Having finally watched the episode, I'm going to comment on one thing in particular now.
It interests me that they're setting up another parallel between characters, this time between Euphemia and Lelouch. The fact is, they both have the same essential motivation now: they want to regress to the peace of their childhood.
Euphemia is much more open about it, of course; she doesn't have the multiple layers of denial and self-deception that Lelouch does (probably due to being a) less traumatized and b) less introspective than Lelouch). She'll cheerfully admit to herself, "Now we can go back to the past!"
But Lelouch, although he claims to be aware that they've all changed since then and can't go back to the past, differs only superficially in his motivations. Showing him sitting there with Nunnally in the end makes that especially clear. He says he wants to make a peaceful world where Nunnally can never be harmed again--but it seems like what he means is that he wants to recreate the world of his childhood for him and Nunnally instead of going forward with what he has.
Maybe this arc will involve him confronting his yearning for the past? Whatever happens, this episode makes it painfully clear how much both the exiled prince and the third princess need to grow up.
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It interests me that they're setting up another parallel between characters, this time between Euphemia and Lelouch. The fact is, they both have the same essential motivation now: they want to regress to the peace of their childhood.
Euphemia is much more open about it, of course; she doesn't have the multiple layers of denial and self-deception that Lelouch does (probably due to being a) less traumatized and b) less introspective than Lelouch). She'll cheerfully admit to herself, "Now we can go back to the past!"
But Lelouch, although he claims to be aware that they've all changed since then and can't go back to the past, differs only superficially in his motivations. Showing him sitting there with Nunnally in the end makes that especially clear. He says he wants to make a peaceful world where Nunnally can never be harmed again--but it seems like what he means is that he wants to recreate the world of his childhood for him and Nunnally instead of going forward with what he has.
Maybe this arc will involve him confronting his yearning for the past? Whatever happens, this episode makes it painfully clear how much both the exiled prince and the third princess need to grow up.