@ kiokukaiba: I can see your theories about regaining her memories being right, but it couldn’t have been Charles’ geass that caused her amnesia, she’s immune to geass.

@ Camario: Yea, changing the battle style from its current form to a highly tactical, every detail explained one would require some major time allocation revamping. The amount of screen time they’d have to dedicate to battles would mean either a longer series or less time spent on explaining plot elements, the latter is just stupid and the former might see the series outstaying its welcome.

@ Kaelyn: Moe never gets old! It just doesn’t fit CC D=

@ ItAintEazy: Good point, but I thought CG always counted on the yaoi subtext to generate fan appeal, not whoring out revoltechs Gundam-kit style.

@ Vadigor: Again, CC can’t be geassed, your latter theory makes some sense though, but CC seems to prideful to resort to something like that.

Also, I never considered that Suzaku wouldn’t be able to self detonate Freya on account of Lulu’s geass, nice catch. Maybe Nina has a detonator too? I’d lol hard if she pressed it and it didn’t go off, a la Ashford spectacle in R1.

@ Bleached: Yes, exactly.

Damn you! =p

I agree with you on how this whole war thing is turning out though. The first season had some nice tactical play going, but now it’s all coming down to “I’ve got a hax machine, try hitting me!”

Surrounding a frame with a dozen units only to have the hax frame go AoE ballistic while the others do nothing gets boring fast.

And I’m still wondering what this Freya nuke crap is, can’t figure out whether it’s a remote device or simply a glorified suicide button. (which wouldn’t work with Lulu’s geass)

It could actually be very well explained in two ways, the first being that Charles rewrote or locked her memories for whatever sick reason he has.

The second and more likely I think is that she wanted to lose her memory, so she could obtain her true wish, being loved unconditionally without aid of Geass. I think that it was her intention to see if Lelouch would fall in love with her for who she originally was, without her having special powers of any kind. Should this work, we’ll probably get the Witch and Warlock ending I brought forward in an earlier topic, which would be awesome. =p

More later, sleep now >

Also, those regular knightmare frames aren’t going to inspire Akiba big-boy toys in the same way those haxxx Galahacelots will.

I hope C.C. goes back to her old personality, moe gets old afterawhile…

It may also have more to do with whatever the Emperor was doing to C.C. to, well, kill her. He already showed that he could take immortality away from V.V., and it looked like he had regressed to an earlier state shortly before he died, since V.V. was talking about the past and all (or it could just be a coincidence that they chose to give his death scene such content, but meh…I like to speculate).

And yes, admittedly, I’d rather see the old C.C. back as cuteness alone doesn’t do much for me, so I hope this doesn’t last as long as it possibly could. If by any chance it helps move some other plot point, good, but nothing else.

As for the Order…”controlling both military force and political agenda.”

They have the monopoly of the UFN’s military force, so they can bring political realities to the table or throw them out according to their own actions and intentions.

But up front, the political agenda shouldn’t be under their exclusive control as there’s some sort of representative body in place, which at least implies that a pretty big amount of autonomy remains for each nation. Your mileage may vary, it’s not like the show is trying to focus on how it all works.

And while it would also be something I’d prefer…the problem with making the battle highly tactical (or strategical) is that there wasn’t enough time for it. I thought the battle was pretty rushed and generic, but the other scenes had a pretty good pacing. Inverting that equation…seems risky, at least not without re-writing too many things. But that’s just me.

A) Lulu calls her real name.
B) Lulu dies or is about to die.

But but but Pizza Butt! …and Cheeze-kun! NOOOOOOOO!!111