also did a good job on the relationships and personalities of the characters. Maybe the casting for evolution was not as good, I'm not sure. Now, I'm only a viewer, but I'm pretty sure that it would be all around easier to revert back to the animated version, that seemed to be working just fine. For the most part, viewer feedback is that evolution is not nearly as good as the animated version. The original version, although not that popular in the US, received amazing like-to-dislike ratios. I mean like 200-400 likes compared to usually 10-50 dislikes. It's sad to see such a great show have a sequel that ruins its name. I just want them to revert back to the animated version. It will probably cost less and will be easier to do both English and French dubbed versions. In my opinion, nothing was wrong with the original. It was a nice thought to use a real cast and what not, but it's time to admit that it was a failure and go back to what was working.
Review of Code Lyoko
