Madonis
Since: Jan, 2001
09/07/2013 00:00:00
I would say this is relatively fair.
Fauxlosophe
Since: Aug, 2010
09/29/2013 00:00:00
Looking back, I'd like to have said more and expanded some points but the 400 word limit is harsh.
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Souther
Since: Sep, 2012
01/15/2014 00:00:00
Fair enough. I would agree that the pacing was a big problem.
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Code Geass
My over all feelings on the show is that this; The first season was a bit like watching from the POV of a Zeon villain fighting for the right side v. a Gundam pilot on the wrong, the second faltered but gives decent closure.
The strengths here show very early on, giving us a taste of the Geass verse that helped pull viewers in. The side characters [Particularly Oghi's Group, The Royals and Suzaku's pit crew] filled their roles pretty well and helped shape the main ones, while Zero/Lulu's theatric flair helped draw me in and keep things interesting.
Suzaku while flawed served as an interesting reflection of the traditional Mecha Hero and it was interesting seeing him serve as a pawn for a larger Evil Empire as opposed to every decent person defaulting to the "Good Side". This helped lend some ambiguity to the situation and make the situation a bit better than Good v. Evil.
Similarly, it took the Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters and ran with it to the hilt, showing it in a contemporary environment which is something you won't see often these days.
This Moral Ambiguity and the Mysterious nature of C.C. raises a lot of interesting questions that make the first season a fun watch.
On the other hand, some dialogues are wallbangingly awful [I honestly muted the Euphie/Nina ones] and Suzaku's Motivation is poorly set out to the point of me screaming during the Island episode with Kallen; He really didn't argue it well with her.
R2 SPOILERS From here on out:
The mistakes here are remedied in the final couple of episodes as Nina&Suzaku step up and Schneizel is an interesting villain, if a poor chess player. Lulu also gets a send off which perfectly suits his character and left me cheering around the end at how it was handled, even the ambiguity was nice.
On the other hand, this came at the cost of pacing; some suspicions were shown on the part of Oghi&co but none to merit their defection. Other rash and unthoughtout actions like this derail a few characters and make others look silly. The planning and gradual rise of a small organization into legitimate freedom fighters as in Season 1 is laid aside and instead they take over China while the Brits effortlessly conquer Europe. The reveal for C.C. is dealt with poorly [the Amnesia plot was pandering & Ragnarok was worse].
R2 has strengths but it forgets what made R1 interesting.