r/CodeLyoko

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Hi everyone,

Quentin Merabet here. You may know me because I probably ruined your favorite show, playing Ulrich.

First of all: sorry about that. I was definitely not the best person on Earth for the job 😭

But playing in one of my favorite shows ever was an incredible honor. I still remember calling my little sister completely losing my mind when I got the part (it was for William at first btw 💀).

And somehow, the craziest thing that came out of it wasn’t even filming the series. It was you guys. I met so many incredible people through this community. Some of you I still talk to today. You gave me memories, friendships, opportunities, and an absurd amount of support over the years.

And, well… I also met Mélanie, who played Yumi. We fell in love. And now we have a family.

So yeah. Code Lyoko really messed up my life lol 🥹

But there’s something most of you probably don’t know about me. In real life, I’m a bit like Jeremie.

I’ve been coding since I was 13. I genuinely love it. So much that it eventually became my job.

And last month, after years of building things for other people, I finally launched something of my own. My little baby. It’s called Loreum.

Loreum is a place to tell stories made for the digital world. Of course there’s text.

But stories can also have sounds. Images. Videos. Choices. Questions. Different paths.

And no, it does not use AI (XANA sucks). Just people making weird, beautiful things for other people.

After acting, I spent some time writing and directing too, and I became a little obsessed with interactive storytelling. So, basically… yeah

I built the app 20yo me would have completely lost his mind over.

And somehow, one month after launching, Loreum is already approaching 1.5k stories.

Which is completely insane to me. But we’re still tiny.

And I guess this is the part where I’m asking the Lyoko Warriors for help 😭 Not in some giant corporate “please support my exciting new venture” way.

Just… come see what we’re building.

Download it. Read something. Tell me what sucks. Tell me what you wish existed. Write a tiny story. Make something interactive (pleeaaase). Send it to a friend who writes.

If you end up loving Loreum, stick around. We even pay per views on your stories!

I genuinely want the kind of people who were there for such an important part of my life to be part of this one too. We have a lot to build.

And I have a feeling some of you might have exactly the kind of strange ideas we need 🖤

Quentin.

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Hi,

I wanted to ask if anybody here had access to the arabic dub of Code Lyoko, or its subtitles in SRT.

The Youtube channel only uploads the english dub with subtitles on the video.

Thanks to anybody who can help !

And no I’m not talking about AI upscales. Also you know how standard 4:3 quality is 480p but if you put it as 1080p the quality is significantly better? The reason why I say this is because on YouTube the show is uploaded in 480p but we all know that’s not how the quality of the 4:3 actually is.

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I just did another re-watch of the show, and one thing that caught my eye this time was the amount of times where Xana could've won if he did nothing at all. I'm going to give 4 examples:

1. EP 30 - A Great Day: Sissi catches Aelita and Jeremie talking about Aelita's forged identity, records it and tries throughout the episode to get them busted for this, which would've lead to Aelita being expelled, authorities being called etc. If Xana didn't possess her here, he would've either gotten rid of his biggest threat, or at least made it harder for them to be readily available to take him one. This one I can somewhat forgive, because it was Xana's first time possessing a human, maybe he was trying things out.

2. EP 56 - False lead - Literal government agents barge into the factory, about to arrest the entire gang and shut down the super computer, Xana decides to possess them anyway. If Xana didn't do anything, the gang would've lost their only means of fighting him, forever.

3. EP 88 - Cousins once removed - Sissi and Herb discover more or less all the actual crimes Jeremie committed to let Aelita live on Earth. If Xana let this play out, Sissi would've called her father, Jeremie and his gang would've been arrested and likely forced to admit everything to the authorities. Instead, he decides to possess Sissi and Herb, making sure they never spill any beans about anything, because a RTTP erases all their memory.

4. EP 90 - Wrong exposure - Odd makes a biblical fuckup, leading to Sissi showing her father a picture of Franz and Aelita together, leading to Delmas discovering that Aelita isn't even Canadian. If Xana didn't interfere and possess Delmas, this would've escalated god knows where and ended poorly for the gang.

Now, I do understand that, at the time of most of these episodes, Xana had different goals, in example 2 his goal was destroying Lyoko, and in examples 3 and 4, his goal was throwing Aelita into the digital sea to bait out and destroy Franz, but that's exactly Xana's problem - if he had just seen the bigger picture, if he had done nothing, he could've won. My issue with these scenarios is that the plot relies on Xana's short-sighted nature to bail the kids out of trouble. I would've preferred if the writes found a way for LW's to somehow bail themselves out of at least some of these situations without needing to rely on Xana possessing whoever was going to expose them.