If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Aww... such a nice image. Lelouch is even playing with sleeping C.C.'s hair. Though you can very well imagine that scene happening just prior to Lelouch and Suzaku travelling to Japan and the end of the zero requiem, casting a bit more morbid light on it. Lelouch's expression is that of a man making peace with himself and the world, and Suzaku is looking at the horizon with a serious expression, knowing his longest work is only beginning.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Here it is.
Code Geass R2: Episode 09 by Chihiro
EDIT: I will wait for more people to watch it before I comment.
Wait, does this mean only one episode will get released this week? Then the preview from before is a gigantic spoiler.
Last edited by shinta|hikari; Sun, 06-08-2008 at 12:09 PM.
Peace.
Thanks for the link.
Will watch it ASAP (after formula 1) and update.
I'm just baffled at this show.
I can't say more because everyone should rejoice watching it without any hints!
Last edited by David75; Sun, 06-08-2008 at 02:18 PM.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Here is the gg one.
Code Geass R2: Episode 09 by gg.
Peace.
I didn't watch last week's preview, and i guess others didn't either, so if its such a spoiler, it'd be nice not to discuss it here!
I find it weird that Zero lost to his brother because of pride. I don't remember him being in such a situation before, but he's shown enough ruthlessness before that pride shouldn't get in the way of his objectives.
Don't worry. I am not planning to discuss it here. Rather, my comment should serve as a warning for others who do not want to be spoiled before watching this episode.
Lelouch almost died in S1 because of his pride. Remember when he tried to confront Cornelia despite C.C.'s warnings and had to get his ass saved. That was all because of his pride.
Peace.
Schneizel's last move was forbidden.Originally Posted by Darknodin
But Lelouch couldn't use that argument since this move was all about innerfire and white king action, with pure intentions and so on.
Should Lelouch argue, he would've been seen as cheap. Truth is the match was a draw, that's all. They needed to play again. But to me a draw is already a loss for Lelouch, more over he was clearly inferor as the threefold was due to him having no more options for he lost too many pieces.
Scheizel's last move was impossible rule wise, then useless chess wise.
But was very important for image and to understand his oponent's psychology, as he stated.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
But the threefold rule is a draw for a reason. The fact that Lelouch was able to make such a situation possible despite having fewer pieces is a testament to his skill, which even Schneizel recognizes rivals his own. As I am sure you know, the number of pieces on hand is only a small part of chess. Positioning is also key.
The move was indeed illegal according to chess rules, but the rationale behind that is because it would be like surrendering by allowing the opponent to take the King (which is done by resigning, and only a fool would do it by mistake). The chess match was a definite draw, but Lelouch lost the more important battle this time by letting his personality be read by his opponent, a fatal mistake, but also a great opportunity in the future if he is able to deal with his prideful stubbornness.
Peace.
Well, Tian Zi is cute. A little annoying at the end repeatedly calling for Xing Ke, but cute nonetheless.
I think if there is anything that pisses me off more than some of the shit the Britannian's and Suzaku have been doing, it's slimy ministers like the eunuchs that use their leader as a puppet for their own ends.
Still, the one that really shined for me this episode was Kaguya. She's very close friends with Tian Zi, so that should impart some trust of Zero in Tian Zi. Not to mention her excellent verbal sparring with Suzaku and Schnizel when the three of them entered. Just as she moves normally, she spun and danced all around the political bullshit and made Suzaku lose some face.
Five stars for Milly's dress.
Now there are plenty more reasons to hate Nina. From all her hyperlesbian cries for her fallen idol, insults to Suzaku, downright nasty words for her best friend, and all the other whining, there won't ever be a time or any conditions I would not hate her. Especially for the way she treated Milly. She's blind if she thinks that Milly never did anything for her. She put herself squarely in the middle of the absolute highest amount of danger when she tried to persuade Nina out of the Nuclear Knightmare. Nina is so disgustingly blinded by Euphie it is sickening.
At least Kallen showed her what for.
This series needs more C.C.! It's as if she has become just another background character.
Quite interesting development. Lelouch's plan can't be as brutish as it seems at the end of this episode, I reckon, but exactly what it contains remains to be seen. He might geass Tian Zi for forced cooperation, and it might not even be a bad thing, but who knows. I guess it depends on the complexity of his plan. But with his geass plans don't need to be so complex. We can't forget, either, that there are still some high ranking British people in the country, so Lelouch would also have chances to orchestrate a conflict causing a war between Britannia and China, thus sealing China's destiny to a one favorable to the Black Knights.
In any case it's high time for action, and the next ep should have some. With or without our old immortal friend: Orange-kun.
Edit: Oh. Where's Rollo? Was he in this ep?
Yeah, I didn't see Rollo anywhere. Maybe he's on a mission by his lonesome?
Wonder what this means for Xing Ke? He tries to topple the Black Knights?
That's a very good question. I don't generally discount anything Lelouch does as sloppiness or lack of planning, and thus I reckon there almost has to be a reason why he pissed off Xing Ke. After all, he could have simply cooperated as well, but now Lelouch pretty much opposed him. Thus it seems like a bit too easy option that Lelouch would simply geass the empress and thus ultimately gain also Xing Ke, because the dude wouldn't probably disobey should Tian Zi ask for something. However, such a thing would render Lelouch's brutish act somewhat redudant.
I seem to remember Xing Ke coughing up blood in the previous episode, so I deem he is going to die soon. This makes me think Lelouch intends to use him for some nefarious plot that somehow either makes the Chinese like the Black Knights more or China and Britannia hate each other more. Well, it could be something else as well, but I don't believe Lelouch would simply piss off a man of his calibre for no reason at all.
It's also worth remembering that since Kaguya likes Tian Zi so much, I can't see Lelouch mistreating her too much.
Uh, just watched the episode.
What a shitty one.
Having seen this episode i have to say that the 1st season was far better.
The 2nd seasons seems to get nowhere. This episode hat so much unnecessary scenes...
And Zero just cant win in this season...the chess-play was cancelled, sigh.
and wth was that cheap scene change...at one moment we saw the celebration, the next we´re at the wedding...i thought the episode was over and it was the preview for next week, but now...was weird.
And the "Xing Ke...Xing Ke....Xing Ke"...was extremely embarrassing to watch. The ridiculous movement of the little princess, lol. Felt retarded.
I really hope they speed up the important parts of the story, right now it all feels so unimportant.
It's probably just because you lack any sort of understanding.
I don't even know where to start...
You rant about the "unnecessary scenes", yet you don't like how they skipped right to the wedding. Everything in between would have been unnecessary. The party thing took place late at night, and the wedding was in the next morning. What would you like to see in between?
See, in season one of Code Geass, it went from one exciting mission to another.
Remember Lelouch´ first appearance as he lead the terrorists.
Then we have the big battle on that mountain, where Cornelia participated.
Then there´s these other japanese liberation front, that "kidnapped" a whole building, where Euphemia was, accidently, as well.
And so on.
Season 2 has nothing like that, even more so, it seems all plans of Lelouch fail, at least to some degree. He couldnt save his sister, he couldnt clearly win the chess-game, and and and.
What i mean with "unncecessary scenes" is, that the introduction to the celebration was way too long. They should have started the chess game earlier, focused on it, Lelouch should have won, thus being able to go on with his plan of overtaking the whole group of people with his Geass, and so on. But nothing. The series was more straight forward in season one. Maybe you can understand that. I mean, Code Geass season 2 is far from being really bad, but i liked season 1 better.
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