Code Geass Episode 5: Discussion!

[gods-debris.livejournal.com]

Episode 5: 皇女と魔女
The Imperial Princess and the Witch










We begin by seeing Cornelia taking control of Area 18 with her army. For whatever reason I always somewhat felt that Lelouch had some sort of a similarity with her. Well, at least for this episode they were both introduced with a fiery entrance (at least Zero was shown to the public that way in the last episode). Cornelia has decided to take control of Area 11 and avenge the death of her brother, Clovis. Her goal? To find Zero!

Lelouch returns home to see a familiar face of someone whom he thought died via bullet to the brain. I guess I'd be a little surprised too. I mean, he did watch her die in front of him. There was a bullet in her head, after all. She survived and there's not even a scar to show she was ever shot. At any rate, it's nice to see that Nunnally and C.C. are getting along pleasantly—except she's under the assumption that Lelouch is marrying her. I gotta say, though, I didn't get the feeling that Nunnally really believed the breaking of that cup was legit. Unfortunately for Lelouch he doesn't get to have a lot of his questions answered by the mysterious C.C..

In other news poor Jeremiah has lost his leadership due to the whole "orange" incident. No one trusts him after he let Zero escape and even attacked his own men claiming they were disobeying his orders. For those wondering what "orange" meant, Lelouch claims it was just a casual remark that some people will want to know the meaning of and others will begin to analyze what it does mean. Suspicion. Luckily for Suzaku, due to the whole ordeal they acquitted that there was not enough evidence to charge him with the murder of Clovis, so he was found innocent! Other than that other terrorist groups are making a ruckus because of the whole Zero thing, thinking it's time to revolt; even the Japanese that Toudou is a part of wants to act now, but Toudou seems to be very patient and he wants to wait and not get caught up in the whole Zero thing.

Anyways, is it just me or is this entire anime built on lies? When Suzaku meets Euphemia for the first time one of the first thing she says to him is a lie. She's being chased by bad people? Moreover she lies about who she is—well she omits the fact that she's the princess Euphemia and just tells Suzaku that she's Eufie. However, I get that she did that so she could see who he was on a different level. For example when Suzaku stepped in when some Britannian soldiers were creating a ruckus with an Eleven. He took a lot of heat from the Britannians. Later he stepped in when there was a coup d'état against Jeremiah, which later caused Euphemia to step in and stop the fight using her royal power. Maybe it was a test for Suzaku because she knew who he was when they met, I believe. Either way, Lloyd knew the entire time, that bastard!

I gotta hand it to Lelouch, though. He put Geass on a girl to test how long Geass stays on a given person for. Every day at the same time she goes to the same spot and carves in the wall the same image. Even C.C. is impressed.

Suzaku is attending Ashford Academy! :D

Next time: 奪われた仮面
The Stolen Mask

P.S. I will be deleting previous image batches from my flickr account within the next week, save for this one.

Comments

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

So weird. Since Nunnally talks about her and Euphie vying for Lelouch's hand in marriage when they were younger. That's why she asks Euphie when they're together how she feels about him and how she feels about Suzaku? Nunnally is quite jealous of Euphie and Lelouch.

But I can understand your stance on it. I just enjoy taking it further and having my bizarre Lelouch/Suzaku/Euphie trinity. It fits well with my Lelouch/Suzaku/CC trinity.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That's why she asks Euphie when they're together how she feels about him and how she feels about Suzaku?

Well, given the next time she and Lelouch speak it's talking about how close Euphie and Suzaku are now, I can guess how that conversation went.

I could deal with that triangle better if I'd ever seen a single bit of writing that dealt with the Suzaku side of it well. Which I haven't, for the record, they always seem to push him aside.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

Which triangle?

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

The Euphie one.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

That's awfully distressing. It should be all of them. :( Ah, one day I will find someone who's willing to RP it, and then I will make sure it's the most fucked-up triangle in the world. o/

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

Nunnally talks about her and Euphie vying for Lelouch's hand in marriage when they were younger.

Kids say stuff like that without it meaning anything in later life. One of my cousins apparently once said she wanted to marry me and our grandad. (Yes, at the same time. LOL.)

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

Normally, yes, this is just a cute little kid thing. But Nunnally *is* jealous in the scene and she is 14-years-old when people should have grown out of it. Also, I think there is some canon (don't quote me on this since I'm not 100% sure) of Cornelia disapproving when Euphie talks about marrying Lelouch. I think the Britannians are just culturally warped, with the closeness of all the siblings (Charles and V.V. as well.) Also, inter-familial marriage is not uncommon to European royal history. But there is also the fact that Lelouch and Nunnally's views on love itself are slightly outside of norm, with them not automatically equating it to something sexual so much as emotional. Long story short, Britannians are weird, and things they say can't always be shrugged off as one could do with other characters.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Also, inter-familial marriage is not uncommon to European royal history.

Cousin inter-marriage was not uncommon to European royalty, and repeated generations of it left behind a genetic trainwreck. Sibling inter-marriage wasn't condoned, and would never be in any society based on one of the Abrahamic religions. It wasn't in Roman societies, either - when you hear about incestuous emperors there, it's a demonstration of their horrific immorality. Egypt is about the only society it was common, and that was because they believed their pharaohs were the children of gods and were keeping the divine blood pure.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

There was actually at least one uncle/niece marriage among European royalty. Squick.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Hapsburg family tree. Talk about a genetic train-wreck.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

But Nunnally *is* jealous in the scene and she is 14-years-old when people should have grown out of it.

Except the marriage comment is specifically a reminiscence of when they were children...and at least some of Nunnally's jealousy may well be about Suzaku, not Lelouch.