I personally thought that it was pretty obvious from the last season that at some point the immortality of the immortals would be challenged. The truth is, very few works of fiction have true immortality - conditional or escapable immortality seemed like something that would fit well with the world Geass was setting up, at least to me. Especially given C.C.'s mysterious wish being foreshadowed to be her death, it seemed particularly likely, at least to me, that V.V. could be killed in some fashion as well.
Not a great many animes will leave antagonists that dangerous alive, especially when said anime has as many powerful antagonists as Geass does. They're going to have to start eliminating the ones that will die, and I'm a little surprised that they haven't eliminated more thus far, honestly. By Sunrise standards, I'd say that they've been downright merciful. Even as powerful as V.V. is, it would have seemed strange writing for him to get as thoroughly defeated as he was in 14 and then to come back at full power again - dying or being seriously incapacitated seemed to be the most likely fate for him, at least, in my opinion, otherwise it would risk making him a cheaply repetitive antagonist or keep the situation too stagnant. By giving Charles the immortality and removing V.V., but also incapacitating C.C., it keeps roughly the same balance of power while still changing it up enough that it presents a different situation for the characters to deal with.
V.V. didn't really stand much of a chance of being a final boss, either, with the likes of Charles and Suzaku to contend with. V.V.'s connection to Lelouch is tenuous and second-hand at best, and for him to have survived until the end would likely have only confused the issue of who the main enemies were. Lelouch's personal revenge and vendettas have always been the driving force behind his fight - the antagonists who survive to the end will have to be characters with personal enough ties to Lelouch for it to matter, and V.V. simply couldn't offer that.
I'm particularly curious about that scene myself, however. I'm not sure if they'll ever revisit it, but what intrigues me the most is what I see to be a Lelouch and Nunnally comparison. I find it interesting that rather than deepen the similarities between Lelouch and his father, they instead chose to make Charles the younger sibling.
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Not a great many animes will leave antagonists that dangerous alive, especially when said anime has as many powerful antagonists as Geass does. They're going to have to start eliminating the ones that will die, and I'm a little surprised that they haven't eliminated more thus far, honestly. By Sunrise standards, I'd say that they've been downright merciful. Even as powerful as V.V. is, it would have seemed strange writing for him to get as thoroughly defeated as he was in 14 and then to come back at full power again - dying or being seriously incapacitated seemed to be the most likely fate for him, at least, in my opinion, otherwise it would risk making him a cheaply repetitive antagonist or keep the situation too stagnant. By giving Charles the immortality and removing V.V., but also incapacitating C.C., it keeps roughly the same balance of power while still changing it up enough that it presents a different situation for the characters to deal with.
V.V. didn't really stand much of a chance of being a final boss, either, with the likes of Charles and Suzaku to contend with. V.V.'s connection to Lelouch is tenuous and second-hand at best, and for him to have survived until the end would likely have only confused the issue of who the main enemies were. Lelouch's personal revenge and vendettas have always been the driving force behind his fight - the antagonists who survive to the end will have to be characters with personal enough ties to Lelouch for it to matter, and V.V. simply couldn't offer that.
I'm particularly curious about that scene myself, however. I'm not sure if they'll ever revisit it, but what intrigues me the most is what I see to be a Lelouch and Nunnally comparison. I find it interesting that rather than deepen the similarities between Lelouch and his father, they instead chose to make Charles the younger sibling.