Yeah so I just watched this episode which was released a few hours ago.
I'll make no secret of the fact that I dislike the whole mecha-turn this season has taken. Lately it's all about who has the most spanking new knightmare with ultra lasers and like.. mega soundwave blast-shielding. Okay maybe not, but anyway..
Lelouch needs to pull a victory soon using his geass and his brainpower like he used to in the old times, or this will forever go down in my book as a let-down season. And don't get me wrong, this season is still great, but it is a let-down considering the awesome first season and the potential it had. There is a reason why people were so eager to watch R2, and it wasn't only due to the sadistic cliffhanger at the end of R1. It was because they expected more of the same great entertainment and mind games, but what we got was more in line with a generic mecha anime.
Okay, enough season 2 bashing. Moving on!
The Chinese princess is seriously too small, she can't even be considered a loli. See, loli is a term that implies some sort of sex appeal being present, but in the case of our princess here, she pretty much reminds me of a beaten and starving baby bird. She is too damn skinny and whiny! No loliness detected.
And so it seems the Black Knights is being taken over by the girls. That was sort of a funny moment, but we will have none of that softy carebearism when we go to war later please!
The final point to cover is the seemingly most hated character of the show; None other than Suzaku. I must admit that though I despise him now, I sympathised with his ideals, at least somewhat, in the beginning of R1. He still had that annoying knightly attitude, but at least he was trying to do the right thing...
Now he is of course the world's biggest asshat as evidenced by the fact that he sold out Kallen, my beloved Kallen. I feel an urge to kill something so strongly right now that I'm afraid of leaving the house out of fear that I might inadvertently strangle the first person I meet.
All in all a quite entertaining episode, but with too much mecha power-up and too little of Suzaku getting tortured to death.
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I agree, I am very let down with S2, though it has gotten better since episode 15.
Uhm I'm more annoyed that they have been depending on half-assed plot twists since episode 1 of R2.
Rather than repeating everything you said I'll just agree. I hope they pull it together soon, Ep 15/16/17 were good..they should keep that pace up ^_^
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