Do you mean...the stereotypical edited-for-TV dub, or a chimerical mash-up of unrelated series? 'Cause...by eighties TV standards, Robotech wasn't that edited for the usual culprits (for alcohol and smoking), though some stuff in this vein was cut. If it's the first one, Macek is...

Love means I love it; no other way to put it. I don't believe the series has ever taught me anything about human love, not even the love of the self, because my quest for that is ongoing. But the love of being entertained, of being intellectually stimulated, that is present in spades. I love the...

Just get them all, and enjoy the experience. There's nothing else quite like it. They can be read out of order though I wouldn't advise it, and definitely don't read vol. 9 or 10 before the others. Oh dear sweetness and light, please do! The Sandman is a great, great comic. :toothy: Oth...

"Pretentious" means "pretensions", which means an assumption, a putting on of airs. If you want to be as literal as all that, NGE is far from pretentious. Rather, I think it's the opposite. It's honest, it's raw, it's unaffected and heartfelt. Yes, there is plenty...

re: NGE and Eraserhead I was referring to the more emotional and character-related aspects when I talked of NGE being more "direct". That I didn't make clear. I do believe as a whole there are some parallels to how NGE presents itself and how Eraserhead (and Lynch's other work&...

I actually think Eraserhead is pretty simple when you look at it as merely nightmarish metaphors on common male fears and in particular marriage and fatherhood. NGE is more allegorical while Eraserhead is more surreal and openly metaphoric. But in terms of difficulty, I still give the edge to NGE &...

That's an excellent short summary of what makes the series resonate for so many, and I think it's dead on. There are so few films that come to mind that even get close... some from David Lynch (Eraserhead especially) and perhaps Bergman's Persona. I haven't yet seen "Pe...

I've written a fair amount: about thirteen stories, and more in the works. But none of them are Evangelion, so that might not count. I don't ever plan to do any NGE fics, because first I'd have to know what's going on, and also have some places where a thing needed to be told. I can&...

[Stuff about Shinji]

No.

Characters don't "have to" do anything. Shinji is what he is. Change him, make him follow the "rules", then you undermine the whole deal.

Emotional resonance. No other series is just so *good* at capturing what a diseased, broken, insecure mind feels like. It's lost none of its power in the six years I've known it. I do appreciate the surrealism and designs in the series, but that is the major one for me, the reason why NGE is...

V wrote:you like Rei most?

Er...nope. Hence why this is a surprise. She kind of scares me.

Never has this thread title been more appropriate for me. ^_^ I went on a buying binge of things, and one of the items I sucked up was this: http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c234/Incisivis/Blog%20Post%20Images/teh_rei.jpg Oh, god, for me that's like letting Optimus Prime into my house. Or Hikar...

PM'd, V, because people on this forum might like to kick my ass if I mention it.

But I still am going to be finding ways to make contributions, don't fret.

I found me on Kaworu's head.

Nnnnarrghh....

I have no excuse but a new obsession taking up most of my time, and the fact that my options were limited to begin with.

But I love you guys, truly.

:)

*does the little eh-eh gesture with her hand* I'm about the middle of the road. I have a "to-watch" list that's fairly long, and a "have seen" list that's fairly decent but I'm slow in gathering it up, unless I find something I really really like and then I seek i...

Love the dark Eva-01 card there.

But some Magic cards have small quotations on them, after the stats; I'd like to see those on the NGE cards; they lend a sense of humour or irony to 'em.

Add me to the chorus who doesn't think that this has anything to do with Evangelion, but is rather just the problems of one person, now seen through the mirror of NGE. Eva Yojimbo's quote is very fitting, then. What else can I say but that there's a fine line between nerddom and full-blo...

It's an irrational thing, but I don't ever see the point of turning animation into live action. I feel animation is a more authentic expression of fantasy, and even if it's objectively not, the styles are different in some ways. Not that this *can't* be done, but I don't see the ...

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