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

[Raye Johnsen]

--- Elizabeth McCoy <arcangel at io.com> wrote:

> At 7:29 PM -0700 4/9/07, Raye Johnsen wrote:
> >when Gainax made
> >the movie 'End of Evangelion', they advertised it
> as
> >'What was happening *outside* Shinji's head during
> >episodes 25 and 26'.
> 
> Oh-hooooooo. I should watch the movie, then.

Probably.  However, BE WARNED.  The director was Not
Pleased that the fans Didn't Get that the show was
really all about How Screwed-Up Ikari Shinji Really
Is, and so, while 'End of EVA' starts out with the SF
elements, it takes a sharp right turn into the
metaphysical about halfway through.  If you were
mainly watching for the giant robots with extension
cords, you will not only be sorely disappointed, you
will walk away with a very sour taste in your mouth.

To put it simply and without too many spoilers: when
the series said, "Hey, the robots aren't *really*
'robots'..." *it wasn't lying*.

The Japanese actress who played Asuka has gone on
record that she was told that, in the final scene, she
could say whatever she felt Asuka would say, after
everything.  Asuka's face was hidden, so she had no
lip movements to synchronise with, and it was the
final line of the whole shebang.

She chose to say, "I feel sick."  A *LOT* of fans
agree with her.

> Then all the weird
> stuff was
> going on, and secrets, and then... it just all got
> left hanging
> with some kind of psychological realization at the
> very end,
> and while that's nice and all, I'd have liked some
> actual
> _plot resolution_ and confirmation if ____ was
> really a clone
> of ____ and if so, did ____ share memories with ____
> and ____??

You will get answers.  Resolution, on the other hand,
is something completely different.  Some people say
the story is resolved.  Others that it is not.  Like
so much else in EVA, it's subject to the viewer.

Raye

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"It 'went away'?  'I dwell in darkness without you'
and it WENT AWAY?"
  -- Sorcha, 'Willow'


       
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