[LMB] N. G. Evangelion (was Re: Why LMB just doesn't count, but Asaro does

[Patricia A. Swan]

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:26:17 -0400, "Paula Lieberman" <paal at gis.net>
said about Neon Genesis Evangelion:

> > Does that show *ever* settle down and
> > really make sense?
> 
> No.
> 
> >I just kept sitting there blinking in confusion {snip}
> > and that is terribly unusual for me as a reader/writer.
> 
> It's the product of a non-western culture which grabs western trappings
> for 
> some things in weird places and does peculair things to them...

Thanks, Paula (and the good Doctor off-list)

I usually don't have too much trouble with the non-Western part, but the
episodes I managed to see were so terribly non-linear in places, and the
last one I attempted had multiple flash-backs, flash-forwards, and I'd
swear flash-sideways, and I just couldn't pull any kind of working
continuity together.  And I'm a writer who was able to pull enough of a
working continuity together on "MacGyver" to be able to write and submit
a story to the production company so I'm not exactly an amateur at
mucking about with continuity-challenged shows, but NGE completely
defeated me.

Thanks again,

Pat in North Carolina