Code Geass Episode 5: Discussion!

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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.

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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.

And a third group will use it in fanfic as an actual backstory element of Jeremiah's, making him afraid of/obsessed with/sexually attracted to oranges. *sigh*

Anyways, is it just me or is this entire anime built on lies?

YES. The web of lies in R1 is incredibly labyrinthine - I didn't realize how bad until I started trying to unravel some of it in my fanfiction. For example, Suzaku thinks Lelouch is exactly what he appears to be, and thinks Lelouch thinks Suzaku is exactly what he claims to be, while Suzaku himself knows that he is the Lancelot's pilot, not a lowly mechanic, as well as his father's murderer. Meanwhile, Lelouch knows that he is actually Zero, and believes Suzaku to be an idiot who thinks he can change the world from a position of weakness, not knowing that he is in fact in a much more important position, AND his motivation is all wound up with his death wish complex thingy. AND Suzaku is getting chummy with Euphemia while not telling her that her favourite half-brother and sister ATEN'T DEAD. *head asplode*

There are many points in the series where people being honest with each other *might* have led to a better outcome, and the Diabolus Ex Machina-averted SAZ "happy ending" came about because some of the lies were unraveled. However, I can mostly see why the characters weren't willing to take a leap of faith and tell the truth to each other. The biggest point where I think more honest talk among them might have made a bit more sense was when Lelouch found out from Mao that Suzaku killed his father. It seems like they never really talked about that, or about, y'know, why crazy mind-readers were after Lelouch and Nunnally. Perhaps Lelouch was saving that for the never-happened conversation where he was going to ask Suzaku to look after Nunnally.