The entire Nunnally thing seems to be the writers trying to wean Lelouch away from total emotional dependence on his sister, because it's been again and again highlighted as a major flaw in his plans. It makes him human, but it also makes him make poor decisions whenever she's involved, and he has to overcome that first. I'd prefer to reserve judgment on the whole Nunnally affair until we see more of it.
My first thought at seeing the unfinished cross is that Carve-tan was a casualty of the Rebellion. Thinking back on it, however, was it coincidence that Rolo brought up his own Geass' weakness in this episode? Maybe there are nullifiers or limitations that we don't know about yet? If he still has the "live" Geass, things could get pretty unfortunately for Suzaku even without any catastrophic backfiring - he's always had a martyr complex, wants to die to save other people (not sure how that's gone now, but). The Geass could force him to abandon his allies to die to save his own skin, if it is activated.
I agree especially with the interaction with Millay. Out of all the scenes with Suzaku in this episode, he seemed to give the most... unguarded? Natural? response when she was asking about Lloyd. As much as Suzaku tries to keep his distance from other people, there are still those he obviously cares about.
And on that note, the KoR worry me. We haven't seen enough of Anya, but Gino is trying very hard to crack Suzaku's mask, and heaven help him if he actually succeeds, given what usually happens to characters in that position (espeically in mecha anime). It's kind of sad that he is introduced as such a likeable character but seems (from genre convention) to be utterly doomed.
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The entire Nunnally thing seems to be the writers trying to wean Lelouch away from total emotional dependence on his sister, because it's been again and again highlighted as a major flaw in his plans. It makes him human, but it also makes him make poor decisions whenever she's involved, and he has to overcome that first. I'd prefer to reserve judgment on the whole Nunnally affair until we see more of it.
My first thought at seeing the unfinished cross is that Carve-tan was a casualty of the Rebellion. Thinking back on it, however, was it coincidence that Rolo brought up his own Geass' weakness in this episode? Maybe there are nullifiers or limitations that we don't know about yet? If he still has the "live" Geass, things could get pretty unfortunately for Suzaku even without any catastrophic backfiring - he's always had a martyr complex, wants to die to save other people (not sure how that's gone now, but). The Geass could force him to abandon his allies to die to save his own skin, if it is activated.
I agree especially with the interaction with Millay. Out of all the scenes with Suzaku in this episode, he seemed to give the most... unguarded? Natural? response when she was asking about Lloyd. As much as Suzaku tries to keep his distance from other people, there are still those he obviously cares about.
And on that note, the KoR worry me. We haven't seen enough of Anya, but Gino is trying very hard to crack Suzaku's mask, and heaven help him if he actually succeeds, given what usually happens to characters in that position (espeically in mecha anime). It's kind of sad that he is introduced as such a likeable character but seems (from genre convention) to be utterly doomed.