if you consider that Tieria is the one with the most direct link to Veda (even though, after Aolia's death, i think Veda is deadzo), you could infer that Louise has joined the new Celestial Being...

and seriously... was anyone not expecting Graham to be the awesome masked guy of this Gundam series?

now, we are not surprised that Ali is alive, but Patrick!? wtf?

and here we've got Livonze, the key villain everyone thought he was, with a whole posse of... shrouded in shadow faced dudes... presumably all like him/Tieria... which could result in a posse of seriously dangerous computer/human hybrid opponents...

and again, no surprise that Saji's in space now... i'm curious as hell to see what the new Celestial Being looks like as far as mobile suits and members...

all in all, exactly the knock-down, drag-out brawl and build up to cliffhanger i was expecting for the finale... even down to the elapsed time scenario for everything...

and btw, not just Code Geass next week... Macross Frontier's starting up as well.