Anyways this episode is awsome and got me all excited.. I wonder when lelouche will claim his spot as the prince or something or announce it.
if i were lelouche i would go for a foursome with kallen, C.C. and shirley. with all these geass users and special weapons against lelouche, he must gain some awsome weapons and/or allies.

Rofl olympic torch protest gone overboard hahaha.. dude u r awsome with these blogs.

’tis obviously a joke of course. :P

Still gotta finish the original Code Geass before watching this one though. >_> Luckily I only skim through to read the funny comment so it isn’t exactly spoiled for me, except maybe a few character appearances. lol

And damn, I really should do some political research and start forming my own opinion on the subject. Kinda bothered by how much smarter everyone seems. XD

In other words, pro or anti they are just a bunch of morons under different banner condemning each other. Instead of moving forward, everything remains status quo….

And its fine with me if the protests hurt Chinese reforms. Err, wont that hurt china as a whole? Fine with me. Whatever happen to the good old fashion US cold war blind all consuming and extremely paranoid communist hate? ;)

OOOOOOOOOOO, perfect avatar! LOL

Well I can certainly appreciate the whole grunt point of view, but the show doesn’t seem to offer much else. It had some good animation, mech designs and music, but there really wasn’t much of a plot, the romance was just silly and the characters, while likeable, lacked any real development. In the end, I found 08th MS Team to be disappointing, since I see it often praised as the best Gundam series.

Young Chinese people, people who are IT savvy and connected, the kind who are vital to any future reform process, are overwhelmingly in support of the government on this issue. Olympic is a matter of national and racial pride and they see this as a huge Western conspiracy to put China down. The English-speaking world has no idea what kind fury passion and anti-Western sentiments it has unleashed even in the most formerly apathetic Chinese.

Westerners have a screwed up idea of China and pat themselves on the back for their efforts to “improve” China’s human rights issues, forever stuck in the groupthink that pegs China as some kind of barbarian territory. Chinese youth, whether or not they are critical of the government, do not like this condescending attitude.

Boycotting the Olympic would be the greatest setback ever for people who are actually introducing reforms in China because they will be labelled as being pro-West and anti-Chinese in the ensuring firestorm of nationalism that is already happening. But Western activists don’t actually care about bringing change, they are just out to antagonize and demonize an entire nation for their own ego trip.