aznstoner wrote...
WhiteLion wrote...
Here's my opinion on Code Geas, which some people will probably think is blasphemy, but here goes. The explanation contains some spoilers, and it below.
Code Geas should have ended at the conclusion of the first season.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***(for season 1)
They had the show driving towards what could have been made into a powerful finale. Sophie's death had the effect of making Zero commit fully to his more nihilistic side, and caused Suzaku to become consumed by his desire for revenge. Both heroes would fall to their tragic flaws: Lelouche to his arrogance, desire for power, and extreme hatred for his enemy, Suzaku to his closed mindedness, blind devotion to unjust law, and later, becoming obsessed with his revenge.
The Black Revolution fails, and Zero chases Nunnaly, meeting Suzaku at the scene of the final battle. The fight is meaningless: history has been set, the revolution is over, but they still struggle onward. Zero, wracked by guilt, knowing he failed at his chance to fulfill Nunnaly's dream and sacrificed the innocent, grasping to the emptiness of power as the only meaning left him. Suzaku, consumed by the darkness of Sophie's death and unwilling to acknowledge responsibility for a tragedy he was accomplice to. The two finally meet, to settle the score.
Zero reveals his gambit: if he dies, Suzaku dies with him, but Suzaku chooses death for them both. Nunnaly is lost, and with her, her dream for peace in a war ravaged Japan. The horrible cost of Geas is finally revealed.
***END SPOILER***
I'm sure such an ending would leave many people angry, or sad, but it would touch them. It would make them care, and that's what matters. Ultimately, they would remember it, and the meaning of Code Geas. As the show is going now, it merely seems to be looping the same tired plot, each time with a little less enthusiasm, meandering its way towards irrelevance.
What? Seriously, looping the same tired plot? Could you elaborate on that thought?
And if CG ended with season one, then NONE of the story would've been explained.
HMDX wrote...
Also the English dub has one too many roles played by Johnny Yong Bosch.
GOD I'M SICK OF THAT GUY
Why? He was the black Power Ranger, the BLACK POWER RANGER!! I NEVER GET TIRED OF HIM.
*My biased almost man-love opinion of him is due partially to the fact that he went to my highschool.
I simply feel that Code Geas is going the same direction as Death Note went in its second season, which was disappointing compared to the first. In both cases, the story "reboots", the plot device for Code Geas being Lelouche's being spared by the emperor and having his memory erased.
The "buildup" of the struggling revolution starts again, the same tactical plays are reused. Things are different in a few ways, but neither side seems to have learned from their tactical errors. The battles, on the large scale, play out like poorly planned games of chess in which each side has never seem the other's style of play before, swinging back and forth in a flurry of blunders and brilliancies. The whole show seems like no one has learned anything, and they are playing out the same drama.
As for your assertion of inconsistencies and imcompleteness if the show were to end at season 1, but I think most of those things, such as V.V., the emperor's thought elevators, etc, were merely setup for a continuation of the show and contributed nothing to the plot of season 1. They could have been cut and wrapped up the show with no loss. Even with them, I'll take the inconsistency to get a meaningful conclusion, rather than having a popular show milked for all it's worth and degrading into mediocrity.
I loved season 1 of Code Geas, and was always excited about the new episodes, watching them as early as possible. Season 2 has been watchable, but the excitement is gone, it feels tired to me.