All I can hope here is that Anno sorta knows how messy 3.0 was, and is doing his absolute best to make the best 4.0 that he can. In which case I wish him best of luck, and fingers crossed he really taps into his soul for something mesmerizing and transcendent, and as a bonus, satisfying. We've l...

Gendou should kill Gendou.

Oh, look I've posted here already! Opinion hasn't changed :)

I think it should be longer than the others by quite a bit. It needs to be epic in length to deal with all the stuff it didn't even touch in 3.0. Shinji's journey alone would almost require more time than normal. The real trick will be filling it with dramatic content, and not just exposition.

Himself.

Did you look at the audio files in the 6.1 Surround Sound or the 2.0 Stereo Sound? Surround. The music is mixed quieter than it should be, and the sound effects are extremely loud. It's a miracle there's no music in the center track, allowing for more untainted control of the vocals than us...

Sorry for the necrobump, but I've looked at the audio files themselves. It's not an illusion. In the finale, the music almost doesn't exist. Someone seems to have messed up, and you can only improve it with a clever combination of volume modulation, compression, and virtual channel trick...

That reminds me of Junji Ito's Uzumaki .... :bigeyes: If the FoIs were merging, possibly they were going to form a giant Eva-01? Were all of the souls of humanity meant to be stored in a giant core, shaped like Eva-01? You got it. In fact, I think the entire PLANET was supposed to. Check out th...

I don't think you should take everything Kaworu says seriously... He also tells Shinji that they are going to see each other again (right before dying). I don't even want to think about the implications that line could have. Therefore i pretend he said it for the sake of saying it. ...

It's a term of endearment from Mari. I'm sure they've had a lot of heart-to-hearts and crying together. You know, from the world ending. So they're really close friends now, and I'll bet Asuka's been telling her that even though Shinji did what he did, she really likes him an...

Best case scenario, it's an whole alternate version, that uses the preview scenes from 2.0, in the most amazing surprise Anno has ever pulled. Showing us what we thought we'd be getting at the time. It won't be, but it'd be amazing. Worst case, it's the same exact thing in 3d. C...

When they announced the name of 3.0 and the 2012 release they also announced that 4.0 would be coming out in 2013 if I recall correctly. That was on January 1st 2012, though, and needless to say Khara isn't very good at keeping deadlines. After 3.0 aired they also removed the "2013" f...

I'm not sure if she actually goes to a strict Catholic school-do those still exist in the post-2I world? (even today a really "strict" Catholic school is rare). Dunno if it's strict, but catholicism would certainly survive. People's beliefs are generally one of the las...

TBH, I think Pen Pen has been turned into a penguin Eva after Third Impact, but he retains his personality. And he'll show up in 4.0 out of nowhere to save Shinji. "I can't... do it! Aaaaah!" "SHIIINJIII!" *WURKKKK!* "Unit Pen-Pen!!?" seriously, all of Shinji...

I will say that the film has some really great emotional moments. Many of Kaworu and Shinji's bigger scenes are pretty great, and that whole final battle sequence was a mindfreaking roller-coaster. But some of the other elements seemed a bit waylaid.. The whole WILLE thing seemed like it require...

It's not that they don't get Eva, but they love certain characters so much, and their own, have known the other characters and their VAs for so long, they hate doing these 180s on them. Because there's this emotional attachment, right? It's tough to do. Especially with what Ogata was...

Personally, I felt the emphasis on "that pilot" in the original version of this was misleading when I actually got to see/hear it, seeing the script alone made me expect something very different. He sounded more... awkward, confused or uncertain than anything else, like he really doesn...

Yeah, maybe with himself. That's probably the best he can hope for.

I forget... Has anyone talked about Asuka calling out to Shinji in the intro, in her apparently final moments, even though he's presumed dead or something?

I always thought that was interesting.

To be honest, I hope he makes his ending... somewhat satisfying this time around? Not that the other endings for Evangelion weren't really cool, but it feels like this is the last chance to give the audience or the characters any kind of remotely positive catharsis (tv show doesn't count...

How did Kaworu even think the spears would work?