2007-03-08, 18:12 | Link #101 | |
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Geass is powerful, but there are clear weaknesses. It's like The Green Lantern and the colour yellow. The best way to prevent people from taking up preventative measures against his Geass, like wearing tinted glasses all the time, is if people don't know he has superpowers. The reason Zero got an independent funded army is because he can now do things without Geassing someone, like whenever he needed the truck-trailer's tires changed. Sure, he may be able to Geass people more often, but it's not worth the risk right now. Light in Death Note used his powers all the time until the cops figured out what he could or could not do. Lulu certainly want to limit the number of brainwashed people to a minimum. (At least, of named important people. Quite a large population of his school had probably being Geassed by now.)
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2007-03-08, 18:38 | Link #102 | |
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Hehe truck tires. I mentioned i thought he only uses it for small things. Something big would be using it to achieve something he could not achieve otherwise (like rescuing suzaku in ep 4). I was mostly thinking in terms of intelligence and espionage. Now I'm not sure how good their info net is, but how about something like geassing an officer to relay information from within. Or during a battle, going ninja, and similar to ep 2, sneaking into the enemy camp. He would obviously be more invisible than ep 2 since he knows the limits better now. If he were going in to just steal data on the Lancelot, or even just sabotage it for instance, he wouldn't have to leave evidence in the form of dead bodies either. You pointed out though something that i had considered about his geass usage. In the first few eps, it was treated as a godly power and whatnot, but now it's more like a tool. He really doesn't rely on it anymore, except as his trump. It's always better to have solid support. It's just some of the possibilites (geassing an officer to give info) seems really tantalizing. I've been wondering if there were any other students at school, with weird recurring geases on them. Ashford academy might be quite the freak show now. |
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2007-03-08, 22:00 | Link #103 | |
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swimsuit day, orange day, make a pizza 4x bigger than the world record for the school festival, etc, etc. |
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2007-03-09, 11:05 | Link #104 | |
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2007-03-10, 12:21 | Link #105 | |
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the sync rate was known after suzaku rode the knightmare, not before. His experience with knightmare testing is also a factor. The main factor would be because he is an Eleven, and nobody would care him dying. Lloyd stated out that the machine didn't have the ejection implemented, if he said this to a Britannian soldier, he would have to take responsibility if anything happens to a pilot. Turns out suzaku to be a really good pilot. |
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2007-03-12, 10:48 | Link #106 |
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Do you think nuclear weapons will appear within the Geass universe? I have a feeling they will otherwise it would be pointless showing the glass girl (name?) talking about uranium 235 and the various problems of the nuclear fission.
If nuclear weapons fall into Britannia's hands then it will be a big problem IMHO. |
2007-03-12, 11:24 | Link #107 | |
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actually, in some ways Nuclear weapons would be the worst thing to ever happen to Britannia. a world with Nuclear weapons is one in which Britannia can no longer continue it's expansionist policies, for fear of the mutual annihilation scenario. and without the growing cheap labor force, the Britannian economy falls into recession and then they're screwed. Nukes would actually be the easiest way for Lelouch to obtain his goal of "ending war". of course, once the Nukes show up, Wakamoto will no doubt reveal his Geass superweapon, and we'll be heading right into the end of the series. so yeah, look for nukes around 40 something + |
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2007-03-12, 13:51 | Link #108 |
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Who is Wakamoto? The king?
Ah another thing: Lelouch geassed himself using the reflection of his eyes on some blade. But I remember Lelouch saying that his geass works only if he's in direct line of sight with the victim: I find this a bit confusing. Most likely it's something like this: the geass doesn't require Lelouch to be physically present in front of the victim (the reflection of his geass worked and that wasn't the real one) but the victims can't wear anything on their eyes, like glassed and such. Mao's arc confirms this: as soon as he lost his glasses he got geassed by Lelouch. Is this plausible? If this is then Code Geass can end the next episode: Lelouch just goes on television and geasses evreyone telling them that they must obey his orders, starting from the king. |
2007-03-12, 14:03 | Link #109 |
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^Lelouch explains (in 5 I believe) that the Geass exhibits properties of light, so it can be reflected.
the only reason it didn't work on Mao was because he had reflective glasses. standard glasses and maybe even certain types of sunglasses won't counteract the geass. and since the emperor doesn't have a name other than the Emperor, his voice actors name, Norio Wakamoto, is occasionally used instead. |
2007-03-12, 14:18 | Link #111 |
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Ok from what you guys say no geass broadcast anyway this doesn't eliminate the possibility of mirrors, which functions. What about putting a huge mirror in a square full of people and Lelouch activates his geass in direction of the mirror which, of course, mirrors the geass to all of the guys?
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2007-03-12, 16:05 | Link #113 | |
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It's Louis La Britannia or Luiz / Lewis.
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2007-03-12, 16:18 | Link #114 | ||
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usually you'd use it to refer to how quickly the frame responds to a given command by the pilot, but for someone like Lloyd who simply sees Suzaku as a part of his Lancelot, the high sync rate may be in reference to Suzaku's high level of physical coordination (the reason he can avoid gun fire and beat the crap out of everyone), which allows Suzaku and thus the Lancelot on a whole to react comparitively quickly to attacks. Quote:
well, either way I guess. not like it's a bad name. |
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2007-03-12, 16:53 | Link #115 | |
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On the other side, although it's been emphasized that there would be plot divergences and differences as well as certain similarities between novel and anime, I doubt the liberty the staff will take on those matters would encompass the topic of (major) character names. I can envision them changing certain persons' deeds, opinions and personalities, why not (or even his/her existence, as Cornelia doesn't even seem to exist in the CG-LotR manga) - but what defines a character the most? His/her name? I think not. At least, it seems unlikely to me. The change would be too glaring, too peculiar. I mean, it'd be as if Tomino had renamed Char Aznable, something like, say, "Commander Gaylord" for the CCA novel... See what I mean?
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2007-03-12, 17:12 | Link #116 |
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^what about Mafty Navilles Erin? it's not a name for Char, and its not "Commander Gaylord", but it's basically the same idea.
I mean if you want a second name for a character, and it doesn't exist, people often just make it up. Wakamoto is still the Emperor in the novels, but if that's all the production team had for whoever did the novel, they could have simply said "alright, I want a human name for this guy, and they don't have one for me, so I'll just create it." |
2007-03-13, 00:19 | Link #117 | |
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2007-03-13, 09:28 | Link #120 |
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OFF-TOPICNESS, guys. This is a Q&A.
So, I've got a question of my own. What major anime magazines has respectable amount of Code Geass informations, and the ratios of each as in which magazine has the most in terms of interview, random world stuff compared to other magazines?
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