To answer a few of your questions....

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

I noticed all the speculation about whether Lelouch was alive in the second season and Marianne's maiden name.

First off, there is no actual official evidence that Lamperouge is Marianne's maiden name. Someone speculated about it and thus posted it on Wikipedia entry like Stephen Colbert's entry on African Forest Elephants. You shouldn't regard this as fact.
(Celiss from Gamefaqs confirmed this)

Finally,





Source: Newtype Romance, Asuka, and 2ch

So yes, he is alive obviously, but why do his eyes look perfectly normal? Speculate :D

EDIT: Someone uploaded the trailer for the second season on Youtube from Nicovideo.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gvpV_X8OHw0

Comments

[volfield.livejournal.com]

......I still think gar Suzaku is gar. And Zero's new outfit looked cooler on that Newtype spread... Now it looks even gayer ; ; Or just maybe, it's C.C. wearing it. It *really* looks like a girl outfit now.

Also, Lulu's Geass powering up... Sounds pretty good to me. Maybe he can now undo it or even perform it more than once on the same person...? I wonder if Suzaku also got any kind of Geass from V.V.~ Not that he needs one anyway. Jesus, anyone.

Mmmm. Needs moar spoilers.