Code Geass

You need to watch Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection, because it closes it out nicely. Without it, there is a certain something missing.

The other movies are just re-edits of the series with a few extra scenes, but it’s the same story. Re;surrection truly ends the story, and it’s worth the watch.

And I disagree the other way.

The series ending to Code Geass to me was disappointing and a massive cop out, leaving tons of what ifs and maybes. Until that Re;urrection, it was a show that I couldn’t go back and watch anymore after several full viewings, because the ending was so frustratingly lame. Endings need to be solid and book closing. Opened ended still full of questions endings bullshit is just that, bullshit. One of the tropes of anime story telling I hate.

What Re;surrection gives us is a thrill of watching excellent characters shine one more time, interact with each other again to give true closure to their relationships, the continued excellent actions sequences of the series as a whole, and in many ways some important answers to that world and lore in general that were otherwise left in the ether of a lame ending or “oh yay, we’re all moving on with our lives la la la la la.”

Re;surrection gives us an actual ending we can walk away from and feel serious closure with.

I think endings where it’s left open for the audience to imagine what happens ”next” is a good way to end

As a story teller, that kind of story telling is abominable to me. It is weak and shows a creator’s lack of will to actually end something. Fans should not be left to concoct what if scenarios once a story reaches its conclusion. A good writer/creator needs to have the balls to make an ending, not leave things open to “interpretation.”

Fans are the backbone of anything, and they should be honored with a good story, but at the same time, fans are also not story tellers, not the creators, and they should not be allowed to come up with what might have happened in place of what a creator intended.

That was what killed the Tenchi series. As someone who was prominent in the Tenchi Fanfic community at its height of power and popularity, I was there on the frontlines. The fact that they left the OAV open ended for so long was a mistake. Yeah, we all had a ball writing our own versions of what might have happened, but when they finally started putting out OAV 3 and beyond, it was one of the biggest let downs ever. It was all such convoluted garbage, it killed the franchise and everyone’s overall love and devotion.

So no, open ended is terrible as far as I’m concerned. A good creator/writer/story teller must have the fortitude to actually give a real ending. If there are other stories to tell afterwards, then new chapters can be written, but stories must have endings. All the greatest stories in history do.

In the past I found an assortment of free streaming sites that I have used…..but they are very messy with their players and such if you are running NoScript, and all of us should be.

I dunno if they are active or functioning anymore, because I don’t really remember their names, except for cartooncrazy…I think that’s what it was called.

Again, that’s your opinion. And I think it ended what the story was about. Japan finally got liberated and Britannia fell. Lelouch’s punishment for all he did was to die, Suzaku’s punishment was to kill his best friend and live on as Zero, the symbol he hated. But again, the worst part is how they handled Shirley, it erases Lelouch’s development and the beauty of Rolo’s arc and therefore I consider it trash.

Back to the ”open endings”, another example is the ending of Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans. It’s considered to be one of the best endings and in the end of the series minor spoilers for IBO for those who wants to avoid

the good guys pretty much doesn’t accomplish anything, as they basically gain more and more foothold during their journey but get too greedy and want more until they eventually ”fail”. They go from zero to hero to zero, and those who survive go back to hiding and living their normal life.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.

The reason is that when they released Re;surrection, they also released 3x HD compilation movies of Code Geass with some added scenes but a lot of stuff cut out (because of time limit). But the biggest difference in the movie version is that none of the Shirley drama happens = she doesn’t die because she’s not involved in anything, and Re;surrection follows this story. So it’s basically another timeline, if you will.

And this decision was absolutely catastrophic, it’s more of a ”happy ending” because she survives, but it cancels Lelouch’s development, his hatred for the curse known as Geass and Rolo’s death doesn’t feel as conflicting. I can’t stress enough how much I hate this decision, it pretty much ruins the second haldf of R2.