Postby Kendrix » Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:31 am
I don't think he'd be too pissed about the spearing thing, after all, he had already acconplished his goal (grab Rei), the world destruction thing was a side-effect he wasn't even aware of, so no actual plans of his got twarted by that.
I don't think he'll ever know the world was in danger unless someone tells him. He may be glad that nothing happened, he may go emo with guilt, he may even get all snap back at the person telling him how a world without [s:2p2wp8zg]Michiru[/s:2p2wp8zg] Rei isn't worth protecting (If he tells that to Gendo, the latter will probably be shocked into silence, anyone else will probably give him a mayor scolding him for being childish, reckless and/or not thinking things through) but his reaction certainly won't be "Geez, that stupid planet survived!"
@Jorno:
Yeah.
When I first saw the tube I thought " maybe Rei III activating", my first impression was that her eyes looked blank, but, taking a closer look, she has an exression there...
Also, they have us in the fortunate situation of knowing that Rei is past her expiration date, so to speak. Her fate is completely up in the air, they can shock/surprise us however they want, it's not like we have any old canon content she still "has to be in". That is, they can make the audience genuinely worried.
No way they'd lose that advabtage by hinting at her fate in a trailer, not after most of Qs campain has deliberately told us nothing at all.
(The "swiftly takes a dark turn" may indicate a mayor gamechanging plot twist that would be spoiled by anything more indicative)
All we got is a piano, and shots of Asuka, Shinji, Rei, Mari and Kaworu doing the most typical Asuka, Shinji, Rei, Mari- or Kaworu-y things, respectively.
Also, Shinji IS blushing, whatever that means, they're just using a more realistic effect than luminiscent face lines.
I mean, look at our predictions for 2.0 and how wrong they were, because of the same flaws some of our current Q predictions have. For example, we did...
a) ...assume that it would mostly Asuka's movie. In our classic-NGE-filled heads, she's a mayor main character, but in Rebuild, she's as ndew as Mari, and the movies, as a tetralogy, need consistent focus and storytelling. It's like expecting the harry potter books to suddenly put all their focus on, say, Neville, and put Harry & co out of focus because "We've already seen so much of damn Harry, Ron and Hermione!"
Regardless so their relationships to each other, Rei, Shinji and Gendo are the main characters, so they will keep recieving wide-arching and won't suddenly drop out of the equation because it would be a cool what-if scenario.
Mari, Kaworu, Asuka and the adults will all get their nice little subplots, especially Kaworu since his cameos were setting him up for a larger role, he may even get main character status, but Shinji, Rei and Gendo will presumaly still be recognizeable as the protagonists and Anno won't follow crazy what ifs for their own sake. He's not writing a fanfiction. So something like Shinji spending the movie tangified or Rei becoming a glorified computer voice won't happen.
b) expect the EVA 04 deal to get a mayor role - What if EVa 04 this, EVA 04 this?... Again, focussing on things that were only plot devices/handwave to begin with. So many threads on soul mechanics, when Anno probably hardly gave them any thought beyond "I want this character to have an identity chrisis of sorts" or "I want that sort of connection there".
The plot devices are going to stay plot devices - they exist to make the plot possible, not the other way around. When we look at 2.0, the new developements were mostly tied to the characters, BG mechanics things were alteres, but no more than simply switching some words in the cryptic conversations for others. What surprised us was Asuka's journey taking a wjole different road, Gendo actually giving his son some advice, and when Kaji elaborated on a "setting thing" like the states of the ecosystem, it was done to caracterize him as a "tragedy survivor" and him trying to teach Shinji a lesson.
Expecting Qs twists/alterations to be like that is not unreasonable.
c) conversely, we were given many things we *didn't* expect.
Like, in years and years of writing fanfic, this fandom hasn't produced any story where Rei tries to get the Ikaris back together. In hindsight, it seems so obvious that she would do that - but the possibility never occurred to anyone.
Q may as well have such surprisingly plausible developemernts that we didn't see comming.
I wanted to try harvesting the rice
I wanted to hold Tsubame more
I wanted to stay together forever with the boy I like