Xard wrote:Stop whining and bite the bullet. If couple of "last time happened" bits are enough to throw you off there's nothing that can be done.

So accept it and skip shit or go and watch it all. You can't have it both ways.

Yeah, I guess those are the only options...to be honest I don't go out of my way to watch something that is deemed horrible, even out of curiosity, but I'm just going to have to accept the fact that I will eventually come across something I hate, even in a series that was good for its first 22 episodes.

Anyway, I'll do what Anno says and watch 30 and 31. One last question before I do though. When I begin to watch episode 30, is there really anything I need to know in terms of previous episodes(23-29) to fully understand it, or can I just take the fact that Grandis men having a competition is just a dream?

Edit: Nvm, I just realized what I just said.

Yeah, i skipped the island arc, watched eps 30 and 31 and skipped africa as well,

though i did watch part of one of the island episodes, forget which one, but yeah, almost right away you can tell Anno's not the one calling the shots.

It seriously turned a cartoon that had at least semi real physics for their characters into almost full-on Looney Tunes.

Just finished to watch it. Amazing crescendo for the final episodes and 31 too, really, really liked it. I watched 30 too, but all the other bad ones I just watched in terms of recap from the following episode (i.e. learned about 23 from the recap in 24, about 24 from the recap in 25 and so on) and still it all felt pretty dreadful, especially the African part.

I didn't remember so many elements that would be used again also in Eva, from the


Really happy to have bought the nice American boxset.

I need to get on and watch Nadia- I've watched the other 2 series from the Anno Triforce of Awesome (Evangelion and Gunbuster) anbd it would be heresy not to watch all 3.

Being the obsessive completionist I am I'll probably watch the whole thing first time (even the outrageously bad Africa arc) just so I can say I've seen the whole thing.

Also, dark-skinned female Shinji. That's perfect.

As for the movie...Well, I've watched Mars of Destruction. it can't be worse than that.

For what it's worth, i personally didn't find the Island arc generally as bad/horrible as people said it was and first couple of episodes aside it was a blast because of how hilariously ridiculous most of the plots were.

Africa arc though, yeah that's just so bad it's bad. I liked some of the songs in the musical episode though.

After finishing Nadia, you may want to watch Kare Kano as well. It was Anno's next work after NGE, and it's as good (or better) as you would expect from Gainax.

I recently watched all of Nadia:SOBW with prior warning that the arc episodes had a big fall-off in quality.

I did find them hard to get through, but the odd trinket (Marie's journal, the circus flashbacks...) made it worth it!

It's a shame the creative team didn't get some earlier warning that the needed more episodes, & use them to flesh out some things that didn't get fully explained in the later episodes.

The island episodes were bad as a whole, but they did have some good scenes and concepts in them. In addition to the scenes you mentioned, I would add Gargoyle's "funeral" for Nemo.