-Cornelia as a badass royal lady with a lust for hunting down zero. Not that I haven't seen such characters before, but it will certainly be interesting to see how it all turns out when she's up against Lelouch.
*Gem of the episode: C.C owning Lelouch. It was really fun (and funny) to watch Lelouch lose his cool, and C.C certainly surprised me. One would have thought she would be an ice-cold maiden who answers questions robotically, and here we have a pizza-loving, somewhat cheeky and most interesting green-haired babe who seems to be able to handle the calculating Lulu without much trouble at all.
The only piece of evidence pointing to her spunkiness would come in episode 1 already, though, when she just jumps in front of Lelouch to take that headshot.
-Suzaku/Yufi's meeting. Kinda draws a parallel with Kira/Lacus's meeting, but I'd rather not delve too deep into that.
Suzaku certainly did himself a favour by thinking that ending all suffering isn't possible, thus possibly tearing off the tag that screamed 'IDEALIST!' on him. (At least, half of it).
-Mecha action sequences: Pretty cool of Lancelot with its twin swords, and the way how Suzaku intervened. I'm even more pleased that Lancelot takes hits like that, showing that not everything's as invincible as we think they are (E.g. The power of Geass).
-Love triangle: Wasn't that much of an interesting thing for me, but I'd say so if they start giving Shirley a little more screentime of importance.
