Originally Posted by Sol Falling
hm I tried to post this yesterday but I hit f5 by accident and then just had to laugh. Let's try again.
These last couple episodes have been exciting and all, but if I take the time to back off and think a little it seems like so little of what initially drew me in and made me excited about this show ever materialized. When I think of the word peace, of what kind of mind and drive and ideal could create an organization like Celestial Being, 200 years of watching and waiting for the chance to say to the world "Fuck you, I'm the boss now", to say "I am against all that you stand for, you will change", to say "I am humanity's judge, and you can do nothing but be judged"...honestly, I'm fascinated. I want to understand that arrogance, that absolution, that isolation...how did it come about? Genius? Suffering? Loss?
But you know, there's so little of that. There's no depth. Aeolia Schoenberg, Alejandro Corner, Wang Lyumin--the idealogues, the masterminds, the players--they seem so shallow, so insubstantial, their motivations so limited. How is it that this season's endboss is nothing more than a megalomaniac? Why does Wang Lyumin's arrogance feel so fragile, like it could be shattered if she stepped out of her closed little world for a single moment? How can Aeolia Schoenberg, the creator of the Celestial Being which has shaken the world, die with the last words of a crippled, senile fool.
I finally saw a little of it, in episode 23. Lockon, who had always been the generic elder brother, upstanding, generous, kind...finally showed his selfishness, diving into a suicidal fight, leaving his friends behind, dying for his revenge...his soul left his body pulling a trigger against the earth. In the end he was alone, because he suffered and could not forget. This was what he joined Celestial Being to do. His death didn't move me, but it was finally enough to bring a little coherency to this Celestial Being, and it was almost enough to make me like him.
But you know, that's one character, one character dying, three episodes from the end, that even came close to drawing me into this show. Where is the rest? Where is the character which can pull me out of my world and into theirs? Beyond this world of giant robots fighting, I want to understand: what are they fighting for?
There's really only one scene that's done it for me, that I can say was really original and fresh and immersing, and that was Setsuna's dream. Standing upon the landscape that defined him, the orange of dust, blood, and the setting sun still there, but quiet, at peace, so that he can turn and be told that it is done, that it is finished, that he can stop clutching at the past that weighed him down...I really liked the music. Anyway, episode 25 is called Setsuna. I hope that actually means something. I hope to be drawn into his world again, far away from the contrition of deaths of named characters and 7 gn drives and the ravings of a megalomaniac.
And to dom33, honestly, despite it's flaws, Code Geass is much better at this point.
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