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Originally Posted by Klashikari

^ Alright, I will set aside the issue of Urabe and Kallen as it seems it is too controversial about physics and trajectory.

That aside, if Rolo is really relying on his Geass alone, that doesn't explain 2 odd point:

1) When Urabe exploded himself, the vincent was TAKEN WITHIN IT.
If the vincent isn't able to lightfast dash/teleport, it would take damage to FULL force (that's what Ashlay ranted about back in episode 3, when "mind freeze" was pretty much confirmed.


2) Again, the Radar in this episode:

In this instance, there is NOTHING aside 4 KF: lelouch is at the center (red dots), the 2 BK KF that are about to protect him (red dots on the sides), and a Brittanian KF which is "lost target" teleporting around.

• First, Britannian KF are always showed with that specific "blue ship dot" on radars.

• Second, there isn't any other britannian KF aside of Vincent, as the others are fall back due of the territory (and shown they basically stay on the collapsed bridge).

• Third, vincent has been shown having a zigzag trajectory much like what lancelot do as well.

Hence, the teleporting blue dot can only be vincent, which is teleporting for the RADAR, not lelouch.

both points prove the vincent can deliver an insane dash and/or Sunrise just screwed up, mixing that Rolo can mind freeze but other time, he litteraly do ZA WARUDO.
It is inconsistent as Rolo should be able to dodge that Sniper Bullet which he couldn't. It is definitely a scripter mistake, it isn't that bad, but not everything can be explained with his geass at all.


EDIT:

Not only that, but Lelouch was in front of him.
Hence why the whole "genius" plan is pretty much flawed in that regard. If we remove the "odd teleporting" issue, the problem is that it is not possible, "honestly" wise, to protect rolo from that shot. He would need to do that before the shot (hence exposing himself that it is an act), OR: Rolo is really mediocre to the point of Lelouch can do manoeuvres quicker than him (and this is not a compliment).

Well your post here is really good. But i think it was explained well as how Rolo's geass works. He stop times of others.

When he was battling Urabe he used his geass before explosion. If he had used his geass after explosion then he would have gotten involved.

So i dont think his abbilty is mind freez. Its basically stopping time of others. In this instance( episode 4) the fire was shot , now even if he used his geass he wouldnt be able to dodge it. However if He realized at the exact time( or before) as when that guy fired that shot he would have been able to dodge it.

Also one could argue the explosion was not a moving thing and it only occured at that place. So thus the geass worked.

One last thing to remember, Code geass is just an anime, and thus sometimes might not make sense. In future we might learn about rollo's geass.

Also There might be some lag time before the geass is activated