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Code Geass R2 continues.....
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I couldn't really come up with a good joke because I'm just sorta constantly sad and angry at the state of the world rn. Also Raghava isn't here (yet, anyway)
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Episode 4
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Lelouch talking his way out of being assassinated gives a glimpse into the kind of scenes we could have been getting if Lelouch's Geass wasn't so story and theme destroying
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The Chinese Federation recognize the United States of Japan? The country in a room?
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Raghava's here!
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Lelouch actually has a reason to spend so much time at school now. Weird
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So Code Geass actually made the distinction between terrorists and an army of a sovereign nation, which it defines as when the powerful recognize the enemy they're fighting as a state or not
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Raghava says: "The show isn't wrong. It's true that the difference between if something is called terrorism or an army is if the other side recognizes the fighters as coming from a state." Mo: "Will it do something with this?" Rag: "no"
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There's some interesting discussion to have on the importance Code Geass puts on resistance movements being recognized as a legitimate state. We tried to narrow it down but there's a few legit perspectives to look at it
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But we are sure that Code Geass posed this idea entirely on accident, so we're moving on
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Mo: "I'm just accepting what's happening, okay?" Rag: "No hold on"
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it is weird how Zero did the "disengage the platforms" strat twice and it worked twice
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assassin kid has an arc about family and junk it's not... really working
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Lelouch pretending to be Rolo's big brother and caring about him to manipulate is one thing that actually makes sense. But I'm not sold on Rolo being this ready to fall for it? It's just kind of asserted that he has this specific soft spot to this degree
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We're thinking R2 being Lelouch's "villain arc" of sorts makes the politics a little less bad than the first season, because the show isn't so eager to portray Lelouch's path to revolution as moral
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I still think the show argues there's ultimate good to be had, which is still a problem. But it's less bad
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E5
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We talked about what was wrong with Lelouch's Geass as a narrative device and we concluded: it's everything. No further explanation necessary
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he simped so hard too
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Oh the reason why it's funny is because this is Lelouch explaining what happened and why he let his comrades get captured. And it is also after he fucked up, abandoned the revolution, and singlemindedly chased after Nunally before getting his ass handed to him by Suzaku
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And now the show is asking everyone to just submit and follow. Even when he fucks up he's still in charge so he doesn't get held accountable
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Rag says: "Often we get revolutionary movements that are portrayed as just as bad as the systems they want to replace. This isn't usually true even if the story says so. "But in Code Geass it's actually literally true, and the narrative acts like it's not...."
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"...or like it's a good thing."
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it's a cult the Black Knights are a cult
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yeah yeah I remember the first season it was not very good
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another school festival
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The swim club cafe, where you wear heels and lingere y'know for swimming
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see I've seen this episode in season 1 why are we doing it a second time except worse
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So Suzaku is going to become the knight of one after helping colonize Italy. And then... and then... what? You think the Japanese will have self-determination with you in charge?
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Nunally is a politician now
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We don't know enough about Nunally to know where she stands on Japanese liberation
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Watching 6 now, but I'm a little too tired for tweets. I'll summarize the next time I do one of these
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It's bad

































