First, wtf at VV using an automatic to kill Mariane and pick his cellphone after. That's so anticlimatic.
Second, this episode was awesome. I'm a sucker for evangelion/xeno'esque plot twist, and I didn't expect Code Geass to take this direction so openly. I knew there would be weird spiritual stuff since season 1 (was obvious considering the nature of their power), but I didn't think they would end up fighting over the collective consciousness of mankind.
Now the bad stuff...Am I the only one who feel like they are skipping way too much? Most scenes were amazing on their own, but when I look back at them, it feel like there is a ton missing. They are tossing away story arc without resolving anything. Nunally's death for example (still can't believe she is dead, even if the emperor said it), how Suzaku's joined Lelouch so easily (seriously...they spent the whole season building up tension between them, and absolutely nothing happened. Why bother then?).
I know there is 5 episodes left, but where is the school comedy that always defined the show? The lively character? The awesome drama that followed every important death? I can't pinpoint it exactly, but something is missing, and it's annoying me.
About Schniezel..I totally didnt expect him to last longer than the Emperor. I'm not sure what will happen next, but I'm worried it won't live up to this episode. How can the guy who doesn't know shit about Geass bring the show to a better climax than the emperor? I don't want the show to end with a normal war, when we saw God in episode 21.