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

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

This pairing is utterly adorable and was my first ship for this series before SuzaLulu ran off with the OTP flag.

I like the way that Euphie stands up for Suzaku when he can't/won't do so for himself (And it's sort of a running them with those two: Euphie always has faith in Suzaku and is forever pushing him to have more faith in himself), while Suzaku provides a tangible and physical way for Euphie to act on her own wishes.

In this way there are very close parallels to SuzaLulu, imo. Lelouch stands up for an unwilling Suzaku; Suzaku presents an option to make Lelouch's goals easier to reach (Geass aside). The major difference is that Euphie offers Suzaku the support and affirmation he desperately needs without all the tsundere criticism he gets from Lelouch -- which makes his relationship with her much healthier, and all the more painful a loss.

To me that's part of what makes the SAZ so incredibly tragic, even beyond the massacre; one really gets the impression that Euphie could have helped both Suzaku and Lelouch reconcile with each other and heal their old wounds, and working together the three of them could have accomplished a lot.

I could go on forever about these three. Absolute favorite trio of the series ♥

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That is exactly the same as how my shipping preferences went. Huh.

And I actually with quite a lot of what you are saying with Suzaku and Lelouch there; the fact that Lelouch's means of dealing with Suzaku's issues seems to very frequently be rage (even if it isn't rage at Suzaku himself) doesn't help there. Euphie's a lot simpler in expressing her opinions, and doesn't have the moral conflict of interest Lelouch does.

Well, that's the way tragedy works, you wait until things are just about to work out happily, and then screw things the hell up. Though I think about half of Code Geass's plot can be summed up as "Suzaku and Lelouch are on the verge of reconciling; something else fucks it up."

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

Though I think about half of Code Geass's plot can be summed up as "Suzaku and Lelouch are on the verge of reconciling; something else fucks it up."

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. :(

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I know why they did it; The whole "Together we can do anything" message. As soon as the two are on the same side, game over, they've won. So it couldn't happen properly until the endgame.

But it was frustrating how we'd be taunted by things looking like they were about to get better and have the two team up... and then not.