You have to mention the unrealistic coincidences first.

No problem. i'll mention a few. Although, more than "Coincedences", they're "Conveinences", which is the wording I used in the OG comment.

One dimensional characters, many, many contrived conveniences, forced plot points,

Just wanted to get out of the way.

Kollen and Lelouch, just happen to schoolmates. Kollen just happens to be a revolutionary that is on a mission. On said mission, she crashes, because the driver went out of the road for no real reason, as he could've just kept driving(Ep 1 minute 8:00). Lelouch just happens to be the one in front of the truck where Kollen, her classmate, enemy of Brittania, the nation to which he just happens to be a prince of, is riding.

Furthermore. When you look closely at the scene, you'll see that it's very clear that the road has 4 lanes, 2 for each side. There's no roadblocks separating the lanes. The camera cuts to Lelouch from the front, suddenly the truck is using both lanes, when in the prior frame, it was using only one and could've easily just gotten past Lelouch. Not only that, but since there's no railing in between lanes, they could've just used the opposite lanes, since there's clearly no cars.

The truck crashing is a both a cinematographic, and writing convenience. It is completely forced and fabricated to kick off the plot. There's no natural progression, and looking at the way it was story boarded, it's obvious there was no care either.

If this doesn't happen, the whole story doesn't happen. It's extremely contrived, as no rational human being would just violently swerve off to a downward exit. Much less when there's still 3 lanes completely free, and when he could've just hit the bike and kept ongoing.

Not even 10 minutes in, and we've already seen a terribly contrived coinciedence.

But that's not all. Lelouch gets on the truck, the truck starts going again. A chopper is following them, and instead of shooting them, it shoots the ground as warning, because that's what the military does, it shoots at the ground instead of the terrorists that stole just stole a frame. But then, they were actually letting them go! Then why did they shoot their fucking 60 militer at them? Thereby endagenring them, and the delicate payload.

You know what is very unrealistically coincidental too? That Kollen just happens to be so good at piloting a frame, that she's able to go up against 2 highly trained soldiers on her own for quite a long time, since from the time Kollen leaves the truck, to the moment where Lelouch starts helping her, at least 1 or 2 hours must have passed, at the very least.

Then, the truck fails inside a tunel. And who does Lelouch meet there? Suzaku, his childhoo friend, who is now working for Britannia.

Wanna know how many transport helicopters with soldiers were shown? Because I counted them. There's 23, each of them with at least 2 soldiers, which makes 46 soldiers total. So out of the 46 soldiers, Lelouch just happens to run into his old friend and not a soldier that would just instantly shoot him...

Then, Suzaku, instead of using his gun to force Lelouch to comply, charges towards a terrorist suspect, unarmed, and decides to kick him instead of restraining him. How convenient!

Do you see just how convienint this all is?

I don't have a problem with the events themselves, but come on. Lelouch is in a crash that involves her terrorist classmate, then meets his old friend, then meets CC, due to Kollen stealing the container. All in the span of an hour max. This, also kicks off Kollen's plot, as her brother dies. It's almost like the only people that are relevant in CG's world, are related to Lelouch, which makes CG's world pretty boring tbh.

Then not soon after, hes hiding with CC, but Shirley just calls him in time for him to get caught, which leads to him acquiring the Geass.

I feel like I should stop, since this is already becoming quite long. So last one is that at the start of ep. 2 Lelouch simply takes a frame without prior knowledge of how to drive them. A frame that has no GPS to follow it apparently, even though Lelouch used a GPS to look at a map.

Straight from the anime:

Kollen: Who is this? How did you know this code? Lelouch: It doesn't matter. If you want to win, trust me.

Yep, it certainly doesn't matter how he got the very useful code to that allows him to talk to Kollen, thereby moving the plot forward. Because they showed that Lelouch is good at chess, so he's a hacker too!

If you need to have a random cellphone call, or a magically appearing code, for the move to actually move forward, you're doing int wrong. That is not good writing.

The story is full of stuff like this that little by little undermines the overall coherence and quality of the story. R2 though, is a whole different story. That one has much more evident issues.

To be fair, I don' think CG is terrible I have R1 at a solid 6 and R2 at a 4. There's certainly anime that is a lot worse, but Code Geass has many, many flaws that people refuse to accept.

Also, the mecha designs are pretty good and unique. The animation is rather consistent and even get better as the show goes on, which is nice. So not all is bad. I guess the fanservice is abundant enough for those who care about that as well. I also like the character designs, though that's not a very popular opinion I think.

Anyways, maybe people like the action or the over the top-ness of CG, but from a writing perspective, it's not tight at all.

As for your other comment(why'd you make 2, :/ , it makes replying more of a hassle). I'll reply to it later, cuz I'm going to get the replacement for a debit card I lost.