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Originally Posted by wingdarkness
Regarding Lulu's death, it was simply left with enuff ambiguity that zealots could run off screaming to the clouds he's still alive while practical heads accept what they see on-screen...Both factions will undoubtedly display the feelings of surprise or satisfaction when Sunrise uses that inconsequential breadcrumb everyone has been pigeoning for to set-up the SOOPA OVA based on DVD sales...For me, I don't care if he's dead or alive (whatever serves to make the overall effect of the show better is the one I'll choose if we're at gunpoint)...It can only serve as enhancing someones own subjective longing though...For me, the question of whether or not he's truly dead serves as a pothole on the street they paved and how they could have better paved it...
I mean if the simple fact of him concretely being alive or dead changes and underscores the way all the plot elements were handled in R2, WTH are we really arguing over??
So he's dead, that was the $hit!  = So he's probably still alive, that was the $hit! |
I honestly don't know what to believe. When I first watched I simply thought he had died, but after going through it a few times and reading peoples thoughts, I can't deny that there is a possibility he survived. But I won't be sure of anything until I see a possible OVA or extension of the ending on the DVD.
But for me it's not as simple as "
So he's dead, that was the $hit! = So he's probably still alive, that was the $hit! "
This isn't speaking in denial, but something that I wondered about even when I thought he was dead. The promise made to C.C. to return and make her smile, I don't understand how Lelouch death would fulfill that promise. While C.C. showed signs of finding happiness, she still told Kallen that she wanted to end the experience called accumulation. One could guess that the changed and improved world could have motivated her to live on, but there's too little supporting this from what we saw. When Lelouch found out her wish, it seemed to me that it wasn't about her suffering from the circumstances of the world. I'm not sure if the nun was troubled by the worlds circumstances or not, but Code bearers were portrayed as being tired of life rather than troubled by the shape the world was in.
When Lelouch told her that he knew her real wish, I thought it was because she never found true love. She had the Geass to be loved, but never knew if someone loved her for her, or for the Geass.
Another thing that supports
this being her wish and not the circumstances of the world
is when she asked Lelouch to say her name lovingly, when they were inside the cave.
So if an improved world really was what she now wanted, then I would have liked to see some sign of this in the anime. And to be happy in this world without Lelouch makes it harder for me to understand why she would be happy.
If she really wanted to die, Lelouch could have taken her Code from her. So it seems like for some reason, she decided that she wanted to live.
So the question is why.
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