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Originally Posted by monstratboy
With all the spoilers I was expecting Mao to die, but now thats he's gone I've been wishing C.C. might have reigned in and brought him to work by her side. It would have been cliche but interesting to have someone working with Lelouch who gets under his nerves but then turns into a playful child when C.C. is present. I can imagine them them fighting over C.C., Lelouche telling misleading truths making it seem he and C.C. have an adult relatinship while Mao makes childlike rebuttals that she only loves him and then runs off to be consoled like a baby by said person.
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You're right; It's extremely cliche, and it's also something Lelouch would never ever want. Mao has already caught him by surprise twice, with the second time almost taking her beloved sister's life. I don't see any reason for him to take risks for someone who hates him with a passion and would betray him if he sees it fit. Remember that having Mao around also means that there's always the danger of his true identity being exposed.
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And I have to agree this was one of the worst episodes, WTF! was with that sad, SAD attack Lelouch made toward Mao. My God it just killed any image I had of him being physically capable of anything strenuous. Imaga brought to mind is what Momoko would actually be like if she wasn't a super-powered martial artist.
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One of the worst? Perhaps, but only in the Code Geass history so far, and this episode is already pretty decent. Of course, the reasoning of how Mao survived was absolutely silly, but it also shows that for all his genius, Lelouch is still a human-fallible and susceptible to carelessness, something which he probably made up for in the next episode.
It's weird how some people decide that more screentime should be shown to the person mentioned in the title of the episode immediately. To me, the main attraction of this episode was the fact that we finally get to see Lelouch and Suzaku work together, an irony that stemmed from episode 2 till now, and even gets sweetened with the next episode. So what are we suppose to see from Nunally? Her thoughts of desperation? Her despair, or how she reacts in such a situation? Her thoughts on Suzaku when she realised both of them came? Spare me. If anything, it was at least commendable that she showed courage and steel-like nerves worthy of the noble she was in the past. Perhaps it was within the personality we never got to see, and for me, that was enough, rather than having screentime wasted on needless things.
It has, of course, irked me how Mao did not die or at the very least show signs of terrible discomfort at his near kiss with the Grim. Hell, there's probably a mummy underneath his clothes. While theoretically 'shooting' does not equate to 'killing', it was still strange, because usually if you shoot, you should shoot to kill. It's also unfortunate we did not get to see how Mao escaped or dealt with the police. Another discrepancy.
Still, it was pretty good, keeping me on the edge of my seat. Humor wasn't forgotten as well on the part of Lloyd too. And there was the revelation of Genbu's death at Suzaku's hands as well as his reactions in the flashback as he walked with the Lamperouges through the field of corpses. Nothing less than an 8 for me.
