I think I’m going to rant this time. We’ll take a temporary hiatus from the bad jokes and plot summaries, mainly because I just finished reading Transmetropolitan and I’m in the mood to spit on your mothers and kick your puppies. I guess I can start by saying that I hate AnimeNano’s language filter, because I’m going to have to censor myself for at least the next couple of sentences.
And I hated this episode.
“But Roast-Beefy! What about the cool mech fights and the cunning stratagies?! Isn’t that what makes this show great?”
Yeah, it is. Or, at least, it was. Back when they were actually doing it right, this kind of thing was incredible. I really need to stop reading other people’s blog posts on Code Geass before making my own because then I feel like I’m just regurgitating other people’s points, but this episode was a bitch to watch for one simple reason (God I hope “bitch” doesn’t set off the filter): There was no build-up at all.
Yeah, so everything goes just as planned, or maybe it doesn’t and the plan falls through at the last second. That’s the part that we’re waiting to see; which way things will go in the end. But what about the beginning? What fun is there in seeing a plan fail or come to fruition if we don’t know what that plan even fucking was until it’s over? This episode played through my mind like this:
Except, he totally can, since there’s apparently more that one of him now. As of episode 10, Lelouch can satisfy mulitple shippers at the same time. Imagine the possibilities.
The point here is that R2 has made me happy in some respects that are consistent with what made me fanboy over season 1, but it’s mainly only served to amuse me. Sure, R2 can try to go back to its basics, but so far it has failed miserably on the majority of occasions. I imagine the next episode will be good simply because it has Orange-kun in it, but I fear it will suffer from many of the same faults.
There was only one genuinely enjoyable thing in this whole episode, and no, it wasn’t the ridiculously excessive use of Cheese-kun nor the Chinese Panda, though that was pretty goddamned hilarious. It was the scene with Tianzi, Forehead-chan, and Lulu, in which we see Tianzi’s method for escaping a political discussion.
Don’t know shit about the country you’re supposed to represent? Well you can’t answer questions if you’re busy drinking juice! Clever little girl.
Best news of the episode in my mind: Anya has a childhood crush on Lulu, or so it seems. +1 to the Lulu loli harem again?
I guess I didn’t rant as much as tell bad jokes again :V
I have failed.
Why do you take Code Geass so seriously.
It’s not like there’s nothing serious in Code Geass, but yeah…it’s not something to be taken completely and utterly seriously on every single level, since there’s also a fair amount of ridiculous things as well.
I think there was a lack of build-up though, for the plans executed in this episode, but I’d expect that the next one could do a better job about it, since that’s more or less been the pattern: some episodes do a poor job of building up plans, others do it okay or actually well.
>Why do you take Code Geass so seriously.
Why not? I can laugh at all the stupid shit it does just like you do, but I’m still a big fan of the show, so I see no reason not to be upset when it fails to both amuse and entertain me.
“Anya has a childhood crush on Lulu, or so it seems. +1 to the Lulu loli harem again?”
…what is his secret???… how does he keeps getting lolis and girls to him…
I can think of a few world leaders who could benefit from the Tianzi’s ‘no comment’ method.