Watched a few episodes of Code Geass.  Indeed interesting, but as said, it does have a number of questionable things:
It's got a little bit of non-action/scheming plots, but they're rather minor and really just a bit of an aside (comical relief perhaps) to the main plotline.
But if you just go along with everything, it's quite entertaining.
English dubbing is reasonable good, but then, it's probably easier to dub than a number of other shows.