EVANGELION FRANCHISE DISCUSSION

[MouthForWar]

[king_ghidorah]

[planetxleader]

Rebuild definitely streamlines things, but to me some aspects actually felt kinda rushed. Like Shinji' and Toji's relationship (as I mentioned before), and Shinji's inner-monologue therapy sessions, which I think somehow needed to be a long and painful as they are in the show. :\

Mouth's right, End isn't terribly hard to understand, if you're familiar with Eva, anyway. This time, I had a grasp of what was going on before going into it, compared to my previous viewings of the series and the Rebuild movies ('nother motivation to re-watch someday).

The first half was fast-paced, exciting, and entertaining, but also cruel and messed up. I looked like this at its conclusion:



The second half is largely more mindtrip fun a la the latter half of the series, only more so. And the ending?.... I knew partially what I would be presented with, at least visually. What I wasn't expecting was its quiet solemnity... its really disturbing abruptness...

Yeah, End of Eva... wow. It's an experience.

[king_ghidorah]

I don't know...I think Rebuild gets rid of a lot of stuff that is fasinating, but better left on the cutting room floor

[planetxleader]

Well, the inner characters stuff admittedly does nothing to advance the plot.

...Though in the end, Eva is about the characters and not Robots, Angels, or Seele. God, I wonder what Anno's going to do with 3.0...

[metal_bryan]

Sorry I'm late to the thread.

Evangelion has been a love it/hate it series for me ever since I first had all of the VHS tapes back in the day... as well as a fansubbed VHS copy of the End Of Eva. I can honestly say the series was one of my favorites back then. All of the tokusatsu influence was obvious and it was easy for me to transition into it. It was one of the first anime series I really got into other than stuff on TV like Robotech, Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z. Evangelion blew my mind back then. It was so far beyond anything I'd thought about in the sci-fi medium at that point. I very much immersed myself in the story and all of the "symbolism."

Then years went by. I got older. Those VHS tapes ended up in storage and I moved on to a DVD boxset... and saw the full series in Japanese for the first time. My second love affair with Eva was nowhere near as strong. I found a great deal of respect for it and how ambitious it was. I thoroughly enjoyed the risks it took, but at the same time I was less forgiving of some of the more unnecessary devices. I think all of them have been mentioned in the thread already by others.

A little more time went by and I saw another show called RahXephon. I totally forgot all about Eva from that point onward. I still like Eva, but I am of the opinion that RahXephon took the same basic story and did it cohesively and much more powerfully. It may lack some of the outright ridiculousness of the last part of Eva and End Of Eva, but it makes up for it in characters you can actually care about... and a lead character that is broken, but not so broken as to alienate most of the audience. I highly urge fans of Eva to check out RahXephon and draw your own conclusions.

[MekaGojira3k]

[metal_bryan]

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]

Yesterday, I watched the first 6 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

It's ok...I find myself wanting to know more about the world and the universe they live in, though, and less about all the mental instabilities of the main characters. I probably only just warmed up to Shinji in the most recent episode and a half, as it seems he's finally quit being OVERLY whiny and is more dedicated to doing his duty and what is right (i understand he basically always stays a bit of a sissy, but if they can continue to strike the proper balance, like it feels like they finally have here, i'm fine with that).

Right now, it's just too vague for me to really CARE a whole lot. If there were some more background into what's going on and why it really matters, I'd probably be really into it, but the action feels like it's without any real context.

[MekaGojira3k]

[king_ghidorah]

[MekaGojira3k]

[kiryugoji04]

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]

[MekaGojira3k]

[kiryugoji04]

[king_ghidorah]

[kiryugoji04]

[MekaGojira3k]

[kiryugoji04]

[jellydonut25]

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]