Can I just say that Lelouch looks so damn hot as the emperor? He looks fabulous being so smugly in command. I just have to squee. Yay.

Lloyd is now working under Lelouch, too! I like that very much; nothing beats having those two in one place. Lloyd is still funny as hell, and nothing seems to have changed his cheerful attitude. Jeremiah is still loyal to the emperor as well, which is rad; Lelouch needs all the allies he can have, despite his absolute power. And, I’ve grown to really like Jeremiah.

Suzaku sure is a smooth talker; he actually shattered Gino’s conviction! Just for the record, I see potential in Gino, and I hope he’ll switch sides soon. Like, yeah.

I love how C.C. is the only one with Lelouch when he goes to participate in this, uh, democracy. (Duuude, voting like that is a practice of oligarchy; not democracy. In the practice of democracy, people draw lots, in the assumption that everyone is fit to rule or whatever. Let’s get that fact straight, shall we?)

Lelouch is aiming for a world dictatorship! Brazen move, but I like it! I can’t believe Xingke says Lelouch has become the enemy of the world; I’m sure a lot of people still support him! Like, me, hahaha! He’s done good things, too, have they forgotten that already?

Screw you, Nunnally; why couldn’t you have just died and not be a nuisance to your brother? What’s Schneizel talking about; Nunnally as the emperor? Is he stupid? That’s the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard! It’s disgusting, really; Nunnally is now twenty times as annoying as Euphemia had been. I wish Rolo were back; at least he’d be perfectly supportive and loyal to his brother.

Rolo pwns Nunnally. ‘Nuff said.

Will it be wrong if I say that I’m all for TianziXingke now? Like, for real. I know that Tianzi is only thirteen (hell I thought she was only seven!) and Xingke is twenty-four, and that the relationship between them is somewhat… strange, but I do love them together. As Sumeragi says it, “It’s so romantic!”

Lloyd hiding behind Milly in the church was hilarious.

‘Nice to see Lelouch having a face-off with someone almost his equal. I don’t like him losing, but it was a fabulous play between him and Xingke.

Is it me or is C.C. jealous of Lelouch’s concern for Kallen’s safety?

How come Lelouch is in two different places at the same time? What’s happening? How could they have duplicated him in his full glory?! :P

Oh my God, but the utter genius of this turn literally makes me cry. I've never seen anything like it before! I doubt the word marvelous even begins to cover it, but it's really marvelously, beautifully done!

I thought it was really sweet of Rolo to have used Geass to help out Lelouch in such a crucial time like that. He's beginning to grow on me; what a sweet guy. Yeah, I guess I like him now. (He should just make sure he doesn't turn against Lelouch.)

Rakshata is so easygoing and yet so devious all the time; I like how she has long planned how things would be against the Lancelot. Having her always pwning Lloyd is too awesome to resist; actually, I like her more than I like Lloyd now. Yay for this machine genius. Woot. Lloyd is just fail against her, and it's so funny.

Kallen is pure win, too! Her loyalty to Zero is remarkable, but it's not too much to the point of being annoying to me. Overall I think she has developed into a likeable character who can kick ass, and of course, pilot the Guren efficiently.

I dislike that Anya person. I see neither personality nor depth in her.

Lelouch didn't have too many frames in this turn, but I guess it's just well, since it focused more on the fight. What I don't like is how Nunnally's character is turning out; does it mean she'll be against her own brother in this? It sucks that she doesn't know how much he's been doing for her sake; I guess she's never really realized how unsatisfied Lelouch is with how their lives have turned out. I hate it that she chose to be with Suzaku, but I hope she changes her mind soon. Seriously, I'm even crept out that I ever considered the SuzakuNunnally pairing before, as Suzaku is a hypocritical bastard who should never be with anyone whom Lelouch holds so dear.

Lelouch can be pretty annoying, too, sometimes. It's great how he's shown to still have feelings and not some crazed psycho who kills people for the heck of it; the proof of which can be seen in how much he values his sister, as well as his friends. It just frustrates me that he crumbles too easily; he's very intelligent and yet he can't keep his emotions bottled up so he can think straight. I know it can be argued that it's his sister that's of main concern here, but I think there could have been less dramatic (and more Lelouch-ish) manner through which they pulled off his sentiments like these.

Good grief, I hate this episode. It mainly featured Suzaku, who isn’t even remotely interesting to begin with, and Euphemia, who just had to get all pooey and proclaimed her painfully evident love for him while he was in the battlefield and almost dying. Seriously, I want to throw up.

“I order you to love me!”

Aw, isn’t that just sickeningly sweet? Someone kill Euphemia and Suzaku already. The anime is mecha; not frikkin’ romance. Tell them to get a room or something. And please, tell Euphemia not to confess in the middle of a battle! What, she wants to get Suzaku killed? Not that I won’t like him dead, but it’s just wrong to proclaim one's, err, love like that and at such inappropriate moment!

I’m not even happy that she acknowledged her being deadweight to her siblings, since she doesn’t even try to do something about this. Honey, you’re a princess, and you’re supposed to have some spine. If you don’t get to work and fight, that same people whose smile you love to see will end up dying. This is war; not some stupid fairytale, you idiot.

And what is it with this Nina Einstein person? What is that girl on? I get that she’s dying over Euphie-sama and that her talk with the pretty spineless princess is supposed to develop Euphemia (or at least I think so), but so what? Is that really necessary? Does it have any pertinence to the plot? If anyone’s gonna argue that it’s for changing the system from inside and it’s all thanks to Suzaku that it's happening, well that’s just lame. It’s not as if Euphemia had some guts to begin with, and Suzaku underwent major trials before finally winning her over through his chivalry or something - because if that were the case then perhaps I'd give it more credit. But no, Euphemia is basically no more than a lovesick, idealistic idiot, and so this... thing, whatever it's called, is of absolutely no merit.

The only saving grace of this episode is that it showed Lelouch and C.C. in a Knightmare together. It made me smile more than I’m sincerely willing to admit, especially because Kallen wasn’t there (mwahahahaha!).

 

Lelouch and C.C. inside the Knightmare.

And I loved the faintest jealousy from Milly because Lloyd sent a sort of present to that creepy Nina girl.

The saddest part about this whole thing is that Lelouch saved Suzaku from his death. Seriously, Lelouch shouldn't have done that. It's wrong to interfere with people's death. Death is like, a serious business.

 

C.C. controlling the Knightmare.

Chawata’s moment of self-gratification was pure win as well. Haha, Lloyd sure as hell didn’t see that one coming. I love this sort of mind games between the two of them; it's pretty interesting when you challenge another person to... a battle of intelligence. Awesome.

Can I just say that I don’t like Suzaku too much either? His loyalty to the Britannian Empire somewhat annoys me. And besides, he’s an obstruction to Lelouch. I’m all for Lelouch Lamperouge; someone kill Suzaku already. (If you ask me, Kallen should have gone for the kill during the party.)

Rakshata Chawla is very interesting. Another evil genius in the series. Fabulous.

Rakshata Chawla, in charge of the Black Knight’s research and development.

Kallen looks very pleased to be in control of Unit Zero, Zero’s Honor Guard.

I actually like her when she supports Lelouch like this.

Suzaku Kururugi.

No position for C.C., but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s indispensable to Lelouch.

Suzaku being heralded as Euphemia’s knight.

The Brits don’t look too happy, and neither am I.

But of course Lloys puts his hands together for Suzaku.

LloydMilly moment. ♥

Milly doesn’t look very pleased about this, though.

Rakshata Chawla is a friggin’ genius. Apparently she used a sort of, err, Gefjun Disturber that would impede on the Sakuradite that the Lancelot uses as a source of its power. Great! So apparently someone can crack Lloyd’s unperturbed smile!

Kallen jumps out of her own Knightmare to save Zero.

Euphemia being heroic. Or simply put, an idiot.

The end of the episode left me hanging. Something called Float System ship arrived in the scene and even Rakshata had to say they were done for. Who is in there? A new character? Euphemia mutters something about her brother’s Avalon. So… what is an Avalon? And who is that person who looks like Clovis? Couldn’t they have drawn him differently?

I checked out some non-spoiling Code Geass forums and I’m not the only one who’s starting to dislike Suzaku immensely. ‘Told you he’s annoying.

After watching this episode, I’ve come to a decision that I adore Lloyd Asplund (apparently, he's an Earl. How very surprising!). The guy (?) is absolutely interesting; he reminds me so much of Narumi from Gakuen Alice and Nathan Mahler from Blood+. And, his engagement to Milly Ashford amuses the hell out of me. What is it with that, really? I’m excited to find out more about it. Oohlala.

Lelouch looks innocent here. I can almost doubt here’s Zero.

Picking up from where the last episode ended, it turns out that Mao is still alive. He annoys me, really, although I have to admit he scared Lelouch by kidnapping Nunnally there. Oh, and the plan where he used the scales and the game of chess to settle things with Lelouch was genius.

Nunnally has been kidnapped, and Lelouch is furious.

Mao against Lelouch in chess.

Lelouch means business.

It must be hard for Lelouch to admit defeat.

But then again he doesn’t really lose, since he put himself under the Geass and commanded Suzaku to cut the wire for the explosives and rescue Nunnally. Awesome. Lelouch doesn’t cease to amaze me.

I just found out that Suzaku apparently killed his father at age ten. Hm. Now that’s something you don’t see everyday. Mao said Suzaku always put himself in peril so he would be able to atone for his sins and save his soul. Somehow, I believe in that. The conscience of a person can definitely prompt him to do a lot of crazy stuff… like putting his own life on the line.

C.C. kills Mao in the end. Well it’s about time; he’s taking up too many frames already. :P

Can I just say that I’m all for SuzakuNunnally? Like, yeah. Even from the very beginning, I saw potential in this one, and me thinks it’s developing nicely as the series progresses. SuzakuNunnally pwns SuzakuEuphemia.