Season 2 Turn 03
Going to try and keep this a bit shorter.
United States of Japan starts with ONE ROOM.
Rolo goes to active his geass, only to find out Lelouch is back at school. Oh-ho-ho-ho. Lelouch you clever f***. Although, shouldn't Lelouch be more concerned (or rather falsely concerned) about the fact that Rolo was in terrorist attack? That's pretty lame.
CAT-FIGHT! Not really. Lelouch is now cooking. Oh god is this going to be a filler episode? I've got that feeling. Oh look, force attempts at humor. This is super, really.
Ok, so now we care about Rolo and Lelouch being in a terrorist attack. And now Lelouch is pointing out the fact that everyone's mind has been wiped. Thank you for finally pointing out this crap.
Oh hey, secret underground base. Villetta and Rolo are working together! Apparently they're trying to lure out C2?
Exposition! Flashbacks! Fighting!
I see Suzaku is still using the Lancelot. How come everyone has a giant fighting robot now? Are we officially done with any sort of ground troops?
Rolo is trying to catch Lelouch. Lelouch is too damn clever for your stupid tricks. Instead, Rolo freaks out about some locket.
Ah, so that's how Rolo's power works. He doesn't teleport, he freezes people. Oh, and apparently they can't share info about geass to others so they have... kill their own men? Really? That's your solution? It seems like that's incredibly short-sighted? Won't they notice or care?
I'm really not liking this.
Kallen is naked. What's new?
Ah, they're going to kill all the Black Knights to get Zero to come out for a duel. Nice plan.
"She seems to enjoy liquor." Ha.
So he wears a contact to block his geass. Nice cop-out but whatever. And the student council is going to spy on them. And apparently... that was Lelouch's plan? I gotta see how this works out.
They spy on him outside of the school as well. Lelouch is still saying this is part of his plan. Time to geass some fools.
Ah yes, a flashback to that rather poorly handled Shirley storyline. I'll have to talk about that sometime later.
Time for the plan to be enacted.
"All tasks at hand have been cleared." I love that part. So he geassed that guy to set off a fire-alarm right after a bomb threat.
Aha! Gotcha b****! Lelouch has got Rolo. Oh no! Rolo geassed him right back and took his gun.
Nice set up for the next episode. Looks like the Chinese have had enough of the Black Knight's s*** and Rolo has Lelouch at his mercy. Should be interesting how he convinces Rolo not to kill him.
As for the episode itself... meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. The fact that Shirley is still even a part of this show is frustrating, and the fact that she's madly in love with Lelouch AGAIN is kinda annoying especially since we've already had her memory erased twice. I do like Lelouch's plan, it's actually set up very well, and it made sense to him to geass Rolo onto his side rather than eliminating him. Of course, now it's going to take some sweet-talking on his side. The episode seems all set-up really. I'm assuming the next one will be the payoff.
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