Episode 15 Official Site Summary + mininews

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- The Official Site has released its summary of Episode 15, Kassai no Mao. Translation :



Episode 15 : Mao of the Applause

C.C. states that she will break off her contract with Lelouch and go back to Mao. Not listening to his objections, she left [Lelouch's] side. C.C. knows that Mao's objective is her, and decides to meet him again to take responsibility. At the appointed amusement park, she points a gun at him, but cannot pull the trigger. At the same time, in order to save C.C., Lelouch ponders how to fight an opponent who can read his every thought.



- In unrelated news that probably won't affect any of us here but is interesting to know anyway, Biglobe has put up Code Geass blog design templates for its users. There is the 'general series poster' we're used to seeing, one of Lelouch, one of the Lancelot, and one of...*drums roll*...Orange! The last one strikes me as awesome news, for some reason.

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Papillon oh dude. That guy totally wins the Freakiest Costume award of any year. XD And he keeps his stuff in a CROTCH POCKET how insane is that. XDD

*ahem*

I actually am not sure whose road is better right now. Chances are, they shall both suck. XD Except S. has Euphie, who's infinitely friendlier to mental health than C.C., lucky him.

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Papillon is marvellous! :D

I think Suzaku's is better myself; people are always on about what a hypocrite he is, as if they're perfect paragons who always do exactly what they say...;)) Suzaku is *trying* to recover from something dark in his past and that's the main thing. ^-^ Lelouch right now is just digging himself deeper in. :)

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I agree with folks who say Suzaku is a hypocrite. But the awesome is they ALL are. XD Suzaku's main point in this isn't really in his do-say affliction, it's more about his perception-action front. Which makes it more interesting.They're immensely weak and flawed, it's why I like them.

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Lol, I don't doubt Suzaku is being hypocritical; my main problem with the rabid haters is that they say that of him as if they've never hypocritical in their lives....lol. >:) They live in sainthood, I guess, to be able to pass such judgement. XD But as I say, he's trying; he just hasn't managed to reconcile what he's saying with what he actually needs to do yet. It's almost like his brain is split in two between the part of him that realises that to acheive his goals he has to work with what the real world offers and the idealist part of him (which is what we hear coming out of his mouth...) XD Bless him. He'll get there.

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Oh, they hate him for being a hypocrite? Then I wonder who they like in this series since it definitely cannot be Fan Favourite LL. XD I can see if they hate him for being on a moral high horse all the time because I can see why that'd grate on people's nerves (but I bless the writers; wonderfully refreshing that the 'morally correct guy' can actually not be right all the time).

His brain is split, I agree. XD I am not exactly sure how the split works, he's complicated, but there's definitely something not quite right going on in his head. And it's more delicate than most people give him credit. Pffft.

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Well, I am not sure *everyone* is hypocritcal. I don't think Lloyd is. Lloyd is just Lloyd. :D He says what he wants to say (and it's usually socially dodgy enough to make Cecile dispair! XDD)

The usual reason why people hate someone on a 'moral high horse' is because those people (in this case Suzaku) point out something glaringly wrong that someone they like is doing that they're conveniently ignoring...XD

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Lloyd? Lloyd isn't hypocritical, he's outright unethical and has no shame about it. XD That's awesome, of course, but it's hardly a 'better' trait if the public outcry is for hypocrisy.

Actually, I think it's the "YOU have the invincible mech shut up D:< and you're not that much better yourself" syndrome. I think people should mind it considerably less if, say, Ougi is the one doing the criticising?

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Yup, Lloyd is just a complete scientist. XD You get what you see with Lloyd. It's why some of the things he says are so funny - they're not things people with social graces are not supposed to say, like pointing out Suzaku's glaring logical errors. But Lloyd says them anyway. XD

Yes, when it comes down to it, the reason so many people hate on Suzaku is he's in Lelouch's way (with a mech people like to moan is a deus ex machina, but is actually perfectly legitamate in the plot, and not even Suzaku's!). XD

And yet so many ship them as a couple (which is totally unfeasible in my opinion; there would be nothing when it's actually revealed that beyond their old friendship - which is just reminiscing really - they'd hate each other now, as soon as they found out who the other was!)

Intererestingly, the (I think) Newtype supplement suggests that Cornelia is stronger than Schneizel in military power; but Schneizel is smarter. :) Hence having Lloyd and the Lancelot. :D He might not be quite the physical soldfier his sister is, but he has the brains to employ the best to build a custom mech for him (or for his personal army? He might not pilot it himself at all).

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Suzaku being a completely embarrassing person in his Nice Guy Mode + Lelouch being a really, really emotionally dependent person though he is oh so in denial about it = basis for SuzaLulu, at least the Japanese side of fandom. Western fen seems to be leaning more towards crack.

Hahaha. Basically, LL = Schneizel, Kallen = Cornelia. From the big picture, of course. I don't think Schneizel is a mechpilot guy, really. The clothes he's shown in, for one thing, is not a military man's clothes. He's more likely the commander.

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Kallen = Cornelia Except for the facts that Corneila is beautiful, a talented pilot and doesn't get lame crushes on people when she doesn't even know who they actually are...>:) *I love Karen - can you tell?*

I am a real yaoi fangirl, don't get me wrong, but the relationship doesn't work for me. I don't see it at all. :) So there we go. I am one of these yawnsome people who has to see some chemistry to ship a couple. And here, I personally don't. Not that kind of chemistry.

As I say, I can't see Lelouch with anyone at this point. And Suzaku has fallen for Euphemia. (Ambitiously! XD Though you know what, even though he's an 'eleven', if Suzaku could romance his daughter and hold off the opposition to him, I bet the Emperor would be impressed and might well give it his private blessing XD)

I love the thought of Schneizel in his new mech. He'd get up in there, into the cockpit and Cornelia would get in hers and off she'd go. And then a few minutes later, she'd get a call from Schneizel saying "So...how'd you actually start these things up then?"....lol!

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Yes, aside from Lloyd, I have the impression that you start off affectionately listing all the stupidities in the people you love. XD And that might be because Lloyd currently has done no stupidities, except pissing Cecile off.

I am not a yaoi fangirl (except for very special occasions where the manlove IS the point of a very good series, and done convincingly) and thus cannot really see the appeal. The chemistry used to be there at episode...6, however. 14 DOES have one "WTF Suzaku" line, but considering what they said to each other in 13, well.

LL/CC is my preferred pairing. It works like a falling Hindenburg at the moment, sure, but give them looooooots of time they might crack under pressure. What better pairing than that between the two most selfish monsters? At present, I doubt LL even sees himself in that kind of light ('romanceable character') , even if he's a romanticist at heart. XD

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XD Well, I do like to be honest about the people I like, and as they're mostly villains, I'm pretty much happy with the fact that they're a bad old lot, but they have their saving graces. ;) I guess it's important to me not to whitewash away all their most interesting psychological tangles - why excuse away what makes them interesting you klnow? :)

I also like relationships. Yaoi is hot, but I don't go for random pairings; all my Code Geass ships, as it happens, are het. That's just the way the show has turned out for me. I won't build in boy's love for the sake of it. ;) Though...I am certain there was a bit of a spark of something between Gilford and Jeremiah. But unfortuneately, the scene wasn't longh enough to get more than a brief impression. They obviously know each other though.

(I love the way Cecile treats Lloyd because it's so affectionate really. She just thinks he's a terrible idiot. XD Which he's not exactly; he just says what he thinks unfiltered through the normal social graces we learn to use. That might be aprt of what Schneizel likes about him, I guess).

Lelouch and CC certainly deserve each other. ;) Poor Mao. And yes, even though I was never her fan, poor Shirley. And poor Karen, with the biggest rude awakening to come. >:)