By asking the second question it doesn't matter if I'm the target audience or not, and it doesn't matter whether or not I actually cared for the element in question. You liked anime and watched the original show. What else would the target audience be? Also, "I'm not the target...

Well, I don't know about it (the slow degeneration that GasmaskAvenger mentioned) since I'm here from only this summer but it does really look like you're taking it too seriously at times (especially ran1 and his idea of the "Rebuild-hate team") and that you...

I'm not sure I agree. But, that said, my dislike of it is such that I don't think I can judge it objectively. I normally make an effort to separate my feelings on a work from my judgment of its execution, but I admit it's difficult in this case. There's no such thing as an objective...

Bagheera#403903 wrote:Doesn't that presume that Asuka's been written off, though?

My point was limited to 2.0. The fact remains that the Bardiel subplot was horribly ineffective and cringe-worthy, even if they have some Super Awesome McBadass storyline planned for Asuka.

I think Asuka isn't the point of the exercise anymore. I think we're being told that his relationship with Asuka isn't important the way it was in NGE, and that what is important is his relationship with Rei. That's what I'm getting out of 2.xx. That's not really the point. ...

When the day came to shoot Shiki Jitsu's climax Anno turned up on scene saying "I have no script" and explaining development of the scene in abstract sense, leaving actors's improvise many minutes long continuous take. This wasn't out of sloppiness or lazyness either, he wante...

All I know for sure is that everything that was done in Rebuild was done with great deliberation; none of it seems to be off the cuff (or so it seems to me, based on analysis of scenes that reference NGE). I take it you haven't read Enokido's "We cut 30 minutes at the last second" memos y...

Make Gendo watch all of Key's anime until he attempts suicide.

Give Rei II a cute hat.

Gendo is planning to return to a time before his son was born? What is Langley holding back. Shes only interested in Shinji when she thinks Rei is. Does she idolise Rei. Desire even. Puts on a eye patch? Yes, Rebuild is in fact a story of forbidden Sapphic love. 3.0 will end with Asuka and Rei kill...

I suggest we add the three Puchi Eva Reis and Angelic Days Rei as well.

You can say that Mari would have ended up being little more than a Soryu's clone but it's not true, her desire to live with others, her attitude towards Shinj A lonely female character who shows interest in Shinji? NGE has too many of those already. Even the pre-battle lecture followed by a...

I can understand the frustration, from a fan's point-of-view, of writers and filmmakers not having everything--or at least, a majority of the storytelling--mapped out ahead of time. But from a writer's point-of-view, that kind of task is not just (needlessly) difficult, but ridiculo...

Kare Kano scuked long before Anno left. His directorial bag of tricks isn't enough to make the bland, vacuous characters or tension-free story remotely interesting.

ITT Hyper Shinchan bitches at everyone who doesn't agree with him and then pretends he's being persecuted by a shadow dictatorship.

NemZ#401764 wrote:Most people would apparently not include Ritsuko, who bluntly contradicts this as being a big deal.

How can this possibly be evidence in favor of a rape?

TehDonutKing is not in any way a fakeposter and his threads should be met with lengthy and earnest replies.

shinji_ryoji_89#401733 wrote: As long as it's not wasted time, of course.

Judging from 2.0, they might just use the extra hour for a subplot involving Toji and Kensuke operating their own pirate radio station or something.

I'm honestly not at all surprised by the contents of this memo--the scene always smacked to me of "Let's try to give Asuka some sort of relationship to Shinji in under two minutes!" But yeah, it's pretty disheartening.

Oy weh.