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REVIEW: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Trilogy Blu-ray

I mean, just because something is ambiguous doesn’t mean you can’t come to your own conclusion about that ambiguity.

I mean, just because something is ambiguous doesn’t mean you can’t come to your own conclusion about that ambiguity. If these two thought the fandom was just gonna be like “Yup, let’s all let this hang unresolved and never come to a consensus about it”, then they’re even more short-sighted than I thought they were. You can’t have it both ways: to want audiences to see the ambiguity but NOT come to a consensus, and then claim on the other hand that you wanted people to come to their own conclusion all along, just not THAT one.

Zenithe wrote:

Re;surrection has already been dubbed for about 4 months now. All major voice actors have reprised their roles and only a secondary character or two has been replaced.

Yep sorry you are right, and I did even see the first press release on the cast. It's just that I had heard before that a lot of the cast had disappeared or retired and since I had not seen the full cast and had low hopes on VAs like Mary Elizabeth McGlynn returning. Though you would need to find a replacement for Amy Kincaid if you had these films dubbed.

In a certain sense, I feel that the compilation film trilogy of Geass is superior to the TV series, despite its sore loss of an English dub. I have heard several viewers bemoan the loss of focus on the school sequences, but I personally feel that these were largely unnecessary and out of step with the rest of the plot. One person I watched the show with found the comic relief and slice-of-life segments at Ashford to be his least favorite parts of Geass. I mostly have to agree; they detract from the big ideas and political commentary of the main narrative. Sometimes the school days portions even felt ridiculously cliched and childish. Geass is ham and cheese par excellence when it comes to Zero and the Black Knights vs. Britannia or Britannia vs. EU vs. Chinese Federation, but it's a very unwelcome kind of cheese when it involves Ashford Academy. Perhaps all the cat festival garbage and so on is meant to highlight the decadence of Britannian culture, but goes on far too long in the TV series, and reaches an absolute nadir in the second season.