Code Geass R2 — Episode 6
Not my favourite episode. I think the character dynamics is somewhat lacking this time, and the battle scene wasn’t all that exciting either. I think it’s about time Sunrise winds down the series a notch before it runs out of momentum, and start laying the groundwork for a grander set-up.
This week’s raw was slightly delayed because three top Share uploaders were arrested in Japan last week.
Summary
Frankly, not much of interest happens in this episode. Lelouch manages to survive Suzaku’s test with the help of Rolo, and is now determined to rescue Nunnally.
An air battle involving the Black Knights, the Knights of the Round and Guiliford ensues. During the battle, Karen’s Guren is damaged by Lancelot and falls in a downward spiral of doom as her life flashes before her eyes.
Pantsu!… Wait.
Luckily, deus ex machina is in play and not only does she not die, Guren gets a timely upgrade courtesy of the whip-wielding Indian mad scientist extraordinaire Lakshata Chawla. (The rest of the gang are back from China too.)
That lab coat serves no practical purpose
They wasted all their missile slots for this
Float docked with Guren
Arm docked with Guren
They actually designed a way to fire the new arm upgrade like a missile and attach it mid-air with the Guren. There must be like a total of two out of billions of possible situations where such a capability could have been useful. Guess they lucked out.
I’ve got the power!
It’s about time Guren gets to fly and fire from a distance, because we’ve been reminded about ten billion times of this “weakness” during various point of the series and I’m getting sick of it.
This makes more sense
The upgraded Guren Kashoushiki (紅蓮可翔式) can also fire its spanking new beam weapon in scatter mode, which uses the same amount of energy distributed over a large radius, and serves to temporarily disable rather than destroy enemies.
Go Kallen! Kick some lolicon butt!
That said, I find the whole sentai-style mid-air link-up sequence altogether quite silly, and now that Guren has been upgraded, I hope we don’t ever have to watch that sequence again. Also, isn’t it awfully convenient how only Guren’s right arm gets blown off and the upgrade happens to be the right arm too?
“NOOOoooOOOoooooOOoo!! My cool and composed image is ruined!”
Meh. Other than that, this episode has some Earl Llyod hijinks, a few unimportant characters dying off (fewer seiyuu to pay!) and Lelouch going all emo over Nunnally. (That siscon bastard.)
Nunnally wants to follow in Euphemia’s footsteps and once again create the Japan Special Administrative Region, and requested to be governor by her own accords. This completely nullifies the point of Lelouch’s daring “rescue” mission. Poor Lelouch is unappreciated.
“She’s mine, bitch!”
Hopefully next episode will be more interesting.
On another note, I realized something today: Code Geass is ageist! That’s right, Code Geass discriminates against old people! Have you ever noticed how old(er) people die in far greater numbers in the show than their young bishounen/bishoujo counterparts?
The slumbering dragon has been awaken! It wants milk
Therefore, by my brilliant logical deduction, the Empress of the Chinese Federation is invincible. Long live the empress!
Screencaps
C.C. has a weird sense of occasion
The final boss is bored because Lelouch is taking too long
A grim view of the future for fashion lovers
You just know that this old guy’s a walking dead man
“Virtue, eliminating target!”
Why is she always in a garden? Who builds gardens on a plane anyway?
Zero is rejected
Now it looks like Juggernaut from X-men in gay pride colours
“I can has fly upgradez?”
Oh look. They are still alive. Yay
Is that Impulse?
Go Kallen! <3
SingTel will be bringing the iPhone to Singapore. (Yay.)
I just renewed my Starhub mobile contract for two years. (Boo.)
May 13th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Why do all of you think this is going to be a repeated plot of last season? Nunnally’s beliefs are NOT stupid. What do you want from a girl that’s blinded, crippled, and kidnapped?
How did you come up with Nunnally dying anyway? I believe in god(not), you believe in god, we both go to heaven. Doesn’t work like that…you can start the same and get very different results.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:25 am
@ Shadow (lol, turning into a proper debate :P) - I don’t know, I really can’t quite see that happening - she’s not been portrayed as the type of character who would ever give up on her ideals. I suppose she could be sufficiently caged by Britannia to the point that all her plans fail etc., and Lelouch sees fit to charge in against her will - but honestly, it would just flow so much more smoothly if she dies. He doesn’t have to go emo - just really, really angry. Angry and vengeful Lelouch could be good…
Just a thought - Nunnally doesn’t appear in the OP scene towards the end (the zooming scene where pretty much everybody else is gathered) I think - even Nunnally’s new babysitter is there, but not Nunnally. Seems weird not to include her if she’s going to play any continued major role in events?
@ Everlasting - with Nunnally in place Lelouch has no reason to continue with the rebellion. We still have another ~20 episodes to go. Slight logistical problem there, so the situation has to change in some way - was the thought. But I could be wrong.
(And the more I type Lelouch the more it starts looking like a fusion of “leech” and “louse” lol)
May 13th, 2008 at 5:58 am
“I can has fly upgradez?”
I loled. Hard.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:25 am
“Why is she always in a garden?”
- poor little rich lolis are always in gardens
“Who builds gardens on a plane anyway?”
- Sunrise, apparently…
May 13th, 2008 at 6:52 am
You caught everything I wanted to say about this episode. Thank you :)
And don´t forget as said about the Impulse. And from what I understood Kallen took the right arm of after knowing that she would get a new one.
Makes you wonder why she still is using only one arm to attack with… give her another clawed arm and whoa, Kallen is scary :)
I hope for a better next episode, cause this one kinda sucked. Fighting was ok, but talking and being saved by Rollo, oh my how damn easy that was… thanks Sunrise for ruining a perfect time to show of Lelouchs bad habit of always telling the truth to his sister…
May 13th, 2008 at 8:37 am
This show is getting a bit too out of hand for its own good. I will still watch it but not with the seriousness I watched in the last season. That season is definitely a lot better than what we have seen here granted though only 6 episodes are out so far. Heres to hoping it gets better.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Doubt Nunnaly will die. It makes for much better drama to have her stuck between her bro/the big bad and Suzaku/the other big bad.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I need to be more cynical next time. After so long watching Sunrise shows, there are so many illogical points that I got brainwashed in to thinking it’s normal.. like the garden on the plane.. and the loli empress… and, and, Kallen’s gattai scene .
May 13th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I agree with Dark on the fact that C.C. always has calls in the oddest moments possible. What is that animal thing anyway? Other than her love for Pizza Hut, I have no clue what that thing is! Maybe it is some kind of promotional stuffed animal…
I hope so, cause that way I can get one from Pizza Hut in the future =]
May 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@ Asha: I’m not saying it will happen, just that it could. An angry vengeful Lelouch would be cool, but do you remember when Nunnally was first kidnapped? More emo than anything imo. Imagine if she was killed. While his obession with doing everything for Nunnally is annoying it is what is happening. Unless Sunrise fixes that then they can’t kill her off. And while it would go smoother if she died there are other ways to handle it. Let’s just pray that it works out, but its Sunrise we’re talking about. They have a reputation and a talent for ruining great things or things that have the possibility to be great. Not to mention ruining good characters, Suzaku was pretty cool until Zero killed Euphie. We all know how he is because of that.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
One thing I kinda was wondering about is how, Charles (The Emperor) and V.V. (Charles first ally.) Made a pact to “Slay the Gods” which is the deal with V.V. (Just like C.C and Lelouch and how they have a certain ‘Deal’.)
Anyway, By reading all that I have so far. Its becoming a bit overlooked. I think something is going on under our noses. But, That part could be Relevant or Irrelevant, I myself have not thought about it much yet.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
i am going to guess that the show is going to end with some sort of compromise and suzuke is not going to die (damit)……on other notes don’t bother with the iphone is a piece of garbage….doesn’t even have 3g for crying out loud!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
i know this is a stupid question, but just how to you get your weekly raws, and yet escape XEDO at the same time T_T.
and yeah, i was kinda disappointed with this episode too. somehow i wished they could have pulled it of without using rolo..it just makes him too damn convenient..
May 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Actually Steve Jobs is making an announcement during WWDC 2008 at San Francisco on the 9th of June, and the event itself is being billed by Apple as “a landmark event in more ways than one”.
This means that on top of other product announcements, a 3G iPhone is definitely coming soon. Not to mention that the beta firmware that comes with latest iPhone application devkit has a 3G option.
By the time SingTel actually manages to get iPhone to Singapore, it’s likely to be the 3G one, since almost all phones being sold by service providers here are 3G.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Well, I have to say that the Seitai part was a trifle overdone…but Sunrise has gone for 5 episodes without showing new technology on our original characters. Lancelot Conquista and Guren Kashoushiki sounds fun IMO…and it is about time Kallen gets something that is on par with the Rounds. The 1st season really didn’t show how good she can be against Suzaku if they have mecha of the same level. A second claw would be nice though, with some other cool technology (like a
I thought this episode was quite ok. Some poor animation on Sunrise’s part but the action was cool, and it gave an excuse to show off everything the OP promised about the mecha. Not to mention Guilford’s Vincent…wished it could have been more visible in the fights…
Sadly it didn’t address the Viletta issue, Toudou’s custom unit didn’t make an appearance (Toudou vs Guilford is something I definitely am looking forward to), and certainly the ‘gods’ thing is confusing. Makes me wonder if Sakuradite is something like Tiberium in C&C, without the inconvenient parts that is.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:41 am
the garden does make sense she is royalty this is shown by giving her special treatment by putting her in the “garden on a plane” (roll the snakes on a plane jokes)also i disagree Guner i predict nunnaly will die a little before the end the way this show has been twisting and Lelouch will go straight after the emporer and her killer in revenge and that will be the end of the show or they will just keep playing on the bent on revenge theme and run another season and so on milking the show for all its worth until it gets canceled either way i think there is a high chance of her dieing but not any time soon if she does get killed off way before the end they should really fire their wrighters oh and the guren sequence totaly makes since you have to remember that chick is a freaking genius and would have been thinking ahead to have the systems ready for deployment as soon as they arived and if the right arm hadent been blown off they probly would have written in a part where she is told to rip it of to make room for the new one
May 14th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Asha: “(minor episode preview spoiler) - is that Lulu getting majorly beaten up there? Does he temporarily lose his Geass? Can’t imagine how else that would have happened…”
I went back to the episode and paused it. It’s not Lelouch getting beat up. I think it’s just some random Eleven. A Brittanian (assuming from his clothes and poncy hair)holds up what looks to be one of the Refrain injecting thingies from season 1. Lot’s of Lelouch emo inc. Emotional confrontations with both Kallen (in an entirely new outfit it seems) and Rolo appear to be expected as well. *sigh* Part of me hates myself for looking at the next episode previews so closely, because all they do is fuel my desire for next week’s episode.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I love R2.
Now I have to admit that I was not a religious viewer or R1. I would wait for like 5 episodes to come out then watch them all at once! XD;;; LOL. IMO Code Geass starts out and ends extremely well. All of the episodes in-between (like R2 episode 6) are only going to have a few “great moments”. So if you find R2 not living up to the hype, then just wait until something AMAZING happens and download like crazy to catch up. Personally, I will watch each episode as it comes out because I visit Code Geass forums a lot, I don’t want to be spoiled too much, and I love the improvement in the animation. (Okay, and I also love Rolo, Suzaku, and Lelouch but that’s another story… XD)
My only complaint about R2 is that Kallen has turned into the sex-object of the show and its annoying. I like her as a character and I think she can kick some major A, but c’mon Sunrise. D:< Her T and A gets more screentime than Lelouch!
May 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
yeah seriously, gimme some kaguya service :>
May 17th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Rawr, I can’t wait until episode 7. And I love the blogs xD i just went over all of the episode blogs to recap before watching episode 7 in a day or so.
Hmm…Kallen is indeed the fanservice icon of R2…Not that i’m complaining or anything. She’s a hawt charrie <3 (buahaha I shall steal her yet!!)
On a side note…We shall see o.o and I feel I’m gona watch macross frontier tonight. I havn’t seen it yet.