Oh, leave me alone on this fan-service garbage, I can mess people and things up plenty as it is, just via my "innate wrongness." I don't need outside sources for THAT, thank you very much.
At some point MDWigs suggested that, somewhere on the commentary page, we look at the various "outside sources" and note how "canon" they are, and such.
Offhand, maybe we should ask EvaOtaku to do the specifics on the collectible cards and their info, since he seems to know a decent amount about them?
I look forward to it, being as my poor brain can't think of any explanation for the ejection chutes except maybe miniature wormhole technology or other variations on folding the fabric of space to get from one place to another unconventionally.
Actually, I thought up an idea on that...perhaps the Evas don't travel up through the geofront's open space, but the shafts are actaully located within its walls someplace. Perhaps Nerv HQ's underground (as in, below the pyramid and such) facilities, as well as the above-ground Tokyo-3, extend beyond the Geofront's rock walls, and the shafts to the surface were simply installed someplace within the rock there, which would mean that the cages would be someplce right below them...of course, this would mean that the Evas can't be deployed anywhere near the center of the city (or wherever it is that the geofront is under), but at least this could explain the presence of enclosed shafts...I'm sure someone here has specs on the area of the geofront as well as Tokyo-3,to see whether or not that would hold up...
...you need to type up a little comment to introduce this particular new law, and maybe add a phony number to your new laws or something. And Dr. Nick had a point; you really ought to try making those laws real!
The stuff you typed to introduce the faux law on the commentary page sounds fine to me, personally. As far as making the law "official," you or Dr. Nick can send it in if you want and take the credit for it, I'm really not enough of an anime aficionado to feel quite right about having my name up on such an "otaku-fied" list, heh.
Also, I have a few extra comments to add to the Ep. 1 commentary, if you want to take a look...
064: I also find it interesting that the explosion starts at the rear end of the missile, where the propulsion engine is: apparently there's nothing else explosive anyplace else in the missile, heh. "Eat high-velocity utterly empty capsule, villain!"
067: There's the ever-present hexagon, on the display screen in the back...maybe you could move some of my "hexagon" comments from later on in the episode to here, since this is the first place we see it (I think)...it's probably nothing too crucial though, since the "hexagon matrix" is a fairly common sci-fi motif, from what I've seen.
070: *in Mr. Burns voice* "Release the robotic Richard Simmons!"
084: This isn't for the commentary, but you'd earlier mentioned, Reichu, that you weren't sure what felineki meant by the "Chinese Theater" comment...you know that famous place in Hollywood where they have a bunch of hand- and footprints of various celebrities placed in the cement in front of a certain building? It's called "Someone's (I forget the exact name)Chinese Theater." Thus, by the end of the series, all the Angel footprints (for those with feet, anyways) have turned Tokyo-3 into a more grandiose version of that, heh.
103: This track, "Barefoot in the Park," in particular, always underscored the Eva soundtrack as very "retro" in its style in my view, in many places...seriously, this track belongs in the background of a 1950's sitcom or something. Of course, "Fly Me to the Moon" is an even more obvious example of this sort of thing, as is Misato's theme.
106: That being said, I wonder if any of the blissfully unaware citizens of Tokyo-3 ever wondered what the heck those giant mirrors were for...
148: Or, perhaps this is another instance of her having uncomfortable premonitions about just why Gendo would have wanted him there, as I mention for frame 207...you could probably re-arrange the wording to make 'em work...
169: Maybe it's the broadcast tower for the mega-popular
KNRV, Radio Nerv, playing the latest hits 24/7, to make sure that the populace doesn't notice all the gigantic rampaging critters wandering around!
181: And it figures that she puts on a freakin'
lab coat to make sure we never know for certain. By the way, Misato seems to be hiding the taped-together piece of paper from Ritsuko here...wonder why.
204: I wonder where the security camera is which captures Shinji's image for the background here...seeing as spies are able to sabotage Nerv later on, it would seem that such provisions are either lacking or easily compromised...also, maybe we ought to note that those same multiple screens are used much more dramatically at one point in the manga, while here they look to be more along the lines pf simple background filler.
217: Here Ritsuko's no-nonsense, ruthless side is hinted at...I can't say it's so for certain, but it seems like she using Misato's memories of her father and Second Impact (which have, more or less, controlled her life up to this point) as an emotional trump, to get her to agree with the idea of making Shinji pilot the Eva cold...I wouldn't think she'd be referring to the Eva's technical aspects, anyways, since Misato knows little about them...
238: Well, Lilith's part of the "collective 'we,'" isn't she?
249: I think he might be doing it again here: note the language, "unusable," he probably knows that that word will hurt Shinji a lot...and also makes sure to mention that Rei will "do it again," making it clear that she has
already done this, while Shinji refuses to comply even once. Then, of course, he wheels her in...
254: In all honesty, I wonder whether they were even really planning on having Rei pilot, and really only intended to use her as a "living guilt trip" to get Shinji to agree to do it...
257: Maybe you could add the word "shapely" before "black silhouette" to make the comment even more effective, heh.
258: Again, as opposed to all those other anime girls who
don't have perfect bodies?
316: Well, considering that the thing has a tendency to do stuff, often rather violent stuff, of its own initiative, and that its restraints do pretty much squadoo to actually restrain it...
329: Already mentioned this above, just figured mentioning the exact frame might be a faster reference for you if you wanted to add it...
337: You almost expect the Eva to jump up and down, feet smoking, once it gets to the surface, shouting "Owww! Hot! Hot! Ouch! Ooh! Owww!" Then, of course, it'll have to scramble to the nearest large body of water and jump in, and then sigh out a relieved "aahhhhh" as billowing steam rises from its feet.
Don't throw anything TOO heavy at me please, heh.
Originally posted on: 17-Jun-2004, 17:39 GMT
Much obliged. Odds are, if it existed at at, it would be somewhat less ambitious... It really does take a crazy person to devote so much of herself to something like this. 
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