Whoa, calm down there. It's perfectly okay to dislike characters for whatever reason. However, if you're going to attempt any level of character analysis, you should try to distance your own feelings and values a bit more. You should take on the situation from within each character's own value framework and subjective experiences.
I was glad she told him he was wrong. Because he is. No, you think he's wrong. There's a difference. Lelouch is quite justified if you approach things from his own standpoint.
Both Lelouch and Suzaku are meant to be morally gray characters. If you trace their reasonings from the beginning and apply their own subjective experiences, everything that they do makes sense. Everything that they do is justified, in a way. However, if you as a viewer step back, you realize that something is just not quite right. At some point in time, they both become some sort of objectively unjust. AND THAT'S WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
You're supposed to feel sympathy for these characters and still feel that they brought it upon themselves. They're tragic, they're human, they're broken, they're petty, and they don't choose the most optimal (speaking as detached viewers) paths for their goals, but that makes them all the more real.
Sure, Suzaku generally gets shat on, while Lelouch generally gets a free pass, but shitting on Lelouch in turn isn't gonna help the situation. This LJ comm is actually one of the most even-handed places on the internet for Geass discussion, so bringing up Lelouch's hypocrisies would be well-accepted. There's no need to take extreme opinions.
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I was glad she told him he was wrong. Because he is.
No, you think he's wrong. There's a difference. Lelouch is quite justified if you approach things from his own standpoint.
Both Lelouch and Suzaku are meant to be morally gray characters. If you trace their reasonings from the beginning and apply their own subjective experiences, everything that they do makes sense. Everything that they do is justified, in a way. However, if you as a viewer step back, you realize that something is just not quite right. At some point in time, they both become some sort of objectively unjust. AND THAT'S WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
You're supposed to feel sympathy for these characters and still feel that they brought it upon themselves. They're tragic, they're human, they're broken, they're petty, and they don't choose the most optimal (speaking as detached viewers) paths for their goals, but that makes them all the more real.
Sure, Suzaku generally gets shat on, while Lelouch generally gets a free pass, but shitting on Lelouch in turn isn't gonna help the situation. This LJ comm is actually one of the most even-handed places on the internet for Geass discussion, so bringing up Lelouch's hypocrisies would be well-accepted. There's no need to take extreme opinions.