What was the saddest part of Eva for you?

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Postby Princess Asuka » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:04 am

Probably with Misato hearing Kaji's last words on the answering machine.

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Postby MisatoCrush » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:12 am

View Original PostPrincess Asuka wrote:Probably with Misato hearing Kaji's last words on the answering machine.


Oh man I forgot about that. Yes that's up there also.

@ Mr. Tines: I found previously existing threads discussing sad moments, so I'm gonna go read all of that. I'll keep an eye out to see if you shared more about your opinion about the saddest moments being at the end.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:52 am

Ah, yes. Related thread

http://forum.evageeks.org/thread/8939/What-was-the-saddest-part-of-Eva-for-you/
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Postby Reichu » Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:49 am

Related? More like identical. Merged.

My picks:

- Kyoko-sama's death. (Somebody needs to mourn the one who experienced that horrific mutilation first-hand. Hell with Asuka.)
- The "Goodbye, Mother" scene.
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Postby Giji Shinka » Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:44 pm

Kaworu's death, both NME and NGE.
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Postby MisatoCrush » Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:36 am

Just read through this entire thread.

I'm moving up Asuka's death as an equal tie with Misato's kiss/death.

Everything happened so fast during Asuka's MP Eva battle and I was struggling to keep up with the Jap Subs. After reflecting I realize Shinji's inability/refusal to fight made Asuka's death even sadder. He could have prevented her from that pain and horror of being eaten and ripped. But he sat there.

I'm not blaming him. Shit was messed all around. But he still didn't help in time.

Oh man, not sure I can marathon it by myself again.

@Mr. Tines: You mind sharing which parts of the end of EoE in particular you found sad? Although I may have missed your comments from 4 years ago in this thread.
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Postby Rei IV » Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:40 am

View Original PostReichu wrote:- The "Goodbye, Mother" scene.

That scene was very tender and emotional when I look back at it and it was one of the more pleasant scenes in a overall unpleasant movie. I refuse to believe in the notion that Yui-san does NOT care for Shinji. I understand why some take issue with her character and her actions and she sure hell ain't going to win "Mother of the Year" award but I could never take seriously the claim she doesn't love/care for only child from some her detractors. Lies, I tell you!

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Postby Reichu » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:55 am

Rei IV: I'm confused -- are you arguing that I shouldn't have listed it as "sad"?
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Postby Rei IV » Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:02 pm

View Original PostReichu wrote:Rei IV: I'm confused -- are you arguing that I shouldn't have listed it as "sad"?

No, Reichu, I'm not arguing anything, actually.

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My point was that that particular scene in EoE was very tender and emotional. Many Yui detractors love to argue (using this scene, believe it or not) that she really "doesn't care for Shinji" with all the shit that went on, how she would've stayed with him and blah, blah, blah, blah. When I look it again (the scene), I find it hard to believe the woman does not love/care for her child on some emotional level. She may not win the "Mother of the Year" award but the suggestion she has no empathy/love/care for her son is asinine. Hope this clarifies some things.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:20 pm

View Original PostMisatoCrush wrote:@Mr. Tines: You mind sharing which parts of the end of EoE in particular you found sad? Although I may have missed your comments from 4 years ago in this thread.
Up-thread I only mentioned episode 16. For me, in EoE, it was seeing Asuka broken on the beach, pretty much back in the bathtub.
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Postby CJD » Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:40 pm

Three Scenes come to mind.

This scene in episode 20

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The final scene of Episode 22, and as

View Original Postbarccy wrote:When Eva ended, leaving me longing for more.


stated, the ending.
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Postby delispin25 » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:10 pm

Episode 4, when Shinji is camping with Kensuke. Don't know why, but it really struck a cord with me.
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Postby MisatoCrush » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:13 pm

Ah I love this forum.
On my own I never would have thought about the music, or bothered to learn the lyrics.

During 3I and the rapture I knew it was sad as hell. As GNR grew out of the Earth to enormous heights the music was sad and tragic and melancholy. But I never would have thought of the actual song without seeing references on EGF.

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Postby ApolloIVtv » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:52 am

I actually think a lot of what happens episode 26' to be really sad, like Gendo's final words about Shinji, the dialogue between Yui and Fuyutsuki in the end, the scene where Rei takes all of the character's souls into Instrumentality, the end itself, but in terms of "holy shit that really gets the feel out of me", Asuka's death. Not that it really makes me "sad", but you can just feel the rage and hatred in her eyes and her words, and once the MPE's strike her and Maya screams to Shinji about her death, it really hits you. Actually, pretty much of all of Asuka's major character scenes are like that. The scene inside her head in ep 22, and especially in 22', her case in 25, and others like that were always very effective to me.

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Postby Chuckman » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:21 am

The part where Shinji and Asuka didn't get married and have all the babies.

At least not in a blasted hellscape where they hate each other and cling together only for survival and companionship in a dead world drowned in blood and she dies from puerperal fever.
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Postby Shinoyami65 » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:50 am

^Dies from what now?

Well, I was expecting them to starve to death anyway...unless the white ground is made of marshmallow or Shinji's been nomming on Lilith's leftover bits.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:56 am

View Original PostShinoyami65 wrote:^Dies from what now?
Various infections acquired in the messy process of childbirth -- a very common cause of death in historical times.
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Postby Dataprime » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:14 pm

Such a sweet scene yet, sad all at same time
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Postby Chuckman » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:55 pm

His eyes being open kind of ruins it a little.
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Postby Dataprime » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:57 pm

Yea, I know I was thinking that too before I posted. :lol:

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