User blog comment:Zero15/Code Geass R3/@comment-71.30.234.107-20130904081117

I think my greatest fear that accompanies the possiblity of a third season is ironically what made the show so powerful and enjoyable. That is... what kept me tied to the chair, and continuously slamming the next DVD into my PS3 as each ended (even when I watched it the second time through some time later). The emotional ride.

Through it all, there was Lelouch'es mission... his driving goal; to build a better world for Nunally and make Charles answer for the death of his mother and Nunally's condition. But what made the show exceptionally powerful was the interplay of such incredible characters (and the potential in some characters that was never given the opportunity to blossom) and the assassination of Lelouch'es/Zero's character. Interplay that, I might add, was so hard to watch without baited breath because if one thing had been said differently... if someone had been present at a certain moment... if a single piece of key information had been known to a character in a scene.

It is a show that plays on tragedy and despair superbly, but the question that this writer asks is... how much deeper does the hole REALLY need to be dug? I think we can all agree that Lelouch was the penultimate villainous hero, and played the part to a 't'... even going so far as to shoulder his actions behind a facade of cold intention, like when he told Suzaku that he intended to make Euphy kill the Japanese, and that he killed Shirley... telling the Black Knights that he did use them as pawns and that they meant nothing. But Lelouch was redeemed by the Zero Reqiuem, if not in the eyes of the masses, then in the eyes of one of diametrically opposed him from the beginning and stood in the way of his ambition.

I ask... what good does it do to pull the blade of Lelouch'es rebellion back out and continue cutting (metaphorically speaking, of course)? Do we have to be teased with more hints of something blossoming that never will? Or worse, characters that we grew to love be killed? Kallen? C2? Suzaku? Geno (sp)? Cornellia? I don't know about you guys, but while I enjoyed all of the bottled-up closure at the end, I will forever lament the lack of a real touching scene between Kallen and Lelouch... or even some semblance of resolve between Cornellia, Schneizel, and Lelouch. Granted, I understand the obvious implications of such a scene, still... Cornellia and Lelouch, at the very least, for their shared love for Marianne. But I digress.

In closing, I simply pose these questions as food for thought, and as my own reticence. Sure, despite all of the pretty closure, there were plenty of questions left unanswered and plenty of questions created. I equate the experience at the close of R2 to the close of season 5 of Supernatural. Was it incomplete? Was it imperfect? Absolutely. But was there a degree of satisfaction in its finality? For this reader, there was. Personally, I would rather wonder what happened, and even go as far as to write a fanfic or two than watch descend into something that simply pleases instead of being the awe-inspiring piece of work that it once was.

~Fallen