Mr. Tines wrote:LOLWUT?
In both its timing (2009)
I admittedly can't even find the announcement of "New Evas, New pilot, New ending" anymore, so you have me at disadvantage, but I'm still not convinced.
Rebuild 2.0 was originally slated to be released sometime in the summer of 2008, but instead came out one full year later. If the announcement was also made in 2009, doesn't that mean
it is then the readjusted plan?
Khara failed to keep to a deadline, true, but why would they then opt out of keeping the final two films shorter? If anything, I'd think that be an incentive to keep the work load low and easy to get through, so they can finally put the whole thing out there.
Mr. Tines wrote:and content (new pilot, new Evas, the whole nine yards), Rebuild 2.0 rendered the original mission statement from the very inception of the project a quaint historical document,
I don't know, we still have other new Evas to look forward to, possibly another new pilot to go along with them if Khara and Hideaki Anno are feeling especially coy, and the new ending is still an open question other than that some sort of heavy introspection is bound to occur.
Mr. Tines wrote:one which was demonstrably overtaken by later reality. As the sole source of the 2 and two half movies notion, it no longer has any credibility.
And am I missing something? Did another "document" replace it as the default plan in the interim?
Is there any other evidence besides Khara being tardy, and 2.0's role believed to have been changed?
Warren Peace wrote:Dividing EOE into two parts was a gimmick designed to fit the film into the original series.
And there are plenty of gimmicks and gratuities in
Rebuild meant to evoke the original series.
Warren Peace wrote:Since there are no "episodes" now, why on earth would Anno do that again? If there are only three films, there are three films.
And then we are clearly over the halfway point, and the origin of this discussion is rendered moot.
Warren Peace wrote:Why stick credits in the middle and make it artificially four?
Why'd they do the same for
Death & Rebirth when they premiered together?
Warren Peace wrote:All of that doesn't necessarily add up to a successful Third Impact (or have anything to do with it, even). I'm sure there characters who want to go through with Instrumentality,
It's not just "there are", it's the
majority of the cast who have the resources and the power to pull it off. When Gendo and Fuyutsuki were discussing their plans during EVA-01's "ascension" they weren't talking as if that
right there was the end, but that it only added to their plans to ensure the end, as they wanted it, would come. From the way they talked, it wouldn't surprise me if they predicted EVA-06 would come off the moon as it did.
Warren Peace wrote:...but 2.22's ending makes me think Anno has other plans.
He has plans to change the ending, I seriously doubt he has plans to avoid the pulpit from which he preaches.
Warren Peace wrote:Why not save the apocalyptic imagery for when it actually happens? This is Anno having his cake and eating it too, I think -- he gives us a mini-apocalypse to make up for the one that
doesn't happen later.
Except to get the
two Liliths in the plot resolved, there
has to be more "apocalyptic imagery". Those things will not go gently into that good night, neither SEELE or NERVE will let it, and they both have one.
Not mention, there's still Nebuchadnezzar's key. It's function is
specifically the "key to human instrumentality"! Why give it all that build up, and not use it? If the intention was to only act as a feint and not go through with it, why not just keep it as Adam and do away with the intrigue?
Warren Peace wrote:In any event, he destroyed the world last time. Why not save it this time?
Who says they won't? Stop just short of 3I, a pre-instrumentality introspection might suffice, or lessen the damage caused by 3I through keeping it contained within the Geofront or just pull more technobabble out of their asses and "science" the plot into resetting itself.
If they can ensure that EVA-02 keeps an arm to raise Shinji out of a bunker, then they can also manipulate this so that 3I occurs, and still delivers a less mean-spirited ending than EoE. If that
is what they're aiming for, anyway.