Code Geass Reruns

[gods-debris.livejournal.com]

The past 4 days I rewatched the entire Code Geass series (1st and 2nd) because my boyfriend had never seen it and Dan (one of his friends who has seen it) and I were making a lot of Code Geass references; and well... eventually my boyfriend's curiosity got the best of him and he decided he wanted to watch it.

But that's when I got an idea. I'm also a memeber of the Slayers anime community and a while back they had initiated a rerun schedule where they would watch an episode once every other day or once a week (I can't remember) and at the end of the day the person who set it up would post some screenshots from the episode and talk about some of their thoughts... what they forgot about, what they really liked, etc. Other members who decided to take part could post comments about what they liked as well.

So I was going to propose, as a community, we could rewatch the series. Perhaps one episode a week would be fine? It means it will take about a year to complete since there are 52 weeks in a year. In the first series there is a total of 25 episodes since 25 and 26 were combined into a 46 minute episode and in the second series there is exactly 25 episodes... meaning 50 total.

The rules are simple: if you choose to participate you do not move ahead of the schedule and watch the following episode. You must wait until the next week.

Lemme know if anyone is interested! Sorry about this sounding a bit wordy and rushed. I'm in a hurry but I wanted to get this out there because it was bugging me lol.

Comments

The irony of the writers/Lelouch being sloppy about Rolo's part in the rescue mission

[kusaja.livejournal.com]

...is that the brat didn't even get the chance to come near Nunnally.

If Rolo had actually reached and attempted to kill her...whether he succeeded or not, I'd definitely question that all the way back to the source.

However, the fact is Rolo had no direct impact on the events that involved Nunnally. Rolo could have stayed in a Knightmare Frame for all of Turn 18 and the end result would be 99% of what we got. His presence didn't impact the rescue mission in any visible way.

It remains a questionable choice, whether or not we can argue about the reason why that actually happened, but one that ended up being an ultimately cosmetic matter.

I have far more concerns with the way Shirley was treated. Not so much because of her death, as a concept (that was one of her most likely fates), but simply because the event wasn't given the importance it deserved in terms of the time spent on its aftermath.

The staff did at least one small thing right by focusing on that a bit more in the R2 Special Edition (or as much as they could do by adding a monologue or two and editing, etc. but introducing no new animation), even though that's still too little, too late.