Perhaps I wasn't clear:

There is a discernible difference between being dead-set on NTE being a sequel and merely being open to the idea of NTE being a sequel. When I say "close-minded", I am referring to a refusal of the latter, not the former.

Let NGE go... at least when discussing Rebuild. Seriously; there's liking something and then there's this... being such a fanboy that you can't enjoy the reboot without somehow linking it, in-universe to the original is sad. [...] And please don't try and explain how any of these are connected (the...

Blade Runner 2049 was a fantastic film. Ray's cautious pessimism can be assuaged.

FOUR ENTIRE MOVIES worth of narrative cohesion and integral structure coaxes far too much investment from the audiences in order for a dream ending to even be interesting. And waiting until the very end of FOUR ENTIRE MOVIES to reveal to the audience that it was a sequel to something else entirely ...

NTE’s larger budget doesn’t only give its audience more spectacular battle scenes, but it also gives audience more detailed character animation. As a result more nuanced things are conveyed through character blocking and movement than they were for the original TV series. Okay... :chinscratch: I me...

The films require the audience to be more engaged as Anno is actually doing some subtle work for once while still making his broadest spectacle driven features yet loaded with action scenes. I am completely lost when it comes to this mindset. In what ways is NTE more subtle than NGE? (I'm not neces...

Archangel wrote:It's a sequel = boring

It's all a dream Shinji is having in the sea of LCL during End of Eva = boring and lame.

Is that necessarily so? I'd say it's all dependent on how these concepts would be utilized, more than anything else.

A single explanation can generate hundreds of interpretations. Human interactions are a fixed value of 0 and 1,they can be every value in between and can be read in many ways. Maybe I should have used "extensively documented" instead of "fully explained" to better explain what I...

I really disagree with this. As one of the regular posters here points out, NGE was often guilty of telling us its point instead of showing, e.g. Shinji's conversations with his subconscious self on the traincar. EoE actually tells you the point it's trying to make through Yui's monologue at the en...

I am not dismissing his claim that NTE isn't as good as NGE. I'm only challenging his logic getting there. I don't think NTE is as good as NGE either. Okay, that makes much more sense to me. Sorry for misinterpreting. But that doesn't keep NTE from being good or even impressive in its own right. I ...

Depressed Corn Man wrote:But really though let's focus on the happy parts of NGE itt.

How about this: what do you consider the happy parts of NGE?

Yeah, I saw DD's videos, and they're only slightly better than this. His claims still lack the proper context of both the series, the movies, and the other titles he compares them to. He'll claim that it wasn't the multiple characters and short duration that made NTE "fail" in character d...

Evangelion (and particularly The End of Evangelion) is beautiful to me because it presents us with all the absolute worst, most horrifying, most depressing things that we can experience in life and says that despite all of that, it's still a life worth living. Whenever I get down, I try to remember ...

Re: "After that"/"The End" -- the former is indeed referring to "continuation", so the simplest interpretation IMO is that this is just telling us what we already know, that 3+1 is both a continuation (following on from 3.0) and the ending (final entry). Oh that's with...

^^ Must be crazy to go through something like that. Like Evangelion's destiny is finally being fulfilled, or something. :tongue: Also, about the poster itself: I find it interesting that the words "NOT" and "ANTI" are very alike, while the phrases "After that" and "...

^Very good points here.

Also, if Evangelion had a clearer approach, I'm guessing about half the threads in this section ("Evangelion Discussion") wouldn't even exist.

Nonsense. The show never once addresses the moral issues of a Death Note in any real fashion. But I never said that it addresses moral issues. I said that it demonstrates how power can corrupt. I didn't say anything regarding the discussion of morals. Light STARTS the show as a crazed sociopath who...

Just like the subpar show, the movie jumps over the most interesting concept of the Death Note - how would a book with this power corrupt someone The show definitely addresses this, but from what I can gather it just didn't do it enough for you. Which I can understand. But it was still my main take...

1.0-2.0 is Shinji's "dream" during 3rd Impact (Retribution), seemingly ended by Kaworu in 2.0 but actually ended by Asuka during Eva 01's awakening at the beginning of 3.0. Shinji 2.0 is reborn when Shinji 3.0 is retrieved from space, connecting Shinji's dream with reality. This is why he...

Unit-01 is heavily implied to be one of the four Adams in NTE. Unit-13 as well. For 13, they skip the "imply" part and just flat-out state it. :tongue: In other words, I've seriously got to re-watch the Rebuilds. Regardless, I like the idea of all the excess LCL being linked to the Chambe...