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Season 2 is a continuation of Season 1, meaning episode 1 is actually episode 26. It continued where 25 left us, albeit with the last part of S1 explained during EP2, so you can't view season 2 as a brand new anime.
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More than a year of waiting time, a radical change in time slot and the related potential audience disagrees with you, at least for the most part.
It's not a brand new anime for us and its obviously the continuation of the same story.
But the staff can't exactly pretend that every single person is up to date with the events of season one, that the new time slot isn't a big deal (news flash: it is), that little to no time has passed in between and that the audience will be immediately familiar with the characters and their world.
You can wave all that away for the sake of your analysis and personal opinion, but it has practical effects on the show and how it is being produced, for better or for worse (or both).
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It's the same as Naruto and Shippuuden, Shippuuden being a continuation of the original series after a TS. Only the series title and episode count separates the two.
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I have nothing to say about Naruto per se and could care less about it, but it's not the same, from what little I care enough to know.
For starters, Naruto is based on an ongoing manga (Code Geass is an original property with very rough manga adaptations that aren't even in the same universe), it's always been considerably more popular in the TV mainstream than Code Geass by just looking at their respective ratings, and it hasn't suffered through the kind of external changes previously mentioned.
Just from that, the approach that a continuation of Naruto would need seems to be quite different.
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The root of all the problems I have with S2 lies with the direction the series went after the S1 cliffhanger The cliffhanger could've ended in numerous ways... Sadly, it ended in the most anti-climatic way - A spin kick. Of all the epic ways that confrontation could've ended, Suzaku dodging a bullet with his plot shield and Suzaku not killing Lelouch due to Lelouch's plot shield being up has to be up there with the least epic of all the continuations possible.
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The spin kick isn't something I particularly like, from an aesthetic point of view, but I didn't find what happened afterwards to be anti-climatic, even if the duel itself wasn't that epic and I would have avoided using it as a cliffhanger in the first place. I think it was actually a mistake to end the first show like that, but not a fatal one and by now it doesn't bother me.
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Kallen, instead of running away like a coward and condemning the Black Knights to defeat, should've tried to save Lelouch. If, for example, Suzaku shot Lelouch and Kallen shot Suzaku, Kallen could've saved Lelouch, leaving Suzaku alive. Lelouch could've followed that up by commanding his remaining forces to retreat, saving the Black Knights from the total defeat they suffered in the anime.
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That's nice enough, if that were the story the staff wanted to tell (or could tell) at that point.
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Speaking of Kallen, her cowardly actions shown in EP2 made me start to dislike her. Just because she thought Lelouch had used the Japanese she went stupid, forgetting that the Black Knights were fighting in a do or die battle and they were useless without Zero commanding them. Seeing her go on to change her mind 1 year later like nothing had happened, even going as far as to point a gun at Lelouch, made me roll my eyes.
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Can't really agree. Flawed characters exist in plenty of anime and, naturally, in real life. Those flaws sometimes mean that they'll do stupid things for one reason or another. I understand you expected more from her, and so did I to be honest, but I've gotten over it by now.
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Anyway... Put simply, instead of wasting 5 episodes (and more) going over Lelouch's memory loss, introducing Rollo, seeing Ashford, freeing prisoners and other things the story could (and should) have simply resumed where EP25 ended. All Sunrise had to do was do something like the above and recap some of S1 at the start or just after the cliffhanger continuation.
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Why didn't they think of that, if it's so simple?
Incidentally, I would have liked to see what you are describing, but I can't pretend there aren't other things at work, or that my expectations coincide with what the staff wants to do with the show, for better or for worse.
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The question now is how long everything is going to take to get back to the point the story was at at S1 end; the point where Lelouch can takeover Japan. With Ashford filler still being around for the foreseeable future and Lelouch about to turn emo over fighting his against his sister, I don't think we're going to reach that stage until at least the half-way stage, and even that's probably a bit optimistic.
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I don't really think so. Taking over Japan may happen, or it may not (unlikely as it may be, I haven't ruled it out), sooner or later, but Lelouch's ambitions and objectives are far more personal than that, as are his other conflicts. I don't believe that everything else that may happen to develop that other side is a waste. In other words, character and plot development can be put to good use in the meanwhile.
Other than that, we can all speculate about future events if we want...in another discussion topic.
