Hi!


I watched eps 1-23 of Code Geass yesterday - and it's an awesome show.

It's got a terrifying alternate history:



Kick-bunbun robots:



Freaky powers:



An interesting cast:





And a whole lot more!



Any other fans of it here?

And Pizza Hut too.

And CC. :wub:

PIZZA HUT PROPAGANDA


Also, when are the next eps coming out exactly?

24 and 25 in July.

I hope that true. I haven't seen anything for release, but I hope it doesn't get put off for too long.

Also:

If I wasn't being rushed out of the house, I'd give my thoughts.

But I'll say this now and edit later.

I'm not pleased. :angry:

Are you serious?

BEST ENDING EVER.

Also, my sister looooooves Lelouch. According to her, he's the only man in the series and everyone else is a p****. :P

The ending fails hard for the fact that [Lelouche hasn't died an agonizing, horrible death].

Also, your sister scares me.

The ending was another sighed cliffhanger, and we waited months for 24 and 25. Not pleased at all as well. Anyone who liked the ending really must have had low expectations for it's performance.

Umm... It was well known (at least in Japan) that there was going to be a second season.

Why shouldn't they leave a cliffhanger? It's a perfectly reasonable 'ending' given that people were well aware of the fact that it was not supposed to be an ending. Liking the ending has nothing to do with low expectations, but just an awareness that its not the end.

What do we think of season 2 so far?

I'm diggin' it, but Suzaku's a total wanker.

The brief shot they showed of ninja-princess made me forget all about it, though. :wub:

. . . but then the brief shot they showed of racist girl ruined it again. :(

But anyway, I like it so far.

My first thought on seeing this was "TATSUMAKI SENPUU KYAKU!!!"

--T

He's not as bad as Lelouch. :ph34r:

But so far, I am enjoying.

There are still so many things that they could screw up, so I'm cautiously optimistic. They have a lot of things still to explain and cover from the end of the last season and characterization consistency.

And would ninja-princess be Kaguya?

I could do without Nina myself, but I want Diethard gone more. I also want Lloyd and his sexy, sexy aide back. And Cornelia. I <3 Cornelia.

I could do with some Euphemia returning, but I'm not seeing that one.

Yeah, Kaguya, that's the one. :P

I'm impartial to Diethard. I don't care for him, but I don't mind him as much as you seem to.

Lloyd, Sexy Aide and Cornelia would all be welcome returns, but if Euphie came back I would be really disappointed as it would take away all the impact and tragedy of her "exit" in season 1. That episode had my jaw on the floor and a tear in my eye. It was when I realised how much I enjoyed the series and it showed that anything can happen in this show.

Yes, but I liked her so much and I didn't want her to go. :sob:

I don't really want her back so much that I actually want Sunrise to ruin the show, but I sure do miss her.

A very large portion of Suzaku's current wankerness is due to that whole fiasco, and Suzaku acting like that makes me sad. :(

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http://animanachronism.wordpress.com/2008/...nian-nerve-gas/

Interesting read that says a lot of what I thought about Code Geass, but at the same time could very well be overanalyzing things. As there's the problem of is Code Geass actually trying to say something or is it just T&A, robots, fighting, and 'just as planned'?

Episode 4 of R2 did settle my fears about reinventing Lelouch. He's still a complete Richard that doesn't care about the Elevens at all and only cares about revenge and Nunally.

Thank god for that!

Curse you, seven day week! *shakes fist*

http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/azumanga...dpost&p=5536811

I totally did not consider the implications of him not getting over it fast. Several episodes of Lelouch in that mood woulda killed the series. Killed it deader than every high-class Knightmare frame* working together could manage.


*Pretty much all of the ones named after Arthurian characters and the Guren.

I hear you. A villain fight (Lelouch vs. Curly) is great fun to watch, but leaves an unsatisfying taste in my mouth as there really isn't anyone to cheer for. Lelouch isn't quite as awful as the Emperor, there are people he does care about, but he isn't much better. And the more he tosses morality and conscience to the side, the worse he gets.

But if Lelouch were a knight in shining armor, the series wouldn't be nearly as fun.

This lack of 'good guys' is at least part of the reason I liked Suzaku and Euphie in the first season. But with Suzaku broken from the Euphie incident, he's lost something...

And as much as I dislike Lelouch if he just came clean about the Euphie incident, he'd be back in my 'like' pile of characters.

As for everything working out in the end for everyone, I'd like pretty much the entire cast to get together and party down. We would exclude Nina, Diethard, Rakshata, the Black Knight that faps to Zero, that eunuch, and all those two-bit Britannians. I can't think of anyone else I wouldn't want to invite. Curly would get to come because he's Norio.

And speaking of two-bit Britannians, does anyone else find it funny that the Britannian characters are pretty much all cool, but nearly all the background guys are just awful? It creates this weird disconnect.

I think I'll stop rambling.

I wouldn't invite Nina. :P

Agreed. It's like they're trying to give us a logic to Suzaku's affiliation with them, while maintaining a logic to Lelouch's antagonizing of them, resulting in a bit of a schizophrenic presentation of them.

Nina's the first person on my list of excluded personnel. :P

I keep telling myself that I shouldn't think top hard about the show. It has all the depth of a kiddy pool. It's about robots and boobs and "Just as planned" and butts and cool powers and boobs and robots and explosions and robots. But I can't help myself.

I hear ya. That's the thing about interpretation, though. Any fiction (especially stuff with complicated plots and lots of characterisation like this one) can be as deep or as shallow as the viewer wants it to be. Forget the author's original intention. As soon as its out there in the public its got a life of its own and we can interpret it however we want to. Sure, it's about giant robots, boobs, "just as planned" et al, but that could just be one level of it, for those of us who might not want to think any more about it. But if we take joy in picking it apart and trying to find deeper meaning in it, then why the heck not? People have been doing that for centuries, ya know? You think everyone that read Dickens back in the day was picking it apart the way university professors are today? Probably not. They probably just enjoyed the drama of it. Same with Shakespeare. Now, I'm not saying that Code Geass is on the same level as Dickens or Shakespeare, but who knows, maybe in 200 years, that's what they'll be saying.

Could be that I just enjoy doing this kinda stuff with anime and I'm just being wordy and pompous to justify it. :P

I choose to stay at the top level, because if I trying to dive deeper my brain starts hurting. :P

Far too much stuff happens because the plot demands it and not because it makes any sense. But I enjoy mechs and boobs, so I'll stick with that.

Because I said so. :angry:

Actually, I don't mind at all. I do it for plenty of stuff myself. In fact, I generally find accidental 'deeper meaning' stuff more entertaining then the intentional stuff. The intentional stuff tends to be rather pretentious.

But, as I said, I can't handle it with Code Geass because of brain hurting. The over-analysis stuff can be way fun to read, though. Like that essay I linked earlier. Great fun to read, but if the producers put that much thought into the show, but forgot to iron out some of the glaring inconsistencies....

That makes two of us.

Agreed. <_<

Yeah, I actually really enjoyed reading that.

You'd be surprised how often that happens, though, even when it comes to the (supposed) intentional stuff.

So I built up a backlog to see if watching in groups would be more fun. Eh, it hasn't been so far.


But I did notice one thing. Eclipse knows the difference between fiancé and fiancée. :wub:

The one million Zero's thing was cool, but throughout the whole thing I kept thinking, "This plan would have failed so hard if not for Lelouch's plot armor..."

And is it just me or is Anya like the complete opposite of Euphie? Yet equally sexy.

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And Geez is Nina designed well. Why does such excellent sexiness have to be wasted on her? :(

That is :wub:

So true! It was a deus ex machina of the worst kind! . . . but I couldn't help but enjoy it anyway:P

Nothing can make Nina sexy.

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Indeed!

I just hope that the series doesn't end with deus ex machina on top of deus ex machina. This is at least part of the reason I'm hoping that Lelouch doesn't succeed. The other reason being it would be totally badass for the show to end with Suzaku and Lelouch killing each other in some epic awesome battle.

And then the path to the throne being cleared for Cornelia.

And who else doesn't trust Schneizel? For all his apparent honesty and nobility, he seems to be the emperor's favorite.

If there's one thing I've learned from anime, it's that the really friendly-looking guy on the bad guy team is the one who's secretly the most evil.

Anyone else but me wish there was more Shirley? :(


...>__>

I wish there were more Karen and C.C. I must admit that Anya had caught my interest as well. I always say that I hate Rei-clones, but I tend to be drawn to them anyway. I think it's because they're usually victims and it's just a protective instinct.

Episodes like 12 make me wonder who Lelouch will end up with. Unfortunately, my gut feeling is that they'll leave it utterly unresolved at the end of the series. Doesn't Japan believe in romantic closure?!

Tianzi, Cornelia, Villetta, Cecile, and Kaguya ftw.

And Anya was a bad Rei clone from the get go. Her hair is not blue and is far too fancy. :P

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My relationship with Anya....

First saw her character designs: Hot damn is she sexy
Found out who her voice actress was: Hot damn is that sexy
First saw her in the show: Ah man, not this kinda character :(
Her first real appearance in the show: What kinda weird habit is that?
Her first combat: Hot damn is she sexy
The masochist conversation and following: Hot damn is she sexy
Summoning Mordred to Ashford: Hot damn is she sexy

Damn, almost forgot about her. :wub:

Wow, R2 sounds like it sucks!

No, you have it all wrong. Anya is actually Minami Chiaki with a giant mecha to pilot. :angry:

NEEDS MORE EVERYBODY


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WANT

And wow, this show. It's gotten so out of hand, I don't even know anymore. It's like the trainwreck you can't stop watching... seriously. [Episode 12 spoilers: I like how Lelouch's number one bodyguard and Knightmare Frame pilot is under enemy capture, and he goes on 100 dates. Did everyone just forget about her? Another thing C.C. has shown up like 5 times this entire season. And just when the problem with Shirley's love for Lelouch seemed to have calmed down and temporarily resolved itself, WOW. I can't wait for the oncoming s***storm and facial distortions. I LOVE THIS SHOW (seriously, despite everything wrong and crazy about it, this is an amazing show that I just can't stop watching.) ]

That sequence was very very awesome. Sayoko has been quite :wub: lately.

Just happened upon that scene from season 1 on youtube and wow, it's just as shocking and intense as it was the first time. Shivers!

Episode 13. Very interesting episode. But not in a good way.

First off, what the heck was the deal with Orange? Seriously. That wasn't just bad, that was craptacular and shattered every bit of willing suspension of disbelief I had. I can't swallow that pill.

Lelouch's just as planned moment this episode? Lame. It was more like pure luck and an asspull than any genius. Lelouch's just as planned moments as a whole have been leaning more and more that way every since late first season.

Shirley? How quickly she decided to forgive Lelouch was lame. Especially given how set on revenge she was last season.

More complaints about Lelouch's character. Way overly emotional there. He flips from a heart of stone to emotionally fragile little boy way to easily.

Now, comments on the new OP. Given that this is the OP, nothing can be taken too seriously.

That bit with C.C., Suzaku, Nunally, and Schneizel near the front? That was odd. And suspicious.

Schneizel's basically been confirmed as the Emperor's Dragon. Nothing real surprising there.

The Guren and Lancelot being portrayed as 'together'? That's a little weird as that implies Kallen switching sides. I can't buy that. Kallen is far too commited to her ideals. It could also imply that Suzaku changes sides, but that just doesn't work as Suzaku and Lelouch can't work together. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of Code Geass.

The other weirdness is Tristan and Mordred in among Lelouch's knightmares. This season is getting ridiculous in people joining up with Lelouch. If two Knights of the Round switch, that's beyond reason. Besides, Lelouch has a disposition that's just right for becoming a despot himself. The Elevens joining him makes sense, as he's their only hope. But the amount of outsiders that are hooking up with him is a little weird. The Chinese I can see working with him for mutual gain, but not really trusting him. Britainnians, especially those higher up on the ladder, not really.