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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, eps 9-12
I am very much behind in my blogging of this series, so my recap will be sparse. I'm trying to catch up in both my blogging and my watching, though, because we will watch the last 5 episodes in Anime Club this weekend (I missed last week because I went home, so I'll have to try and get it watched before Saturday).
I tried to pick a Code Geass LJ icon that shows off how well this series uses color. Everyone is very distinctive and pretty, which I think is important when you're watching an animated series.
Overall, my message is that I have been pleasantly surprised, and really, really love watching this show.
My synopses are poor, and I don't have time for screenshots, so you should visit Memento for that. I will include squee only.
In episode 9, the OP is restructured a little bit. It's still the same song, but the animation is in a different order. I like this version of the pacing much better.
Both Karen and Lelouch are falling asleep in class a lot, due to the activities of the Black Knights getting ramped up. This episode turns out to be a character study on Karen. You might remember that while in school at Ashford Academy, Karen keeps her hair limp and acts weak, while in reality, she flares her hair out and pilots a mecha fighter with the Black Knight. Essentially, she is an undercover terrorist.
In her mansion, Karen exchanges heated words with a maid, who is later revealed to be her mother. Karen finds her mother extremely passive and weak, because she (is Japanese), and stays in Karen's house as a maid, while a British woman has married Karen's father.
Throughout the episode, Karen watches Elevens being weak. At one point, she is outside with Lelouch, she watches him scold some Britannians about to harass an Eleven, and tells him that he is "all talk." This is, of course, amusing to the viewer, as we know that Lelouch is actually Zero. It must be tough for him to act like a hypocrite as a normal student.
In the end, Karen must save her mother in spite of her weakness. She realizes that her mother has become a maid in order to remain close to her daughter, and ends up being grateful, etc.
In episode 10, there's a big mecha fight that continues into episode 11. CC has to hold back Suzaku in the Lancelot, and in order to do so, she touches the shell of the mecha, forcing Suzaku to see images that he's been repressing from his life. There was a lot of really cool imagery here, including him encountering his deceased father. Zero then touches CC's shoulder, and is forced to see images from CC's mind: a nun, a scar, a crying child in a battlefield. CC says that she was doing this to Suzaku in order to immobilize in him on the battlefield (it worked!). I really like watching these insights into the characters' minds.
Suzaku is left in shock, and I decide that I like him when he's crazy.
Episode 12 deals with politics, but the best part of the episode is the end: Lelouch meets Shirley for a date they were supposed to go on. She is standing in the rain with her head bowed, and when she lifts her chin, you can see she is extremely distraught. She tells Lelouch that her father has been killed, and cries into his embrace, while a stunned Lelouch is pretty much in shock with the knowledge that he killed his almost-girlfriend's father. At the very end, she kisses his him, and he returns the kiss.
OH NO THEY DIDN'T!
In Conclusion: Code Geass is pretty sweet.
I tried to pick a Code Geass LJ icon that shows off how well this series uses color. Everyone is very distinctive and pretty, which I think is important when you're watching an animated series.
Overall, my message is that I have been pleasantly surprised, and really, really love watching this show.
My synopses are poor, and I don't have time for screenshots, so you should visit Memento for that. I will include squee only.
In episode 9, the OP is restructured a little bit. It's still the same song, but the animation is in a different order. I like this version of the pacing much better.
Both Karen and Lelouch are falling asleep in class a lot, due to the activities of the Black Knights getting ramped up. This episode turns out to be a character study on Karen. You might remember that while in school at Ashford Academy, Karen keeps her hair limp and acts weak, while in reality, she flares her hair out and pilots a mecha fighter with the Black Knight. Essentially, she is an undercover terrorist.
In her mansion, Karen exchanges heated words with a maid, who is later revealed to be her mother. Karen finds her mother extremely passive and weak, because she (is Japanese), and stays in Karen's house as a maid, while a British woman has married Karen's father.
Throughout the episode, Karen watches Elevens being weak. At one point, she is outside with Lelouch, she watches him scold some Britannians about to harass an Eleven, and tells him that he is "all talk." This is, of course, amusing to the viewer, as we know that Lelouch is actually Zero. It must be tough for him to act like a hypocrite as a normal student.
In the end, Karen must save her mother in spite of her weakness. She realizes that her mother has become a maid in order to remain close to her daughter, and ends up being grateful, etc.
In episode 10, there's a big mecha fight that continues into episode 11. CC has to hold back Suzaku in the Lancelot, and in order to do so, she touches the shell of the mecha, forcing Suzaku to see images that he's been repressing from his life. There was a lot of really cool imagery here, including him encountering his deceased father. Zero then touches CC's shoulder, and is forced to see images from CC's mind: a nun, a scar, a crying child in a battlefield. CC says that she was doing this to Suzaku in order to immobilize in him on the battlefield (it worked!). I really like watching these insights into the characters' minds.
Suzaku is left in shock, and I decide that I like him when he's crazy.
Episode 12 deals with politics, but the best part of the episode is the end: Lelouch meets Shirley for a date they were supposed to go on. She is standing in the rain with her head bowed, and when she lifts her chin, you can see she is extremely distraught. She tells Lelouch that her father has been killed, and cries into his embrace, while a stunned Lelouch is pretty much in shock with the knowledge that he killed his almost-girlfriend's father. At the very end, she kisses his him, and he returns the kiss.
OH NO THEY DIDN'T!
In Conclusion: Code Geass is pretty sweet.