With regards to the actual timeline fuckery, I always go with what makes sense over what’s stated in the script. Turns out a lot of the time writers don’t have the timeline of events carefully plotted down to the day and just make shit up. That's my feeling too. Eva fans are always looking for a wa...

In my opinion, the voice acting in the VSI dub is more nuanced and layered than the over-the-top, stereotypical-sounding ADV dub. It captures more of the little quirks and subtleties of the characters, especially Shinji and Asuka, whose ADV voice actors made them sound like stock characters out of ...

I posted in this thread already, but now that I've had time to ruminate on the good and bad parts of both dubs, I should try to summarize here. ADV Dub: The acting's pretty bad at first, and it stays bad for the extras and side characters, but the main actors get pretty good as they ease into their ...

I watched the first 3 episodes of Invincible, and they were pretty decent, but MY GOD the scenes with teenagers were cringey as hell. They tried way too hard to "update" the dialogue by overloading the script with modern Zoomer slang, and the show's excuse for teenage drama is basically &q...

I don’t know, dude. Seems like you’re trying to do gymnastics to deny that Misato would give the order to kill Shinji, even though the line makes it clear that she gave the order. “If this happened” and “this very situation” are basically synonyms, and Midori wouldn’t say “Didn’t we” if she wasn’t r...

That’s also how I feel. I may have some disagreements towards the participants in this thread, but I mean no ill will to anyone, and I’m sorry if this thread got a little out of hand.

There are secular belief systems that act like de facto religions, taking that place in the lives of people who don't ascribe everything to some bearded sky father figure. Anyone who describes themselves as male and then starts using the term "male gaze" with a straight face has been infl...

Some religious people find it sexually arousing “spiritually fulfilling” to stamp out portrayals of sexuality in media. You’re completely misrepresenting my argument, dude. 1. I already told you guys, I’m agnostic. I have no spiritual stake in not liking fanservice. I just don’t like it. 2. The who...

"Gratuitous" is a personal judgement; it would appear that to the director they are not always gratuitous. Isn't a pointless shot of a female character's boobs or butt, with zero relevance to the story going on, by definition gratuitous? Gratuitous doesn't mean bad, but it does mean irrel...

That's not basic logic at all, it's a personal assumption that a) certain shots of characters imply an unhealthy obsession, b) that everyone who likes it must be a perverted straight man, c) that women don't want to see themselves sexualized, d) that fanservice is porn, and e) that entire demograph...

It’s only “clear what demographic is being catered to” if we make the assumption that because WE like something, clearly the only other people who must like it are like us. One viewer being titillated or put off by something does not preclude other viewers both similar and different from experienci...

It's certainly interesting that this series attracted women in unconventionally high numbers, but it's not really a strong argument for or against anything. I can't claim to concretely know how every woman feels about sexually objectifying media, but I think it's pretty clear what demographic is be...

I'm looking into it a bit more, and it seems like hearing wouldn't be a problem: the ear may not work, but your head can still conduct vibrations pretty well. However, what would be a problem is speaking. Just like the ears, the vocal cords are designed to work in air. Underwater, your vocal cords w...

FreakyFilmFan4ever#921500 wrote:“Knowing what women like” is a red herring anyway. All you really need to learn is what your significant other likes and you’ll be good.

That's not what I meant!

Liquid carries sound better than air; for breathable liquids like LCL, I see little reason why you shouldn't be able to also speak in it Liquid may carry sound better, but it’s not really possible to hear in it: the complicated mechanism that allows us to hear sound only works in air. So if the pil...

But is that thematic or an actual ritual requirement? Could've been just a suicide mission. (Hence the crashed heli in Terminal Dogma) Yeah, you'd think that "a sacrifice is required to stop an impact" would mean that Kaji would be strapped to an ancient Mayan sacrifice table and have his...

Well, I wouldn’t say that I’m assuming what women like. I’ve acquainted myself with feminist media criticism long enough to know what their main points are. And they definitely don’t seem comfortable with overbearing female sexualization. I know that the feminist movement doesn’t represent all women...

This just depends on what "feel-good fanservice" means in this context. I already talked in this thread about the importance of asking who 's being catered to, who's being made to "feel good". A lot of people say "the audience" when they mean "perpetually horny st...

I mean, of course it’s a different continuity. When I said “improved version of the original series,” I meant what you said previously, that the Rebuild series was intended to fix issues of the original and change things that didn’t work the first time around. You made similar statements previously...

However, I disagree with your idea that Rebuild was intended to be an improved version of the original series. Eh? I don't know where you got the idea I said anything like that, because I don't agree with it. Rebuild is a whole different continuity and has been so from the start. I mean, of course ...