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jackMe: I love how relaxed Lloyd is about caring about what anyone thinks
Me: Should I worry how many characters I like are described as sociopaths?
I love how Lloyd and Rakshata are geek-flirting through the proxy war of military technological breakthroughs :)
The series reliably portrays the Britannian empire as "bad". I hope there's some self-aware projection there. But full marks for accuracy.
Right, now we do "put all the main characters on a mysterious isolated island together and have them interact". This is pretty good for generating character development. I remember the Game of Thrones tv show adjusting a lot of things to bring main characters coincidentally together EVEN MORE than the book which was great for characters (which was one of the strengths) but completely screwed up a lot of plot to do so; ideally you can have both.
We also get our first hints at whatever is going on with CC. I remember being more confused by what happened when I first watched it. So there's... some mystical gates thing. The emperor wants them (and is currently sitting in some extradimensional space himself? unless that's just metaphorical). We don't know how far he's succeeded with... whatever; the royal family don't seem to be running around with Geases. Don't explain it to me, I'll find out soon. IIRC Clovis was secretly toying with one, which is where he found CC. There's... someone running this who CC knows, but we know nothing about.
Schneizel (and Cornelia) are good leaders, maybe even good in personal interactions, but bad in running-an-empire-oppressing-people.
Conversely, Euphie is kind of idealistic, but not *only* idealistic, she's got mixed up in enough serious stuff that she knows being idealistic has consequences, but she still sticks to it.
Where is Lelouch at this point? He still care a lot about people close to him, but has been very ruthless with other people's lives. I still feel like it would be entirely natural for him to turn out entirely good guy here, but I admit the warning signs aren't good.
OK, that laugh at the end was clearly crossing a line into villainous
Me: Should I worry how many characters I like are described as sociopaths?
I love how Lloyd and Rakshata are geek-flirting through the proxy war of military technological breakthroughs :)
The series reliably portrays the Britannian empire as "bad". I hope there's some self-aware projection there. But full marks for accuracy.
Right, now we do "put all the main characters on a mysterious isolated island together and have them interact". This is pretty good for generating character development. I remember the Game of Thrones tv show adjusting a lot of things to bring main characters coincidentally together EVEN MORE than the book which was great for characters (which was one of the strengths) but completely screwed up a lot of plot to do so; ideally you can have both.
We also get our first hints at whatever is going on with CC. I remember being more confused by what happened when I first watched it. So there's... some mystical gates thing. The emperor wants them (and is currently sitting in some extradimensional space himself? unless that's just metaphorical). We don't know how far he's succeeded with... whatever; the royal family don't seem to be running around with Geases. Don't explain it to me, I'll find out soon. IIRC Clovis was secretly toying with one, which is where he found CC. There's... someone running this who CC knows, but we know nothing about.
Schneizel (and Cornelia) are good leaders, maybe even good in personal interactions, but bad in running-an-empire-oppressing-people.
Conversely, Euphie is kind of idealistic, but not *only* idealistic, she's got mixed up in enough serious stuff that she knows being idealistic has consequences, but she still sticks to it.
Where is Lelouch at this point? He still care a lot about people close to him, but has been very ruthless with other people's lives. I still feel like it would be entirely natural for him to turn out entirely good guy here, but I admit the warning signs aren't good.
OK, that laugh at the end was clearly crossing a line into villainous