FreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:And I like how the level of reading accomplished by NME haters only amounts to fanfics
1. I don't hate Rebuild.
2. I haven't even read a fan fic in 4 years.
And the things
I'm referencing, the state of the Evas, the inclusion of a new pilot, the increased involvement of the U.N., are things rather organic to
Evangelion itself.
For things like the "Child from the future" angle, "OMG,
Sailor Moon", yes,
that has happened before, it’s trope you can trace, and I meant it in jest.
But even to the former I’m not saying Khara couldn't have come to these changes on their own, only that I'm being surprised time and again of how I look at just small group of fics I read 4 or more years ago, and suddenly see their details becoming canon.
What do I think this really means? That people who took an honest look at the story, as Hideaki Anno did, would see there's only so much you can change to the premise before you wreck the narrative, and instead opted for changes that otherwise
could of happened anyway.
E.g. want to include a new pilot? Alright, then they're likely going to need a new Eva, but how can you do that if these things are so hard to produce, and it's been stated some Evas were scrapped to make the MP series?
By making a hodge-podge one of spare parts. It's state will likely lead to it being destroyed, and the “new” pilot will end up taking someone else's Eva along the way.
Rebuild went through this line of thinking, and as fate would have it,
so did EVA-R, because the writers of both put careful thought into the conditions of a world that already existed.
They aren't so much creating, as re-arranging what is already there, and some of the best fan fics, the ones I tend to remember, are those which did just that.
Sephizim wrote:Nothing they could do at this point would upset me. Seriously.
Ditto.
What I wanted, in principle, for Rebuild to be was a work that could truly compliment NGE, it would take the original characters, give them their "victory" over whatever plot-convenient foe, then go onto show that, even though that happened, they're
still suffering.
Shinji is
still absorbed in his own world, unwilling to trust other, Asuka is
still hurting from being alone, and unwilling to put herself in a truly vulnerable state to fix that, and Rei, if she's still alive, is left with little impulse to actually
live life.
Without the intervention that Instrumentality provided, these characters would still suffer, thus showing what happened in NGE and EoE was justified, that merely just
giving them their day in the sun, where Shinji went hidden baddass at
just the right moment, is not enough.
However, we don't have the original cast, so it's clear that isn't happening.
I suppose Hideaki Anno
could be taking this one step further saying "
Okay, they win, and the characters are somewhat better adjusted, and even then, they're still suffering! Get it yet?!?"
However, that seems a little too subtle, even for him.
Regardless, I' am invested in how Rebuild turns out, it's still
Evangelion, and if say, a happy ending is planned for these characters, I wouldn't mind seeing it, and if it's just the same as NGE from a newish angle, that'd be fine too.
I couldn't do that. It would take my enjoyment out of seeing the movie. After all, simply because I wouldn't write or direct a scene a certain way doesn't necessarily mean it's "bad". It just means that I would have done it differently, and really wouldn't only serve to highlight the differences between my writing styles and Anno's writing styles. It's like asking what Raiders of the Lost Ark would be like if Richard Donner had directed it instead. I don't know if it would be worse or better than Spielberg's work in the film, but it would most certainly be different.
