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23-25
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*he is
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Nunaly and Schneizel apparently gave warning to the people of Pendragon before bombing their homes and infrastructure, which totally isn't a thing that actual settler colonies do. Especially not, like, Israel, or anything like that that'd be a little concerning
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"The damage to the city was significant but we did everything we could to minimize the damage" this is IOF propaganda
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Time will tell if the show knows this is what it's doing
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Nina put a limiter on her nuke?
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So Schneizel is a liar interesting ok so Code Geass did do this one on purpose
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Schneizel actually has an ideology which is a rare thing for Code Geass villains
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The Black Knights are willing to join with their colonizers if they kill Lelouch. Now this is the nonsensical bullshit I've come to expect from Code Geass, that's better
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Schneizel: "Eh, what's 2 billion lives? I can always start again. Make another kid."
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Being charitable, we can say Code Geass maybe wants to talk about how common enemies can be misleading, but in reality it's "if you're against Lelouch you're bad and irrational" again
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Also, this isn't worse than nuking entire populations off the planet
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Code Geass has a fairly strong soundtrack and it's shining through rn
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it's like that one part of Hamilton except worse somehow
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episode 24 😳
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Code Geass is actually pretty close to a compelling story here with the fleijas. I just said the show needs to "commit". Right now we have Schneizel who's perfectly willing to genocide 3 in 10 people on earth and rule as a dictator if it means peace... (1/4)
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...but then we have characters like Nina, Kallen, and Xingke who don't agree with this but enable this anyway for no reason other than we're supposed to like them. Then we have Nunaly who's a good person who can do no wrong so she's being lied to and coerced (2/4)
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On the other side, we have Suzaku, a war criminal, and Lelouch, a war criminal. Both of them have killed innocent civilians and are proud of it. (3/4)
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If we instead had, one side who was okay with killing civilians because they thought their rule was the only way to peace, and another side who built a coherent ideology to oppose this over the show, this arc would be incredibly compelling. Instead it's half-baked (4/4)
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It's true that movements in real life aren't always ideologically coherent but storytelling wise if we don't have coherent groups and movements the story is super limited in what it can actually say
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Suzaku hasn't even not nuked anyone before. He's just not correctly the one with the nukes
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Nunaly nukes her brother
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Raghava points out that, at this point, all of the main characters are hwite well they said Britannian but I say HWITE
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this is the Ashford Academy thing but worse we're STILL undoing the consequences of episode 18, an episode I more or less actually liked
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Why make nukes for your story if they don't kill anyone
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The story acts like Lelouch, thematically, represents change and the future whereas his opponents represent stagnation and the present. But every time Lelouch accomplishes something it is indistinguishable from what came before
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He *recolonized* Japan. He undid a change
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Lelouch prerecorded that ENTIRE conversation and predicted everything Schneizel was going to say? I guess he did it with Mao in season 1, but Mao was basically a child and the conversation wasn't that long lol, lmao
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Episode 25 of 25 😳😳
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buffering ;(
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Like she's going to try and kill him and it's... I can't even muster up my classic Suzaku rage uh I mean haha die trash
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Lelouch and Nunaly are speaking as if Nunaly is a person with ideas, who wants things and I'm like y'know where was this in season 1? Or even in season 2? Why is it the finale where this happens for the first time when Nunaly is HOLDING THE KEY TO A NUCLEAR WARHEAD
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Lelouch: "Our history is struggle" your history is colonialism
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Suzaku: "You could've used the system to achieve your ideals" man what the fuck are you talking about Suzaku I'm back now fuckin kill him
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Suzaku is fucking trash lmaoooo he really had me for a sec
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Crispin Freeman is talented too
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I just didn't want Suzaku's comeuppance to be "Critical support for Suzaku Kururugi in his struggled against a nuclear-armed imperialist reactionary power"
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WHY DO I FEEL SO EMPTY
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"Zero will establish the free marketplace of ideas"
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The series ends by making Suzaku world president I requested the opposite of this
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Suzaku solves hunger and poverty
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Suzaku ends hate crimes
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So how am I feeling? I don't know. Kinda dead inside?
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Interesting thing about Code Geass is that even though my complaints turned into this series of reaction threads, I didn't actually hate every last bit of it. In fact, the times where I saw the show that so many other people enjoyed make me the most frustrated
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Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion review Weaves together a somewhat compelling rivalry between Suzaku and Lelouch, but most of the rest show straight up doesn't work docs.google.com/document/d/1hsaEOm4qLu25Tikv-_7uZuoYgv0VKN-vp0mvxLaB3Xw/edit#heading=h.4z8ldorvax9u Recommendation: no Coherence: Passing grade Politics: Straight to Hell
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Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 review Better than S1 in a lot of important ways, but less consistent overall, with a failure to commit to key ideas that would have made S1 work docs.google.com/document/d/1hsaEOm4qLu25Tikv-_7uZuoYgv0VKN-vp0mvxLaB3Xw/edit#heading=h.4z8ldorvax9u Recommendation: no Coherence: Sloppy Politics: Straight to Hell