And yunno, trying to stop 4I during the climax If Unit-01 and Shinji are supposedly able to trigger impacts every time they sneeze, then why go through all the effort of retrieving them from orbit in the first place? Not to mention, I can't really say with any level of certainty what this version o...

Oh yes. Just like Gunbuster and Nadia Gunbuster I think came out in the late eighties and Nadia was early nineties, whereas Yamato 2199 was circa 2013. I would suggest that we're talking about vastly different eras for Mr. Anno. Because as we all know, neither Nemo nor Misato cared one bit about sa...

^ Good to hear. I was a little worried I might've been too subtle.

I wonder what 2199 would have been like with him in the lead? Wow. The mind boggles. I drop to my knees every night and thank whatever deities are listening that Anno didn't end up in charge of Yamato 2199. The plot would've been rendered almost completely incoherent, the characters would be neithe...

:lol: omg, I just reread it, and you're right. My post doesn't make any sense. I tried to say, that you like the designs of Yamato more than the designs of Q. And that's totally ok. I also tried to say, that I'm really fond of this new weird spin in design and how they executed it with CG. No worri...

^ I guess the plugsuits weren't really terrible (although I much prefer the style of the originals), but I was referring more to the faces of the characters. Some of them just looked kind of weird, almost like they wanted to draw them differently from the other movies. I wouldn't say it reached Epis...

So, what you're saying is, you don't like the underlying design sense of Yamato. I for myself love the surrealistic abstract aesthetic of Q, and think the choice to render them in CG only adds to the strangeness. Really brings the post apocalyptic landscape to life in all it's beautiful strangeness...

For what it's worth, I don't hate the AAA Wunder because it was rendered in CG. In fact, I didn't really have any issues with most of Rebuild's CG visuals up until Q, since I found just about everything from the Eva's to the retractable buildings to the Ramiel sequence, to be, well, in a word: Badas...

robersora#829674 wrote:People were extremely silent during the movie, though I saw at least 5 people leaving the cinema during the Wunder sequence...

Wow. That is just awesome. I wish I'd had the presence of mind to pull the ripcord and bail out at that point.

in episode 24 in the english dub, when they are preparing for Kaworu to breach terminal dogma, hyuga says "dying beside you wouldn't be a bad way to go", and Misato replies with "thank you". the way she says it sounds like she's flattered and a little bit surprised. to me, it di...

Honestly, I'm a little surprised that reports of laughter were related merely to the scenes that feature Kaworu. IMO the whole movie is just trying way too hard to be so relentlessly dark that it ends up short-circuiting a fair amount of the gravitas it was supposedly aiming for. So many people try ...

@Arcadia's legacy: Honestly, I'm not really sure. Every time I read a review that praises Q, it just rings rather hollow to me. This is probably a very bland response, but I guess in general all of the elements that the supporters of 3.33 love about it, just tend to have pretty much the opposite eff...

Another timeskip. Maybe go for 115 years this time around. Everyone will still look the same due to Curse of Eva or some other throwaway line. Misato trying to lay another guilt trip on Shinji in order to convince him to pilot again. Shinji's response, "Seriously? What are you, ON DOPE? Maybe I...

Gendo'sPapa#829465 wrote:Does 3.0 even have what you could call a joke?

Not unless you count that flimsy excuse for a plot...

Slow pitched softball, right over the middle of the plate.

It's not iffy at all since it's the very basis of Misato's character, and is explicitly described as such in ep 25. She uses sex, or perceives herself as a person who uses sex, to get what she wants... Another mild example of this type of behavior one might point to is her interaction with Hyuuga. ...

Misato's stated reason for being attracted to Kaji doesn't negate the possibility of her being attracted to Shinji for similar reasons -- that is, wanting a father she can fuck. True, but I would argue that the nature of her attraction/connection to Kaji seems (at least to me) very different from h...

IIRC Misato felt that Kaji was much more similar to her late father than Shinji. Doesn't she outright state that this was the reason she eventually broke up with him back when they were all hot 'n heavy during their college years? She resented how her father was so dedicated to his research/career t...

One of the MPEs makes an appearance in the Popeye cartoon "On Our Way to Rio": http://i.imgur.com/M4GFirC.jpg I was surprised to discover that this was not the only instance of a Popeye scene providing some foreshadowing of EoE. Basically, Olive Oyl's AT Field collapses (from about 5:40 t...

My hatred for 3.33 was quite strong initially and it has only improved with age. I've found that, like a fine wine, you gotta let your hatred breathe for a while before serving it at room temperature. Maybe with some imported cheese and assorted fresh fruit. Wait, where was I? Ah, yes. To answer the...

*Steal a Harpy.* *Fly back to NERV HQ and crush Gendo.* *Cut off the hand Gendo fused with the Adam embryo.* *Put hand-embryo on a rocket and launch it on a collision course with the nearest black hole.* Problem solved, series over. Speaking as a dedicated proponent for any type of Gendo-dismemberm...