Azathoth wrote:Surely the battleship wank is all Anno, come on. Honestly if I had to pick and choose most Enokido-y parts I would point to Shinji wandering the ruined city, playing piano with Kaworu etc. since this is the most deliberately fairy-taleish and surreal Eva's surface narrative has ever gotten. It's pure Adolescence of Utena type shit and its general lack of, well, any major plot elements beyond lonely wandering and homolust absolutely scream Enokido to me.
I don't really agree. The piano playing thing and most of dialogue etc. I've taken a look at just develops on motives and ideas that were always there in ep 24. Only the star gazing thing etc. feels more "fairy taleish" but it could be straight out from Makoto Shinkai too so I don't feel too confident on saying it's very Enokido thing.
I already mentioned it in other thread but a lot about slightly surreal emptyness of 3.0, ruined city etc. actually remind me a lot of Shiki Jitsu which is exactly in this kind of moody, wandering around abandoned city mood while Satiesque piano pieces play in the background a lot.
I'm not saing Enokido couldn't or didn't contribute to these parts of script too but the Shinji/Kaworu drama is overall pretty familiar territory and not enough of a "wild card" idea to count as Enokido's solution to story development deadlock like 2.0's climax was.
Now if first 3.0 resembled the teaser trailer a lot more but Anno couldn't get it to work satisfactorily in his head for one reason or another? I can see Enokido pulling "lol timeskip" out of his proverbial ass more easily than anyone else. It's not outside Anno's trollingness either but if the "first version scrapped midway through production" idea holds any truth to it that means obviously he didn't come up with timeskip idea initially.
edit: I guess it wasn't obvious but the reason I thought of Enokido re: Wille ship and all are visuals mostly. The ship is like something out of Diebuster (in my eyes).