Lelouch's Path into Darkness

[crossxx.livejournal.com]

:( Hai guyz, read what I have to say nao!

I'd always feared Sunrise would take a copout and direct Code Geass R2 through the path of Death Note, where the hero becomes pointedly the anti-hero and his death is happily justified to the viewer due to the hero's eventual ignoble intentions. Lelouch started out with incredible intentions, wishing to create a world of peace and equality. Sure, he's been the cause of a lot of deaths, but they were somehow always for a reasonable cause. However, watching episode 14, I'm starting to fear that Lulu's batshitting is just the beginning of more senseless destruction. In 14, even his subordinates remarked on the parallel between Britannia/Japan and OoBK/Geass Cult with regards to the slaughter.

It worked for Death Note but for Code Geass, having a vilified Lulu die in the end will be utter crap. One of the reasons why I like Code Geass is because  Lulu keeps a sensible head on his shoulders. Unfortunately, I just don't see the CG world just stepping around Lulu's massacre with all the dissent from the order and given the flow of the plot, I doubt this will be an isolated "sorry haha!" incident.

Comments

[chiapetzukamori.livejournal.com]

best. .gif. EVER XD

[neltis-screi.livejournal.com]

lol, many might prolly be annoyed with this comparison but it's not really that easy to avoid comparing. they do have similarities. I think I never said this here, but I must give Death Note proper credit for leading me to Code Geass :D I was a Death Note rabid fan before Code Geass came. I read a post saying CG is kind of the same. so I went to check it out. and now what? huh, what's Death Note again? XD haha. jk. I freakin love both.

I know slaughtering those kids is evil, but I'm not seeing a degraded Lulu dead in the end because of it. simply because I've started seeing those nightmares since Season 1. LOL

no, I'm not expecting him to live. BUT I AM DESPERATELY HOPING HE DOES LIVE. that is if, if it goes along right for him. cause you know, there are some cases wherein death is classic. XD I just hope that when he dies, he dies with a proper death. It's going to be a pain to see him die but it's even more painful to see him dying without having done or proving anything at all. my first time to sympathize with a character this much. i don't care what others say, I'm a Lulutard and I love him XP at least end him decently Sunrise.

[likeviolins.livejournal.com]

In a way, then, everyone is innately destructive, the only reason it matters is the side that you're on. Which is why I feel bad for them, because they are still people with agency and a conscience, yet the only reason they were killed was because they were perceived as a threat for acts they were forced to commit or had the potential to commit.

But obviously we differ here. :)

[spleener.livejournal.com]

Light fans may come here and disagree with me, but Light is very clearly supposed to be seen as the bad guy from episode 2 at the latest. Lelouch is supposed to be a more sympathetic character- yeah, he's a conniving backstabbing bastard, but he's still shown to be human and have people he cares about- he does plenty of monstrous things, but he's not a monster. I'm not saying he's a perfect angel who's justified in everything he does- he's *not*, that's the whole point of his character, he's supposed to be a morally ambiguous protagonist, you're not supposed to clearly like or dislike him and everything he does. But he's nowhere near Light, who's very clearly supposed to be a villainous protagonist.

i agree

[mz-shiro-030.livejournal.com]

hey i agree with what you wrote because unlike light yagami, lulu was makin a better world for his younger sister and was willing to sacrifice himself for the people that he cares for. but light on the other hand would sacrifice his whole family if he has 2 just to make a better world for him. light wants to rule the new world but lulu wants to make a better world for his sister nunnally. and i believe charles IS trying to destroy the countries. i think that deep down inside he is really upset about wat happened to lulu's mother though he doesn't show it because he's a king and king's rarely show emotions when somthing happens to someone. i think he's destroying the countries for lulu's mother but doesnt know that he's doing it for her. and i also think that killing those children that were with v.v. deserved to die because this kind of stuff might happened again the future is unpredictible.

[xcutout-miracle.livejournal.com]

I Agree. Light was evil from the get-go.
Ugh. (I seriously hate Light with a passion.)
And Lelouch wasn't always like that. He cares about alot of people, and he's trying to to make a world for those people that he loves. And he just lost someone he might have possibly loved/ he really cared about. Grief will make anyone do really stupid things. :P

[konataizumi-san.livejournal.com]

I believe the massacre of the Geass cult was in fact justified. These people were being experimented on not to mention they were being used as tools of destruction. So either they were suffering and wanted to die, or they liked killing and deserved to die. Yes even the children.

Re: i agree

[fox-holland.livejournal.com]

Light is a jerk >8V

[typo1138.livejournal.com]

........

...touche, my good sir -_- That is a good point, and for some reason my head didn't connect the two together ^^;;