Another thing is the relationships between the characters which in my opinion while they were not excellent, they were very well develop. Yet, the execution of some key scenes weren’t the best ones.
Code Geass in this second season looked like a combination between Death Note in the first episodes, and Evangelion in the last ones. While this is not bad, it’s certainly not even as good as the originals. The first episodes were great in my opinion, because they had that Death Note atmosphere of mental challenging for the protagonist, nonetheless the contrast in the scenes that were in the school were shockingly different, this due to a poor execution. While in this first arc of Code Geass was acceptable due to the situations, after that it’s just feel forced.
In the end of Code Geass it resembles a little bit of Evangelion, with all of this philosophic dilemma, nonetheless, this dilemma has been put better in other animes such as Psycho-Pass, and it just seems that the mechas are there just to please the audience that loves mechas. It’ more like a got used to it more than an actual reason to be there.
The execution of a lot of things were getting better the more it advanced, then again, a lot of things are resolved in Deus Ex Machina for most of us that have an anti-bullshit eye, just by luck more than any other thing or plan, or just put in there without any logical explanation.
A lot of potential in some characters is lost due to Lelouch, which in my opinion is not that big of a deal, I don’t get how can people compare him to Light in some things, I mean, in war it’s obvious that Lelouch, but pretty much other things, such as a plan to know things and get what he wants in a subtle way in order to protect his identity or clean his hands, Light is way out of his league. Anyway, Suzaku was very well executed in this second season, and while we could appreciate more C.C. a little bit more of her and explanations wouldn’t have hurt anybody. And yes, I hated the fact that the creators putted a lot more fanservice in this season and yes, that they pretty much made Kallen a blond character with big boobs and good fighting skills.
While it’s better, for me it was not worth it of that much of time. I watched this saga in 1 week, when I watched FMA: B in 3 days in pretty much the same conditions (summer vacations in both of these).
In total I would give 70/100 to this saga and a 74/100 to this season.
