Arguably, there are a lot of points you have there that could be completely flipped around. Suzaku is VERY different from what he was like in the first season, and while how much he's using Nunally is totally up for debate, he's definitely not the all-niave and lets-do-everything-the-nice-way guy he used to be.
Also, Lelouch... I don't necessarily agree with you there. Like with Death Note, the main character isn't necessarily evil or completely doomed to fail. Lelouch is extremely intelligent, but he comes across as niave to me. The only people he wants to kill are in the Royal Family. He's so incredibly driven by this goal that yes, he is willing to kill others and to destroy armies of people, but that doesn't mean he's out to spill as much blood as possible. He's simply doing what he believes is necessary.
And yes, his view on that is extremely warped by now because he's digging a huge hole under himself, but it wasn't like he was OUT to kill Euphie. We all know how that one went down, he opted to take the only route he thought he had --to use the advantage for his own good. I don't think his "you were probably my first love" line was faked, imho. If he had his choice, Euphie wouldn't have died and he would have willingly ditched the Black Knights to save Nunally, which to me, was a HUGE decision and made him very different from Yagami Light in Death Note, who simply lost all love for anyone. Right now, and at the end of Season 1, he was in so much trouble that he was spontaneously making decisions. He knew that no one would believe him if he said he didn't want to kill Euphie, so he didn't bother. That didn't mean he didn't want to say something though.
And honestly, I think Lelouch is much more believable than Suzaku (from Season 1, anyways.) We've all wanted vengence, we've all hated people, we've all got a dark side. That's just human nature. Suzaku didn't become interesting to me until he became more like Lelouch, because I don't think most people would say "I want to change this country from the inside" when that country took over the country that was originally there and lead to the degradation of your homeland.
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Also, Lelouch... I don't necessarily agree with you there. Like with Death Note, the main character isn't necessarily evil or completely doomed to fail. Lelouch is extremely intelligent, but he comes across as niave to me. The only people he wants to kill are in the Royal Family. He's so incredibly driven by this goal that yes, he is willing to kill others and to destroy armies of people, but that doesn't mean he's out to spill as much blood as possible. He's simply doing what he believes is necessary.
And yes, his view on that is extremely warped by now because he's digging a huge hole under himself, but it wasn't like he was OUT to kill Euphie. We all know how that one went down, he opted to take the only route he thought he had --to use the advantage for his own good. I don't think his "you were probably my first love" line was faked, imho. If he had his choice, Euphie wouldn't have died and he would have willingly ditched the Black Knights to save Nunally, which to me, was a HUGE decision and made him very different from Yagami Light in Death Note, who simply lost all love for anyone. Right now, and at the end of Season 1, he was in so much trouble that he was spontaneously making decisions. He knew that no one would believe him if he said he didn't want to kill Euphie, so he didn't bother.
That didn't mean he didn't want to say something though.And honestly, I think Lelouch is much more believable than Suzaku (from Season 1, anyways.) We've all wanted vengence, we've all hated people, we've all got a dark side. That's just human nature. Suzaku didn't become interesting to me until he became more like Lelouch, because I don't think most people would say "I want to change this country from the inside" when that country took over the country that was originally there and lead to the degradation of your homeland.
I'm rambling, sorry. ^^; Just my thoughts.