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

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much it, really. I always interpreted the first love remark as talking about when they were kids, and from what I've seen that's basically what authorial intent was.

I also can't see Euphie cheating on Suzaku, both in terms of her principles and just that she is, genuinely, in love with him.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

Though it would only be cheating if Suzaku did not know about it. I very much doubt Euphie would hide such a thing. Nor do I believe Lelouch would go behind his friend's back (yes, I know he hid other things but this is personal). I either see it as Suzaku sanctioning in some fashion (whatever that entails) it if it's just Lulu/Euphie. Btw, I find this option boring, as it excludes Suzaku and excluding Suzaku is just wrong. :( Or trio (as explained elsewhere). While trios are difficult to manage in real life (for obvious reasons), in fiction they can be amazing blends of relationships.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Of course Suzaku would sanction it; it'd work perfectly into his own "I'm not worthy/you'll be better with someone else" issues. Which is why I always had trouble with it, even as a solely fanon concept - both Euphie and Lelouch canonically went to much effort to try and get Suzaku past these issues, the idea that they would willingly exacerbate them really sits wrong for me.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[nayami.livejournal.com]

A fair argument, which is why I seek the joint option. As rare as it may be. >_<

Though as you and others have mentioned, I do enjoy childverse/general/introspective pieces on just the two royals.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Basically my thought process goes thusly:
Many young children, prepubescent and ignorant in the ways of the world, think all love is the same. Hell, they even have another example of this in the show: little Shirley asks her dad if one day they'll get married because she's a girl and girls grow up to marry the boy they love. Nobody AFAIK ever took that the wrong way.
This then suddenly makes me horrified, remembering that goddamn rule 34, then I decide to distract myself before the thought train goes to a dark place, and just hope that the characters involved were too minor to get dragged into that shit.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Mmm, there was precedent for childhood love and references to marriage.

I hate you for that Rule 34.

Re: Random thoughts and some SPOILERS

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry. Apparently I just had to share my pain.