Character ages in Code Geass

[ianiceboy.livejournal.com]

Does any character's age (e.g. Lelouch, C.C., Euphemia, Tianzi) have a bearing on your enjoyment of Code Geass? Positive or negative?

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[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, it makes the fact that much of the story events are driven by emotion rather than strict logic more internally consistent - when the main characters occasionally do dumb things, the fact that they are young, emotional and inexperienced and in need of therapy does a decent job of explaining why they do them.

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

This.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Occasionally I'll come across people bitching about how they hate whatever plot development because Lelouch (or Suzaku, or whoever) did something that "made no logical sense", and I'll sit there thinking to myself "No shit, it was a decision made by an teenager with enormous emotional issues."

Teenagers with issues aren't going to act like hardened soldiers, no matter what they've been through (...especially given what they've been through in this case).

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

exactly.

And the very few times that Lelouch especially did that, half fandom was like 'omg, get it together okuchi, that is not something lelouch would do.'

yeah kay.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

And the very few times that Lelouch especially did that, half fandom was like 'omg, get it together okuchi, that is not something lelouch would do.'

Conclusion: A bunch of people wanted/expected Lelouch to be a perfect, all-conquering, do-know-wrong Gary Stu. What they got in canon was a brilliant, but messed up kid.

...I don't know what the issue is, really. Lelouch's flaws and issues are what make him interesting.

[scribblestorm.livejournal.com]

I'll take the messed-up!Lulu over GaryStu!Lulu any day. Part of the reason this show sucked me in so much was the fact that none of the characters are really 'perfect' and that makes them so much easier to sympathize with. Granted, the Dammit Shirley, put the gun down! moments and No, Lulu, do not storm the Geass order when you're so clearly unstable moments may have been frustrating for the narrative, what with all the avoidable crap storms they led to, but I can't imagine the story being as engaging otherwise. Flawless characters who always get their way aren't fun to watch.

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

YESSSS exactly.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

IAWTC so hard. Especially if you look at how teenagers' brains cannot process things like long term consequences in the way that adults' brains can, and how teenagers perform risk assessment vs. adults.