That reminds me, let's do a review of that episode before Friday.
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Episode 18: I Order you, Suzaku Kururugi
Okay, so it opens up to a submarine with some Black Knight trash harping on about their ill-gotten gains from Rakshata, while Rakshata gets high off of her dutch. Bravo, Black Knights. Have fun striking a blow for "justice" or whatever. Ledouche then holds a meeting on the submarine and passes out chore duties for the Black Knights. Tohdoh gets to be the military guy, and Riethard gets to be the intelligence guy, much to the Black Knight's whining. It's to be expected, he's Brittannian! He's "one of them"! This moment does nothing but give Ledouche fodder as someone who "sees beyond their ignorance". Ohgi got Deputy Commander, Rakshata got to be their scientist, Kallen got to be the leader of Ledouche's special club of hired guns, Tamaki got a throwaway job, and C.C. got to be C.C. She then twirled her finger in her hair like a slut and I almost quit watching.
Riethard mentions that there's some old business to take care of, and the scene transitions to that "old business". What is this old business? What do do with Spinzaku. The scene? His knighting as Major. Dissent among Brittannians is palpable. It's to be expected. He's an Eleven! He's "one of them"! But unlike the Japanese, the Brittannians don't have "Well, they took over our homes!" to fall back on. I guess they're just not fond of Japanese people. But let's just "ignore" that. No one cares about Brittannia. They're the "bad guys". Let them be bad. After the knighting, Lloyd notices the room is quiet, so he claps alone. After a while, everyone else starts reluctantly clapping. I'd be bitter too.
Back on the Black Knight Boat, Riethard says that because Spinzaku is a pro-Brittannia Japanese citizen who's inspiring a small pro-Brittannian upsurge in Japanese people, they need to kill him. If he keeps doing that, the Black Knights will eventually look bad. It's not like they were doing well in the first place as far as the "public eye" was concerned, they were only popular with Elevens and a few defective Brittannians. Riethard thinks that if they kill Brittannia's Japanese poster boy, Japan will stop "accepting" their Brittannian overseers. But Ledouche says no. He's "above" assassination, and besides, he wants to take care of Spinzaku personally. Back in Ledouche's personal quarters, C.C. was fat and lazed around, and said things that were stupid. Ledouche reveals he doesn't want to Geassify Spinzaku and solve the issue entirely, making himself look dumber than C.C. is, warranting a swift kick in the sack plant, as no one should be dumber than C.C. He then wonders if he'll have to kill him if he doesn't Geassify him. He thinks that he can take Door Number 3 and get him to join him instead.
Back in Euphie's room, she talks to Cornelia about the knighting. Cornelia is passive-aggressive about the whole thing, as Spinzaku is an Eleven. Euphie's all, "But he's strong and brave and moral and stuff! He's the best one!" If this ideal about Brittannians celebrating people of strong spirit holds true, Cornelia should consider this and think on it some more. But NO, she retaliates by saying that as an Eleven, he is required by the state to be second rate. The high and mighty Euphie then takes a stand and says, "Well I'm gonna change that! You'll see, and then you all will wish you were nicer to me!" Cornelia is taken aback, and probably regretted that they were separated by satellite line, as I would wager she would have ripped Euphie's tongue out of her throat. It's the right thing to do. Self-righteous bitch that she is. Enjoy your precious alternative Knight choice. I'm sure you feel "special". I'm sure you want "redemption" for your new Japanese hero. I hope someone bombs your house.
In a weird adjourn that I can't get into very much right now, The Emperor Of Brittannia briefly discusses the Thought Elevator and some sneaky shenanigans by Schneizel, Ledouche's brother.
Back to Ledouche's school! They're holding a party for Spinzaku. Seems a lot of Brittannian kids are there. This contradiction does NOT, however, alleviate Brittannia from the bias its citizens are famous for. Spinzaku is a council member, and the party was Nunnally's idea, she had to find people willing to come. What's more, they're celebrating his knighting. As far as that few is concerned, he might as well be Brittannian. Long story short, if most Brittannians were as tolerant as this little shindig would like to suggest, there'd be a lot more disapproval from Brittannian citizens. But they're not a problem, are they?
Nina, not going to the party for being one of the many who don't like Japanese people, took a break from looking at ** dragon breath ** porn to stare at an isotope. Lloyd walked in and saw it on the screen, and they both geeked out and traded Pokeyman cards. Back at the party, Kallen tried to kill Spinzaku, but failed. Too bad. Lloyd then arrived on the scene to pick up his baby boy because he had to go clean his room. He also dropped the bomb on the fact that he and Milly are gonna be hitched. Rivalz then emo'd out and went to go put his todger in a stuffed animal with Milly's face plastered on it.
On their boat, Spinzaku was sailing off to meet this guy. Ledouche decided to gather up his Black Knights and take advantage of a naval area strike, because they can't really fight in this situation. His plan? Capture Spinzaku and his Gundam. That way, he could persuade him to join the Knights. Euphie's ship finally docks, and they get ready to move out and meet this guy. But the Black Knights blow up headquarters. Time to get Euphie out of there and back to Japan! She tells Spinzaku to stay and help them defend headquarters. But the liaison doesn't want any. Spinzaku's Japanese and he'll defect to the Black Knights! Lloyd decided to quell the issue by telling him to do what Euphie says, because SHE'S Sub-Viceroy and if he doesn't do what she says she'll tell on him. So he did. Euphie told Spinzaku to fight hard so that Brittannians will maybe think of him as a human, and he goes off to get suited up for battle.
All of the Knightmares start trading blows, and Spinzaku finds Ledouche. He swoops in to take him out, but Rakshata presses a button and gives all of the Knightmares the magnet effect. Now his doesn't work. Brittannian forces decided that they can use Spinzaku for their own personal gain and win this battle. They tell him to keep Ledouche there so they can blow everybody up, including Spinzaku. So he does. Good boy. But no ginger snaps or tummy rubs for him, he's gonna die. Euphie gets scared and tries to help Spinzaku, but they're all, "No, we have to do this. Besides, he's an Eleven, they're like bomb sniffing robots. We'll just get another one!"
Down on the ground, Ledouche begs Spinzaku to please join his special club. The Japanese people will be happy at him if he does! But Spinzaku says no. Fighting Brittannia is bad. As far as he's concerned, Brittannia could be good if he "changes" it. Brittannia isn't even good enough for their own poster boy. Spinzaku gets the order to hold Ledouche down, and he does, even though he's gonna die. Kallen almost tries to step in, but doesn't. Euphie tries to stop what's going on, but the liaison from before says that someone went over her head and now he doesn't have to do what she says anymore. Point Liaison. But Euphie decides she's gonna stand in the way of the attacks. They won't hurt her!
As Euphie rushes to the battlefield, Kallen does too. Maybe if she reveals herself to be his classmate, Spinzaku will stop fighting! Spinzaku puts Ledouche in his Knightmare. Ledouche reminds him that he'll die if he does this. Through a mixture of stubbornness and holding fast to his original brilliant master plan, Spinzaku decides to stare at Ledouche like an idiot and pretend he didn't say anything of consequence. As everyone in the area gets ready to die, Schneizel appears on the scene and shoots everybody.
Everyone then died, completing the Code Geass series.
THE END!
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