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Code Geass ep.10

December 14, 2006 | 37 Comments

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Woot! Guren Nishiki looks so cool in this episode. In fact, it reminds me a little bit of EVA-02. And that twist towards the end was quite surprising. I am not sure if the person in question actually survived the attack. The only thing that I'm worried about is that despite its power, Guren Nishiki will still be outmatched by the ridiculously over-powered Lancelot. I hope that won't be the case because I don't see the point of giving Karen this new Frame if in the end it's still not as good as Lancelot. Anyway, this episode makes me wonder if Zero is going to stay honorable in his intention. There are moments where I believe he will do this but then he always shows this smirk which makes me doubt his sincerity in Black Knight's ideal.

The episode begins with C.C swimming at a pool while Lelouch screens applicants for new Black Knight members. Amongst the many applicants is a man called Diethard Ried, a Britannian who works as at a Press Bureau Staff. When Lelouch mentions that the guy will be great as a spy, C.C makes a sarcastic comment about how great it must be that the candidates who join him are increasing in numbers. Lelouch scoffs at this and tells C.C that it turns out to be easier than he expected. While many Elevens don't like Britannia, the large majority of them do not approve terrorism. In other words, the majority of Elevens are supporters of Order of the Black Knights. Lelouch comments how lately the public have been helping them. Kyoto, for example, is turning in a new Knightmare for them. The information that they get is also on the rise and at an faster time span. Upon hearing this, C.C asks Lelouch if that's why he chose to be "The ally of justice".

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In response Lelouch tells her that everyone loves "Ally of Justice". C.C giggles and tells Lelouch that right now his face is not one of "Ally of Justice". Meanwhile, Diethard can be seen informing Jeremiah that he's been demoted just like him. Upon hearing this, Viletta tells the guy that this is why they want to investigate the boy from Ashford high school student. They believe he is co-operating with Zero. Right now, however, both Jeremiah and Viletta have to go to Narita mountains. Diet is surprised to hear this because he heard a rumour that the place is the headquarter of the Japan Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Black Knights' new recruits are starring in awe at the Japanese remodelled Knightmare called Glasgow. The Black Knights have also received Guren Nishiki (Crimson Lotus Type II) from the Kyoto branch of the Japan Liberation Army. Zero decides to give the key to Guren Nishiki to Karen because she's an ace pilot and his trump card in the battle.

Their conversation comes to a halt when Ougi tells Zero that one of their new Britannian recruit (Diethard) comes with an interesting information about the Britannia army. Upon reading the information, Lelouch tells Ougi and Karen that they're going to go on a hike to Narita mountain this weekend. A few days later, Nanaly wakes up and tells Sayako that she doesn't need to prepare breakfast for Lelouch because he's going away 3 days starting from today. Sayako comments how lately Lelouch goes away quite often and wonders if he's visiting his lover. Nanaly thinks that could be the case. Meanwhile, Zero comes to the hut of the 5th division of Japan Liberation Front and uses his Geass power to convince them to ignore any abnormalities that are about to happen. Once he receives signal from Zero, Ougi orders the rest of Black Knights to move their weapons to the mountain. While waiting for the group, Lelouch realises that C.C is standing outside the hut.

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Meanwhile inside Ashford College, Nina expresses her intention to meet Euphemia to thank her for what she did. Millay thinks it's impossible considering that Euphemia is a Princess while Nina is just a student. Back to Lelouch, he is now demanding to know what C.C is doing at a place like this. C.C claims that as she said before, she's here to protect him. She then changes the topic by asking him why he changed his last name into Lamperouge while keeping his first name Lelouch. In response Lelouch tells C.C that "C.C" is not a human's name. C.C suddenly stares at Lelouch and asks the guy if he knows why snow is white. She then answers her own questions by saying that it's because snow has forgotten its own colour. As Cornelia launches a surprise attack on the Japan Liberation Front, the Black Knights become nervous to know that they're up against Cornelia and her army. It doesn't help that Zero claims that they need miracle to win this war.

Tamaki is not happy about this and tries to point his gun at Zero. Before he manages to do this, Zero already points his gun at the guy. He then flips the gun and tells the Black Knights that their ability to retreat had been severed. However, if they think they can win without the war without him, then he welcomes anyone to shoot him. He then informs them that there are only 2 choices once they join the Black Knights: they either live with him or die with him. As the battle begin, Guildeford tries to protect Cornelia but she refuses to be underestimated and proceeds to attack the Japan Liberation Front Frames head on. At the same time, Zero finds out that no one is brave enough to kill him. Somewhere in the mountain, Jeremiah is pissed off because he's left behind as usual. Back to the battle front, Cornelia manages to easily defeat the Japan Liberation Front. Their only hope for their leader, Toudou, to reach there in time seems impossible now.

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Meanwhile, a group of scientist under the mountain mentions about how they're going to be in trouble if their reaearch data is found by the army. At the same time, Zero and the Black Knights manage to complete their preparation. Because of this, Zero orders his troops to launch a surprise attack on the Britannian army from the summit of the mountain. Zero then asks Karen to use a drill a device down into the mountain so that the device's radiation wave motions penetrate the mountain's water vein. The result is an explosion which causes landslides and destroys the Dalton Unit of the Britannian army. After the incident, an informant tells Cornelia that their attacker is not the Japan Liberation Front but the Order of the Black Knights. Jeremiah becomes excited upon hearing this and starts moving his Frame in desperation to redeem his reputation. Jeremiah immediately face to face with Zero and manages to destroy two of Zero's bodyguards.

Zero decides to bid time by calling Jeremiah "Orange-kun". True enough, before Jeremiah can attack him, Karen appears with her Guren Nishiki. Viletta tries to warn Jeremiah that this is the first time she sees a Knightmare Frame of this type. Before Jeremiah can do anything, Karen sommersaults on top of his Frame and grabs the Frame's head with its claws. Karen then activates the radiation wave again and fries Jeremiah's frame with it. All of a sudden, the Frame's body starts turning into blob while Jeremiah himself gets electrocuted inside the Frame. Viletta tries to persuade him to eject the cockpit but Jeremiah stubbornly refuses to do this because Zero is in front of him. As Jeremiah passed out, his cockpit self ejects on its own while Guren Nishiki destroys what remains of it. Karen then declares that she's not going to lose with Guren Nishiki. The episode then ends with Lelouch telling the Black Knights that their next target is Cornelia.

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Impression:

Some of the scenes from this episode look like an imitation of The End of Evangelion. The part where Guren Nishiki is about to drill the mountain looks very similar to the part where EVA-02 is surrounded by the mass production EVA in that film. Even some of the Frame's battle poses look similar to EVA-02 battle poses. I just hope this is not a sign that the flailing hand in the OP is actually Karen's dying hand as she dies trying to fight some powerful enemy. Overall, I'm quite impressed with the new Frame. It's not exactly original in its design but at least it's quite powerful. I think the only dangerous opponent that I can think of right now is Suzaku's Lancelot. However, I'm hoping that it'll at least be able to match Lancelot in terms of speed and raw power. It'd have been annoying if it turns out Lancelot can defeat it quite easily though. What's the point of giving Zero and the Black Knights a new frame if it can't go head to head with Lancelot?

There are several interesting mysteries presented in this episode. To begin with, C.C's real identity is an interesting point of discussion. When she talked about how snow has forgotten its own color, it feels as if she was suggesting that at one point her real name was not C.C. However, due to something that happened in the past, she forgot about it. I would also like to know what happened to Jeremiah. I realise that her cockpit manages to evade destruction but Jeremiah looked like he was close to being dead prior to the ejection. I think the problem with Jeremiah's story is that at the moment he's completely obsessed with Zero. As a result, there is no reason why his character won't go after Zero whenever it has the chance. However, sooner or later Zero will see this as a threat to his anonymity. Since Zero is a lot more higher in the character importance ladder, the likelihood is that Jeremiah will have to lose to him at some point.

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Another interesting part of the episode is the preview for next week's episode. The first thing that I notice is Euphemia looking like she's mourning for someone. Since I doubt that she'll behave that way for some soldier, I'd have to assume that there's a likelihood that it's Cornelia that she's mourning for. I believe that this series is heading towards an inevitable winning for Zero. However, this will create a new conflict, possibly involving C.C. This is probably why the preview shows her giving her power to Suzaku. If she needs someone to counter Lelouch, Suzaku would have been the person capable of doing this. Plus, the original premise of this series was a conflict between Lelouch and Suzaku and we have yet to see this coming head on. Sure, the two have had light argument about the difference in their ideals but they haven't try to kill each other yet. This would probably happen if Lelouch becomes intoxicated with power.

Preview

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On next week's episode: Is that Suzaku getting the same Geass power?

Posted by Garten
Comments
December 14, 2006 | Scarlet wrote:

Noo! Are you implying that orenji is dead? I was hoping he'll team up with Suzaku to bring Lelouch down. :(

December 14, 2006 | karasu wrote:

ROFL, you're telling my Orange-kun dies! WTF? XD that'll sooooo angry the orange fans. I personally don't mind, though, he seemed pathetic. Though, what about the investigation the Purists were doing on the "mysterious student"? They discussed this back in ep 9, so that was...?

Orange-kun gets a part in the ED and OP, so I hope it does mean he's here to stay =p or else it would be hilarious...

"blamed!"
"deranked!"
"shamed!"
"Killed!"

poooor orange ~_~

December 14, 2006 | Shiro wrote:

I'm a Jeremiah fan - i love his character/place in the series. As its been mentioned he appears in the OP, and for other reasons i don't think he's completely taken away from the series.

If for some reason Jeremiah is dead, it'll give Villetta the reason to look more into the student she remembers from the second episode, (Lelouch meaning Zero), kinda like an act of vengeance.

December 14, 2006 | Xiero wrote:

where do u guys get your Code Geass eps, they come out so fast?

Well anyway, poor orange-kun

December 15, 2006 | Papylon wrote:

What the hell is C.C doing giving Geass power to Suzaku? It's not as if he doesn't have powerful mecha already.

December 15, 2006 | wao wrote:

Oh god, I love your captions as usual. LOL. I sure as hell hope Suzaku doesn't get the Geass power, that'll be so... -___- uncool. (In this show whether something is cool or not isn't just a big deal, but the very point of the show itself)

December 15, 2006 | Negi_Bossa wrote:

One thing that annoys me about this series is how they always jump around from one idea to the next. One minute Zero is fighting a drug dealer, the next minute, they show student council hijinks.

December 15, 2006 | CronuZ wrote:

Though he hides it, his agenda was alwayz to defeat Brittania empire.. the fact hes fighting those drug dealers was to provoke more ppl to join the Black Knights, believe that the order was to fight for Justice

December 15, 2006 | Tania wrote:

mmm, i don't like Lelouch's knightmare -_-, no good, C.C. giving geass power to Suzaku, lol, many of us have compared Lelouch with Light, then i guess Suzaku will end up being like L xP

December 15, 2006 | CronuZ wrote:

So I guess its another Seed mode vs Seed mode then.... but I wonder why C.C. wanna give Suzaku geass power anyway

December 15, 2006 | Garten wrote:

So I guess its another Seed mode vs Seed mode then.... but I wonder why C.C. wanna give Suzaku geass power anyway

Maybe C.C's intention is complete destruction of human's life. What better way of doing this by giving two people who have different view on how the world should operate the most powerful weapon of them all? Let them duke it out first and then she'll take over the remains. It's like giving two opposing countries a nuclear weapon.

December 15, 2006 | StrikeOtoko wrote:

Maybe C.C. gives Suzaku a completely different power. Consider that Lelouch is a Britannian who opposes Britanian rule but has the power of the King, something that would come in handy for a Britannian. If the point is for the two to be the opposites, shouldn't Suzaku, an Eleven who supports Britannian rule, be given a power that would be useful for a revolutionary.

December 15, 2006 | supameng wrote:

i dont think c.c would give suzaku the power that she gave lulu, it would so ruined the story. And c.c said she was there to protect him not to give some other guy the power, and plus lulu and c.c. are ally because c.c. need lulu to accomplish what she wanted to accomplish in the beginning. Giving suzaku the power wouldnt that just ruined c.c. and lulu pack?

December 15, 2006 | Raichie wrote:

Looks like an interesting episode. ^^

Guren's palm attack reminds me of Destiny Gundam's Palma Fiocchina XD

And about the next episode... i think it's quite weird if Suzaku have the Geass power. He's not the type that likes to order people around ^^; and looking into his personality, i guess Geass doesn't suit him.. well, let's just see the next episode.

If Suzaku has Geass.. he would win easily for sure.. -_-'

December 15, 2006 | nrad wrote:

Like strikeotoko said, Suzaku might be given a different power instead. Geass power is not only about mind-controlling ability. Perhaps Suzaku's power could be something physical....
So wats C.C.'s real name? Snow White? Yukishiro? ^_^
While Guren Nishiki indeed looks like Eva-02, it's microwave attack however reminds me of Scryed's Kazuma and his Alter power (Shell Bullet). While Kazuma's Alterized right arm can generate destructive shockwave, Guren Nishiki's silver right arm can create micowave blast. Even the blast is of Taniguchi's typical sound effect.

December 15, 2006 | muhi_kira wrote:

great victory too lelouch and his army ^_^
i like karen somersault fighting skill

if suzaku get a geass power i don't think he will defeat lelouch (because lelouch his best friend)

December 15, 2006 | Sonhex wrote:

I think those scientists worried about their work are the same ones from ep 3. Remember they were heading for the other site in Narita, coincidently the town trashed by Lelouch's landslide. I guess Cornelia doesn't know about the research Clovis was conducting, which raises some intriguing questions. Maybe we'll find out next week...

December 15, 2006 | blissfulcarnation wrote:

Woww.. I just watched the raw version of this week eps and can't wait to see the continuation especially after viewing the interesting next week's eps preview: C.C using her power on/for Suzaku.
To begin with, Lelouch's smirks indeed make the sincerity of his beliefs seem questionable, that is, whether his intention to destroy Britannia Empire is:
1. in revenge for his mother's assassination and to provide a haven for his crippled and blind sister (basically, for his own satisfaction). After all, isn't this the prime reason of his strong desire to crush Britannia? OR
2. for justice. We have seen how the Emperor of Britannia imposes the concept of 'survival of the fittest' on his people through his speech during Clovis' funeral. With his pride, it is natural for Lelouch to desire a utopia in which people are given fair and equal rights, be them Eleven or Britannian.
Although he had mentioned to C.C that both are equally important, his thoughts show that he's prone to the first reason rather than both. Had his mother not been murdered in the Britannia Imperial Royalty's struggle for the successor's seat, I can't say for sure that he wouldn't turn out to be like Cornelia.
While it is true that the Order of Black Knight's intentions are justifiable, their actions are not by law. For instance, Zero's publicized speech that the weak should seek and the powerful should fear the Black Knights which I believe, ignites the anger of Britannia army. They should have realized that it particularly points to Britannia Empire which holds the value of 'survival of the fittest', rather than oppressors in general and thus, his speech can be considered as challenge towards Britannia Empire and of course, will cause commotion. In the future, if the Black Knights are left wandering around, the world would turn into greater commotion (just as what Lelouch said) as the recruits of the Order of Black Knight increase and as they are supported by more and more people. After all, people love ally of justice. Suzaku understands this and that's why I strongly agree that he is not that naive as some people perceive. Suzaku's interpretation of justice is moral and lawful rightness - upholding what is just according to the law and moral standards (this is the reason why he's nicknamed shiro no kishi or white knight). This is shown by his disagreement with Zero's action of exploiting Britannian civilians and taking them as hostages even though he had no intention to kill them. Lelouch, on the other hand, does not care about these morality and law issues as long as he can end Britannia Empire. Though their goals are the same, their ways are different. So, it is hard to say that what Lelouch does is justifiable, but it is not wrong either. (Credit to code geass community journal (interview with the storywriter and producer of Code Geass; anyways, watch out for a little bit spoiler on C.C's identity):
http://community.livejournal.com/code_geass/27061.html#cutid1)

And about what I think about what C.C is gonna do to Suzaku in the next eps...

Before proceeding, read the translation below the second scan: http://community.livejournal.com/code_geass/51505.html#cutid1 I agree that it is unthinkable that C.C would give geass power to Suzaku. I suspect that C.C will use her power to make Suzaku reminisce his dark past. For what purpose? Well, let's just wait patiently for the next eps. Hahaha...

December 15, 2006 | Eleutheria wrote:

"yeah right and im just exercising my leg"

priceless

December 15, 2006 | eden wrote:

i wonder if cornelia will die on the next episode.

December 16, 2006 | abc wrote:

@blissfulcarnation: suzaku is not naive, he is a self-rightegous person who always think that he is always right. What the hell is moral by joining the army (of the empire that he doesn't like), obeying their orders and killing people ? It is just miracle that he didn't kill many people. But remember ep1, without Lulu's act (threatening Clovis), many will be killed after they (and their solders called "terrorists" ^^) are defeated by that Lancelot. Suzaku may seem "moral" but in fact stubborn and not understandable (not logical in thinking) by serving as an obeydient solder for the empire. He may seem "kind and pure" but in fact is an idiot with a bloody hand.

At least Lulu is more realistic and knows himself that he is not a good person ^_^

I hate that Suzaku is being powerups. He is overpowered already with his Lancelot and his luck. In the worst case hope C.C is not that stupid to give him the same "king" power as Lulu's

December 16, 2006 | blissfulcarnation wrote:

Joining the Britannia army doesn't have to do with morality. It's the intention and action that matters. Suzaku, just like Lelouch, doesn't exactly wish for absolute peace (it's too idealistic) since wars are inevitable: it keeps happening from time to time due to rulers' greed for authority, but he at least wants to create a place where many people won't lose their loved ones. It's been 7 years since the war between Britannia and Japan. Though Elevens are discriminated, they at least can become Honorary Britannians through some paperworks. Now suppose that all Japanese were willing to sacrifice their pride and became Honorary Britannians, would there be any bloodshed? No, but of course the world is not that perfect. Discrimination itself is not morally right and can ignite the anger within the discriminated ones, encouraging them to rebel against the Empire. And the result is? Terrorism - civilians get involved and killed just like what happens in episode 8. I do understand that the core of all of these is the Britannian Empire and its 'survival of the fittest' idea which has been widely embraced by its people. This is the reason why Suzaku joined the Britannian army. He wants to change Britannia from the inside while serving it. How does he serve the Empire? through participation in eliminating the terrorists and other rebelling parties while keeping his morality intact (in eps 1, he chose to be shot instead of killing Lelouch and in eps 2, he saved a woman and a kid who got involved in the battle). So, I don't think he's an idiot with bloody hands.
It is true that if he succeeds in changing Britannia systems, fair and equal rights can be established one day, though it is not an easy task considering that he's an Eleven. But I don't think he's that stupid to want to change Britannia by himself. I believe that he realizes that he needs the support from the higher-ups and not all Britannians are cold beings (Euphemia is one example). But again, this method is not effective and requires a lot of time.
Suzaku is a righteous person but he doesn't always think that he's right. I believe that at times he doubts whether his actions are right or wrong... or to be more exact, productive or unproductive.
Well, it's the world of politics - really difficult to decide whether certain action is right or wrong. Complicated and requires a lot of thoughts...

December 16, 2006 | golthin wrote:

Good thing you weren't around when the colonies in america decided to rebel against England or we will still be under british rule.

Suzuka is misguided in his ideals. He has a good heart, but I doubt he will be able to change the british system from the inside.
Well, if what we think happens in episode 11 is real, then he might have a better chance.

December 17, 2006 | Agentfriends wrote:

do u no where to download the raw or even the subs cause i can't find any and this episodes seems to be so interesting!!!! plz

December 17, 2006 | boibofet wrote:

in regards to sazuka..i just cant belive that he can support people who treat his own people in such a shit way..i mean the elevens are treated like shit..yet sazuka think he can do what exaclty? so far he has done jack all except fight against his own people..what will he do when britania ask him to wipe out another city full of elevens???

the guy is an idiot (changing from inside out) takes a crap long time to work...running around in lancelot aint gonna do jack all....

also him being such an idealist would he use the new powers in the first place?

December 17, 2006 | Miwako-san wrote:

Even though the Guren Nishiki is impressive and all, I can't help but wish that neither Karen or Suzaku get killed if they end up battling eachother. In addition to that, I wonder if Cornelia will outsmart Lelouch again or will the victory belong to him? Oh well, my questions will probably be answered soon.

December 17, 2006 | nrad wrote:

On top of that, i'd like to see Toudou in action first ^_^....

December 17, 2006 | biki wrote:

Does Jeremiah remind you of Ramsus from Xenogear? Just a quick thought from me..

December 17, 2006 | blissfulcarnation wrote:

@golthin: Hahahaha, I didn't say that I agree with Suzaku though. Personally, I think that Lelouch's way is much more effective and productive. But sometimes I find Lelouch's intention is not 100% sincere. In the beginning of eps 10, we can see his insincerity when he smirks while talking about the ally of justice. He has the pride of his own justice and indeed, he wants to protect those who are oppressed by the strong. It is his ideal and above that, is his true purpose and true reason for fighting: to avenge his mother and to create a haven for his disabled sister. I'm sure that he already knows that many people will support the Order or Black Knights prior to creating and publicizing it and of course, it would be to his advantage because rebellion needs supports. I can't say I'm taking neutral stance cuz lately, I found myself to agree with Lelouch's way (not his sometimes insincere intention). After all, as what you said, if there were no rebellion, the oppressed countries would experience injustice cuz the strong tends to despise the weak.
@boibofet: Suzaku is there to change Britannia. He, himself, confessed to Zero that Britannia is not a worth-serving country. He doesn't support Britannia and I think that he'd better die than killing civilians. This is already proven in eps 1 and eps 2. Besides, he's in the technology department and his task is to help Britannia army when they're in the pinch, not going off killing innocent people. He's not stupid but as golthin says, he's misguided in his ideals. He can't just win against Britannia Empire while upholding his current ideals. Frankly, I think chances are very low that he will succeed.

December 17, 2006 | Aelynsage wrote:

:p you know, I never got the impression that Lelouch actually believed in the Black Knights. He refers to them the same way he refers to Geass--as a tool. This is more fitting with the whole "the ends are more important than the means" attitude he is supposed to represent.

As for Suzaku, blissfulcarnation has said much of what I wanted to. You can't label an entire organization, especially a government, as black and white evil. I seem to remember that as being one of the earlier complaints about this show--that the oppressor Britannians were being painted as evil, one-sided caricatures.

Anyway, remember Gundam Seed? Lacus said, "one must have both power, and will". The simple fact is, the Britannians are the ones who possess power. By being a Britannian, honourary or otherwise, Suzaku gains power--in fact, that's probably the most efficient choice for him, without some crazy luck like Lelouch has with getting Geass and all that. It's only after he has gained said power when he can do what it seems only he is out to do--help others.

Don't get me wrong--I think Lelouch is awsome too. The thing just is, the path of direct conflict always comes with a price. If Lelouch fails, for everybody who's placing their trust in him--and by now, that's a lot of people--that's it, Knights of Justice or not. And without any power, against massive odds--which is how Zero appears to the world--how he appears to Suzaku--he's just leading hundreds of people to a meaningless death.

December 17, 2006 | Aelynsage wrote:

lol. Fine, say something else just as I say I agree with you. That's what I get for typing really slowly.

Lelouch's way of course pays off faster and more. After all--high risk, high return. The idea is, though, that Lelouch can only do what he's doing, right now, because of Geass. And in fact, despite what he said about "planning to do it anyway", without Geass Lelouch would probably not be any more effective than the other terrorists. So for someone like Suzaku, who's doing all he can to make a difference with what he has, Zero's actions just come off as self-righteous, misguided, and ultimately meaningless.

You guys all want Suzaku to become a terrorist. :p Do you actually believe that that's the only way? Sure, terrorism can make an impact, immediately. But how long will that impact last? And how much will your fellow human beings suffer for it? You don't topple a giant by pricking its foot.

December 17, 2006 | Shawn Thor wrote:

I don't think C.C. gives her powers to Suzaku. She states that she's there to protect Lelouch. In the next episode, I expect Lancelot to overpower the Black Knight's Knightmares, and C.C. has to spring into action in order to save Lelouch. She will tap into her abilities and enter Suzaku at the last moment. We don't know what her intention is, but if she has switches over to Suzaku as well, it defeats the whole purpose of what the previous episodes have set up. The most logical train of thought would be that Cornelia somehow is taken care of, which would put power into Euphmia's hands, which translates into a reliance upon Suzaku. We then have our conflict where Lelouch is pitted against Suzaku. As such, it doesn't seem as if Lelouch is letting the power go to his head. He's still sane, always spouting the same line of creating a better world for his sister. In the end, I fully expect Lelouch to be on the verge of winning, but he gives everything up, because his sole reason for fighting has always been creating a haven for his sister. When it feels like he has accomplished this, his task will be finished. Of course, everything can be thrown astray depending on what C.C. has intended.

December 18, 2006 | blissfulcarnation wrote:

OK, this is a MAJOR spoiler of eps 11. Don't read if u don't want to ruin the suspense.

It seems that it's gonna turn out as I expected: C.C using her power to make Suzaku reminisce his dark past. I have suspected that she's doing that to protect Zero as what she has promised to in eps 10 or earlier. Visit this site for the summary:
http://community.livejournal.com/code_geass/55177.html#cutid1
We can make an interesting comparison between the scenes Lelouch and Suzaku are brought to after C.C uses her power on them. Lelouch was bound by blue strings which is a figurative representation of him being in the middle of the contract. In Suzaku's case, he was swept deeper and deeper into a blue complicated network with lots of crisscrossing strings (reminds me of Doraemon's time tunnel, lolzz) which is a good representation of him being swept into his past. Wow, so that means C.C has more than one power. Interesting...

December 18, 2006 | Dog General wrote:

So I went back and watched the first two episodes again because I was showing them to a friend of mine, and it dawned on me that the first episode emphasized a sense of mystery on both Suzuka and Lelouch. When Lelouch recieved the Geass from C.C., he saw like an entire race of people just like her, and 3 people who looked like they were important said something like its about to begin again.

C.C. said "the power of the king will make you lonely indeed." conversely, Suzuka was told that piloting Lancelot would change him for the rest of his life whether he wanted it to or not.

It just dawned on me that they never went more into that, and the way things are going, they probably won't. Its possible with C.C. sense there is a lot about her we don't know, but I wonder about the whole Lancelot comment. What change are they talking about.

On second thought, they have to go into that more or it would be too huge of a plot hole. The whole thing about the legend begins again, and hooking up with the Ragnares seems like it will be awesome, though, completely different than the story is going now.

Wow, completely dredged up the past without talking about the awesomeness of this episode. Well, its mostly been said already.

December 22, 2006 | Umi wrote:

I found this article of a man named Clade Lelouch.
Maybe lelouch's name had something to do with this guy XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lelouch

December 22, 2006 | red lancelot wrote:

i doubt that suzaku will recieve the geass. in the series, both lulu and suzaku have already received the power they were meant to use. for lulu, it's geass, for suzaku, it's the lancelot. giving suzaku lancelot and geass would make him way to overpowered. also, i keep seeing a picture of what appears to be lancelot, but in red. this pic. appeared in newtype usa. anybody know why?

December 15, 2008 | prilouch_19 wrote:

i luv u lelouch


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