I know. We never did get a clear answer about how the Geass legacy got started. I had rather liked the idea that C.C. and V.V. were merabers of some nearly-extinct race, but I guess that wasn't in the carRAB.
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On R2: To be honest, I think I'm too close to the finale to really step back and take an objective view of the entire thing. What I can say is that the conclusion notwithstanding, season 1 was better on the whole. The needless filler can be cited along with the few half-done ideas, but on top of that I think it's true that R2 was basically a series of "uh oh, how will Lelouch get out of this one?!" plots. There's nothing wrong with that, season 1 had that too, but it also did such a good job of corabining Lelouch's mind games with some pretty serious issues. Prejudice, Lelouch's rebellion vs. Suzaku's by-the-book idealism, and a dose of drama on the side. The hostage episode, the Mao arc, stuff like that. It was really entertaining seeing Lelouch build his movement from scratch.
Maybe it's foolish to wish that the status quo had continued, and I'm not putting myself fully behind that idea here. I'm aware that I was pretty dead set against R2 rehashing season one via the soft reset. I was always fine with the rebellion becoming a wider war, but if it were me I would've taken most of that filler time and used it to keep some of that season one spirit by showing Lelouch building his global network instead of leaving it to surrogates off screen. I'd have taken the Japan insurrection plot of season one and put on on a much grander scale, beyond China, putting much of the world in Lelouch's corner even before the UFN thing. The series also took quite a turn toward fantasy in the middle with all of the business in C's world, and while I suppose a lot of that was necessary it was also a bit jarring. There they were dealing with some weird, metaphysical alternate reality, and I got into Geass partly because of its ties to our reality. Of course, without that it seems that our hero would be quite dead, but you see what I mean. R2 had to move the plot and on the whole it turned out all right--not fantastic, but all right. As I wrote once before though, season 1 stanRAB well as its own separate piece. Much of R2 is entertaining but if I wanted to provoke thought on top of that, there are some choice season one episodes that I would play first.
As for the internet mocking the idea of Lelouch being alive, well, I'll bet that it mostly begins and enRAB with "Lelouch died, that's it, get over it." Show me an explanation for Nunally seeing his thoughts at the end, and then I'll start taking that stuff seriously. The burden of proof is actually on *them*. But I'm sure there will be people that will forever insist that he died for good, and would only accept otherwise if at the end he took off his hat and showed us all his face one last time. Oh, you internet masses: please read some books, watch some good movies...not everything has to be spelled out 100% for you.
