"Theme from Shaft", by Isaac Hayes.

I think my biggest mistake was believing that the audio commentary for the ADV release of End of Evangelion was worth my time. Boy was I wrong.

This age of art being presented through potentially permanent mediums and presented in ways which have the possibility of even lesser works having a much longer shelf-life is relatively new. You hit the nail right on the head. That right there is the conundrum I ran into when I used to be more conc...

I'm under the impression that your usage of 'canon' is kind of an abstract term related to art's philosophy, and it does not touch profoundly the issue of some art being only appreciated by a tiny minority. I was under the impression that 'canon' referred to a collection of ...

This thread has been incredibly interesting to read through, and a lot of what I had to say looks like it’s already been said. I’ll try to be brief in adding the parts that haven’t already been touched on—though I have a tendency to be wordy, so sorry in advance. Another thing that keep it from beco...

Hamlet is superficially structured around revenge I probably should have gone deeper into what I meant with this statement, but yes, you're right. What I intended that statement to mean was that without revenge, there would have been no play. Revenge is the motivating factor for the character t...

You might be able to draw comparisons between Evangelion and Hamlet, but you could also draw comparisons between Evangelion and Catcher in the Rye , or even Evangelion and certain aspects of On the Road , so I don't think that comparison was really anything intended on part of the Evangelion cre...

I think Shinji's idea was that he would have been killed before Bardy even got to HQ...? Hmm... I kind of automatically assumed that Shinji'd survive the battle regardless of what Bariel did. The strangling thing was pretty harsh, but seeing as how Rei got her arm blasted off (and Unit-...

Regardless, I wonder if he really felt that much disappointment in Shinji or if he was mostly trying to spur him on... ?? Could be. That's one of those ambiguous "how do you feel about Gendo?" subjective things. Personally, I think it could go either way, or even be both. He'd be ...

Maybe that wasn't clear from my reply, but I actually agree with you on that - that's why I said Shinji seems to think he failed to obtain his father's love and attention. Gotcha. I kind of wondered about that when I posted, it seemed like that's where you were going, but I dunno. P...

the main point i've been attempting to make anyway is that the depiction of Shinji in EoE is justified, which seems to be at least one of the reasons for a dislike of Shinji due to the contrast between what we see of him in the movie to what we've seen of him earlier in the series. You'...

Supplier. An agency that huge would need astronomical amounts of paper, staples, coffee, clipboards, ballpoint pens, floppy discs, toner, bullets, water coolers, Section-2 suits & glasses & shoes, goofy little keyboard things that plug into the MAGI, floor wax, wrenches, all that stuff. And ...

I think the way to figure out why Shinji’s so hated is to focus more on the personalities of the viewers than on Shinji’s character itself. Since this is the approach I’m going with, the only real evidence I can use to support my claim is entirely anecdotal and based on my own various interpretation...

Oh man, I had a bunch of crazy ideas but I have to admit, Sadamoto & Deadlines has everything I could think up beaten. Here's a list I came up with this afternoon: Armisael x Rei I x AU Ep. 26 Wacko-Rei x Rei II x White Unit-00 Rei that blows up from Director’s Cut Ep. 23 x Dummy Plug System...

I prefer to read humor-fics. After EoE, the last thing I want is more depressing crap. Exactly. This is the frame of mind I've finally gotten to in regards to Eva fanfiction, both reading it and writing it. Granted, my output as a writer has never been astronomical, but hey, there's a littl...

--"Black Hyuga". I liked how he did it, and I think he did a great job, but it's still hilarious. "Haven't they hearda moderation?" --Almost everything about Fuyutsuki--especially the fact that he's only sitting down in a flashback or when he's tied up. --Technoba...

Since this is in order of 'preference' rather than by 'technical brilliance' or 'symbolic significance' or 'narrative significance' or anything else that can be pseudo-quantifiable, I'll try my best to do this off the top of my head. My favorite episodes are the o...