Lelouch's Path into Darkness

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:( 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

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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.

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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