Episode idea: Power Loss (Odd-focused episode)

[Bootch offline]

THIS IS GOLD!!! Your writing is awesome!!


So what, youre gonna go ahead and start writing up all the ideas we've put down here?

[Taelia offline]

WHOA!! Awesome job there! I can see it now...

MATTHEW, ODD: We are NOT scrawny, we're SVELTE!!

I ciuld tell that Matthew's a glutton, like his boy. And they sure have a lovin' relationship.

[Cassius335 offline]

Okay, I'll come clean.

The idea I have is that during S2 XANA posessed a former member of Hopper's team, who went into hiding after leaving Carthage to prevent discovery.

This man, Gene Mordecai, wrote much of the software that later was used by Franz to build Lyoko, and now is the reclusive CEO of Confederated Computers, a company now developing...wait for it...Quantum Supercomputers.

XANA's new home is in Confederated's prototype Quantum Network, and he aspires to control the world via the internet. However to operate to his full potential he needs a Lyoko-esque virtual environment - his program was designed to operate through one and without it his power is limited. He also wants to destroy all previous evidence of his existance, lest someone find a way to destroy him.

Therefore through the virtual season XANA is doing several things - he's keeping the kids distracted so they don't start hunting for his new location, he's using Gene to program a new virtual world within Confederated's Network (XANADU), and he's hunting down everyone and anyone who could possibly hinder him.

One of these persons is General Matthew Della-Robbia - once a captain working for Carthage, friend of Franz Hopper and possessor of the command codes necessary to unlock the supercomputer and reveal what remains of XANA within it - with this data Jeremie could create a internet-based program to seek and destroy all elements of XANA, were he to release himself world-wide.

Matthew was also the man who unknowingly saved Aelita's life on June 6th 1994 - tracing Hopper and his daughter to the factory solo (as he was the one ordered to track down the Hoppers), it was HE who shut the supercomputer down, stopping XANA's memory-drain of Aelita, and it was he who lied to his superiors - stating that the Hoppers simply vanished, and never revealing the existance of the supercompter, which he left to gather dust until the kids turned it back on.

How's that for a conspiracy?

Interresting, though we seem to be losing the original idea for the episode (XANA collecting life energy to make a body for himself). And given that, it seems strange that he'd voluntarily place himself somewhere where he'd be vulnerable to being deleted. I think I prefer 'Free Range XANA', not tied to any particular place (and good in an omlette

BTW, which was the thread where Jeremy was feeling underappreciated and there was a monster attacking? I can't find it.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of Gene and Xanadu, but this sort of thing could drown out the rest of everything we're trying to do.

Oh, and it's possible that over the course of the season, XANA develops even more, to the point where any leftovers in Carthage are obselete. So Jeremie's idea has a bit of a short window of oppertunity.

[TB3]

Hmm...I can see where you're coming from - that said I thought we needed a five or seven episode story arc and then all the other stuff can go in around it - but in the end it's all up to you guys.

[Taelia offline]

I love your story arc, TB3. Let's go with that.

[Bootch offline]

I can see how it may seem that the story has diverged from the original...

[Taelia offline]

How will the scanners be used to hold Odd in stasis?

[Bootch offline]

How will the scanners be used to hold Odd in stasis?

I just saw that episode where jeremy first tries to go to lyoko but there isnt enough memory... it could be something like what he went through, but controlled to keep the body on pause while they set everything up for Odd to be whole again.

[Taelia offline]

Yeah. Good idea.

[TB3]

Sorry guys if I deviated the entire course of the episode- feel free to change it to suit you.

I suggest once we have a complete 'season' we then start writing - quite a challenge.

[Bootch offline]

Sorry guys if I deviated the entire course of the episode- feel free to change it to suit you.

I suggest once we have a complete 'season' we then start writing - quite a challenge.

good idea. Also, We do need to write up all the ideas there are, a sorta story board but in words to know exactly what it is that is going to get written , no?

[Taelia offline]

Hey, guys, listen. TB3 and I are the main writers for the Virtual Season of CL, but suggestions are helpful.

[Bootch offline]

Hey, guys, listen. TB3 and I are the main writers for the Virtual Season of CL, but suggestions are helpful.

yes sorry... didn't mean to overstep my bounds... i'll be quiet for a while now.

[TB3]

I personally think it'd be great to have multiple writers - as Animenologist's sig says - 'an idea is better when transplanted from the mind that conceived it into others' or something like that.

[Taelia offline]

^_^ That's true. Very true. Forgive my selfcenteredness. I can be that way sometimes.

[Bootch offline]

^_^ That's true. Very true. Forgive my selfcenteredness. I can be that way sometimes.

Its alrite, I understand it was your story to start with and you and TB3 have een writing together for a while and I just came around and wormed my way in.

I am here to help with anything you guys need though.

[Mewberries151]

Hey, guys, listen. TB3 and I are the main writers for the Virtual Season of CL, but suggestions are helpful.

Um...Taelia, you do realize that anyone here is free to create their own episode ideas and submit suggestions (within the rules of the forum), right? I know you and TB3 write most of them, but as TB3 said, multiple writers breed more unique ideas and the like. Everyone here is free to submit their own ideas and suggestions...to the appropriate threads of course. ^^; You did apologize though so no harm done. Just keep this in mind okay?

[Taelia offline]

I will. ^^

[Bootch offline]

anything still going on with the development of this story?

[Taelia offline]

Yeah. There is. We just need to get the script started now.

[Bootch offline]

Is somebody just going to write the whole thing or is it going to be the \post and debate system you had whilst giving ideas?

[TB3]

I'll probably take a swing at writing up some of the eps - the problem is guys these things are long - I don't know if a full season is feasible for me, but as a test next week I'll try writing the opening episode Y2K2 and we'll see how it goes, okay?

[Bootch offline]

I'll probably take a swing at writing up some of the eps - the problem is guys these things are long - I don't know if a full season is feasible for me, but as a test next week I'll try writing the opening episode Y2K2 and we'll see how it goes, okay?

Would you like me to make my way through this topic and make a post of all the information there is, in a sorta chronological order to try and help you with your writing of this episode when you get to it?

[TB3]

Sure! I do have a pretty firm idea of what I want to do with Y2K2 though, I have an...interesting idea for a post-XANA future - I hope you guys will enjoy it.

[Taelia offline]

I will. ^^ Can't wait for the scripts, TB3. If we all pitch in, things get done a lot faster.

I also have an idea for a picture that'll go with the episode - Odd through the Years.