Depends on exactly how camp we're intended to find Kaworu

If there hadn't been the volume of demand for it that there was I imagine Anno would've been fine with just walking away from the series (and anime in general) in frustration after EoTV. He ended up doing that anyway midway through Kare Kano.

I just love that Evangelion needs to give even a bomb collar a cryptic religious name.

How could anyone disagree with the objective truth about Eva

Getting flashbacks to the era of autistic Guy Fawkes mask man

For those who don't know, the song's title is another Bach reference - the original "Come, Sweet Death" is a religious song about... well, see for yourself.

Reichu#829355 wrote:So it's episode 23 that exists in a vacuum, then? Lots of weird compartmentalizing here.

Perhaps episode 23 exists in something other than the specific narrative you've formed in your reading of her character

According to the KS page it'll be included on DVDs. I feel kinda bad for people who liked the original dub (though I haven't seen it myself) considering it sure seems like Funimation will be doing the new one with their usual in-crowd and not the original VAs up in Canada. I hope that doesn't set a ...

Of course it's not coming out of a vacuum, it's a climactic, spur-of-the-moment culmination of desperation stemming from both her present situation and her inability to reach Shinji, that ironically (tragically) undermines everything she had built up prior to that point in terms of being a mother fi...

So Funimation is re-releasing Escaflowne on Blu-Ray - but they're not just re-releasing it on Blu-Ray, they're also doing some Kickstarter thing to gauge interest in a super-deluxe release with a new dub, director and production staff being brought over for a US con, and possibly other special featu...

The best part in 2.22 is when Unit 01 is rejecting the Dummy Plug and we know this because the Dummy Plug is screaming

Not sure how anyone could interpret the song's tone as anything but bitterly ironic

This argument reminds me of the whole "Did SEELE rape Ritsuko" debate, where the symbolic subtext is there but as a literal event it makes little to no sense in the context of the plot and would frankly be too tritely melodramatic even for Evangelion

What I'm saying is, that's one possible reading of the scene but not the only one; the scene itself is open to interpretation and should be acknowledged as such.

I remember reading somewhere, that Anno wrote the lyrics in Japanese and somebody translated them, heavily altered. The Japanese lyrics are a lot more on-the-nose, but the basic idea is still the same. Once upon a time I transcribed them on here from one of the OST companion booklets. Dunno if that...

Gonna get to the imagery soon, but while I'm thinking about it here are some things from the original series I still miss in Rebuild : - train scenes (you know, those train scenes) - character moments where ironically apropos radio or TV programming is buzzing in the background - psychosexual fucker...

I would have to echo this sentiment. To me it seems like people are splitting some mighty fine hairs, and that it doesn't really matter if Misato went in there to jump Shinji or not -- what matters is that what she did was inappropriate, or at least was perceived as such by both of them, and that h...

These days I can't listen to that damn song anymore, though I'm not quite sure if that's because it's such an insidious earworm or because it takes me to a dark place.

If anything, I think it's more that Shinji perceived sexual tension or undertones in that situation while Misato did not (consciously, at least). I rewatched ep. 25 just for this thread (<3) and I think it supports this reading. But again, the ambiguity of the scene is a crucial part of it - it's tr...

I don't want to sound like I'm wishing death on the man but when George R.R. Martin does die, I hope it's in the most random and anticlimactic way possible. Bonus points if he still hasn't finished those damn books.

The preview clip at the end of 3.33 looks surprisingly hideous though. This time I hope it really is all lies.

Still want to do that analysis post on 3.33's visuals when I have the time. Would anyone else be interested in making a project out of this?