R2 Episode 2 Screencaps: The Japan Liberation Plan

[veatariel.livejournal.com]

Pardon the low-res screencaps. I just finished watching the second episode, and it is unfortunate that I can't screencap everything.

Here's my picture summary of episode 2.



- Flashback to the stand-off in Episode 25
- Suzaku and Lelouch shoot at the same time, and Lelouch's gun gets blown off, Suzaku's earpiece is shot off
- Suzaku takes down Lelouch and brings him to the Emperor
- The Emperor has Geass in both eyes
- The Emperor Geasses Lelouch to forget everything
- Lelouch ponders about his 'brother' and Nunnally's whereabouts
- Karen corners Lelouch and points a gun at him, demanding answers about what he said back in Episode 25
- Lelouch eventually gains back her trust, and points out her state of almost undress
- Lelouch gives Karen his jacket
- The Vincent is activated, and takes down almost all of the Black Knights
- Urabe sacrifices himself so they can escape, apologizing to Laksharta for deactivating his life-support suit
- Lelouch blows up the Babel tower
- Governor-General Carares is killed when the Babel tower collapses on them. ^^;
- Guilford takes over command, and is shocked when a familiar masked person appears on Television
- Diethard has the best reaction upon seeing Zero alive (he's with Laksharta and Sayoko)
- The student council watches the events with Viletta
- The Knights of the Round also watch the events taking place
- More Diethard fangasms
- Zero makes his speech: "People of Japan, I have returned!"
- It turns out that Zero is making his speech at where the Chinese ambassadors Cao Hai and XingKe are staying
- XingKe goes out to fight the Britannian grunts who are attacking them
- The Vincent suddenly appears and the Pilot (Rollo) comes out, with the intent to kill Zero
- And surprise, surprise, a Geass in Rollo's right eye appears.

Comments

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I was pretty pleasantly surprised by this episode. I couldn't understand all of lot of the more exposition-heavy dialogue parts, though, so I have no real clue about those. I liked that it was going right into exposition this early in the season, though. Knowing Geass it'll lose that steam soon (with next episode looking like school hijinks, it might do so very quickly), but better that it at least have it now. I'm very curious about what the Emperor was saying and Zero's speach at the end. I really couldn't grok either, sadly, as they were the two parts that I found the most interesting out of the episode.

The parallels with the second episode of the first season seemed less heavy-handed than, though every bit as present as last episode's first season parallels. I don't mind either, because I like the effect it makes.

Rollo is truly the successor of FUCKING Ribbons. I wholeheartedly approve. (And he even has a gold mech, now that's irony!)