when Ritsuko times out

Finally, I can sleep easy without looking forward to next week with as much excitement – which should have Gundam 00 in it. I need two series to fill the Geass gap, and obviously G00 will be one of them.

But back to Code Geass. R2 could have been much better. Everything felt really rushed, unlike G00. G00 had lots of different scenes for each character in each episode, so you could say they were really cramming for time, but it did feel… calculated. The adage holds that the best tricks are usually the old ones, but did Lelouch really have to record a video to defeat Schneizel? As I’ve said before, that should be nigh impossible. I hardly saw a new trick a week anymore, which holds true with the adage, but what’s with the shift in the first place? And the ending – it didn’t give me the same feeling as other series’ endings did. But that’s Code Geass for you. And R2, at that. It manages to say a lot to make up for the lack of immediate… impact. The Zero Requiem was… noble, I’ll give you that, but things like that (not many in Geass) are exactly why cartoons are cartoons, even though it might have been typical of Lelouch. And what’s with Nunnally automagically realizing everything in the end? EDIT: no, this doesn’t work, unless you can prove that Codes transfer by mere contact/survive being absorbed in the world of C. And you still have to prove that people can go through other people’s memories when their Code is activated.

Thankfully, Geass still had a lot going for it. Characters, the plot still managed to stay fresh (while tasting weird in some places), and the music at the very least reminded me of the first season. In the end, it was worthwhile, and I hope Taniguchi & Co. make a re-interpretation of the events in Code Geass, as it seemed they weren’t really happy with R2 either. So there is still tomorrow. Oh yeah, and no 3rd season please.

EDIT: oh yeah, what happened to Xingke? not like I care, though.