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Thoughts on The End of Evangelion?
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This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Vincent Grayson
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End of Evangelion might be one of my most-watched movies ever. There was a period of time in my late teens when I was missing a lot of school, and I watched the damn thing like, once a day to pass the time.
John Kowalski
Banned
I'll give this a shot.
1. Because the souls of their mothers are in their EVAs, which facilitates synchronization. Sometimes that doesn't work very well, like 01 not activating with Rei inside it.
2. Everyone is fucked up in the show, that's by design.
3. The spear was removed from the second Egg that was in Antarctica (where Adam was). They excavated the place and found the spear in it. Eventually they brought back the spear to experiment with it and Adam, but shit went fubar. Apparently the spear made Adam revert to an embryonic stage. They were lucky.
4. When the Eggs first hit earth. Supposedly their arrival began the development of life (probably a reference to 2001), but imo that's just pseudo canon.
5. Everyone's alive, Shinji and Asuka just chose to leave the instrumentality. He was probably overwhelmed by his hatred of her in that moment, and snapped.
6. They come from nowhere. That's by design, you never know where they come from. They are just trying to reach Adam, to do the same Gendo wants. To "ascend", as it were.
7. He is like Rei, a human body and the soul of Adam. He loves Shinji very much. You think they just slept that night? Nah man. Other angels had tried to communicate with humans too, like the one which broke Asuka's mind and the one that spoke to Rei in her mind. Kaworu just happened to be really attractive, it made things easier.
8. They desired to create the instrumentality in their design, to recreate the human species as what they thought it should be. I think it's ok to assume that the instrumentality happens as its creator wishes, and that different results would happen if someone other than Shinji were inside 01.
9. He wanted to see Yui again. And to be free of pain and loneliness.
10. She didn't. Bruv. Don't even suggest that.
11. NERV is one hundred years ahead of everyone else in technology.
2. Everyone is fucked up in the show, that's by design.
3. The spear was removed from the second Egg that was in Antarctica (where Adam was). They excavated the place and found the spear in it. Eventually they brought back the spear to experiment with it and Adam, but shit went fubar. Apparently the spear made Adam revert to an embryonic stage. They were lucky.
4. When the Eggs first hit earth. Supposedly their arrival began the development of life (probably a reference to 2001), but imo that's just pseudo canon.
5. Everyone's alive, Shinji and Asuka just chose to leave the instrumentality. He was probably overwhelmed by his hatred of her in that moment, and snapped.
6. They come from nowhere. That's by design, you never know where they come from. They are just trying to reach Adam, to do the same Gendo wants. To "ascend", as it were.
7. He is like Rei, a human body and the soul of Adam. He loves Shinji very much. You think they just slept that night? Nah man. Other angels had tried to communicate with humans too, like the one which broke Asuka's mind and the one that spoke to Rei in her mind. Kaworu just happened to be really attractive, it made things easier.
8. They desired to create the instrumentality in their design, to recreate the human species as what they thought it should be. I think it's ok to assume that the instrumentality happens as its creator wishes, and that different results would happen if someone other than Shinji were inside 01.
9. He wanted to see Yui again. And to be free of pain and loneliness.
10. She didn't. Bruv. Don't even suggest that.
11. NERV is one hundred years ahead of everyone else in technology.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
Batshit crazy.
Blu-ray is coming out this August in Japan bundled with the series, no subtitles however, also around $300
I'm probably going to jump on this, despite lack of subtitles, given that: Khara is picky about which studios do what with EVA (see 3.33 BD release), the Manga DVD transfer for EoE is literally the same as the Laserdisc and it's non-anamorphic and if it is brought to America I guarantee the series will be separated from the movies with little regard how nice the Japanese sets will (inevitably) look.
pancakesandsex
Member
I always felt like the endings to the tv series and the movie were the exact same but told from differing perspectives. The tv series existing solely inside the mind of shinji, as he decides upon whether or not existing in a sea of LCL is what he wants, the movie showing you the events from an outside perspective as well. You can even see some of the same "plot points" in the quick still shots in 25-26.
I also have always interpreted the final scene with Asuka as "everyone needs to individually make the choice to emerge from the LCL", and the first 2 people to do it were Shinji and Asuka, rather than Shinji straight up making that decision for everyone, but we only see the "process" from Shinji's perspective.
I also have always interpreted the final scene with Asuka as "everyone needs to individually make the choice to emerge from the LCL", and the first 2 people to do it were Shinji and Asuka, rather than Shinji straight up making that decision for everyone, but we only see the "process" from Shinji's perspective.
pancakesandsex
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The reason it's taken so long to come out is because Khara has been securing the rights for everything from the quagmire that held them. If this has simplified the licensing situation and everything can be obtained from one place now (rather than gainax and the tv members of the committee for the tv show, and gainax and the different members of the movie committee for the films) it should actually be easier to get the rights and make one big set.
Eva 3.33 issues are unrelated to licensing. I believe ANN has reported on everything that's public with that. But it's not licensing.
Manga's DVD was garbage because it was a buggy mess that barely worked in most players at the time, had serious image quality issues, and if I recall correctly, it had come out just before or just after the renewal set in Japan which had an anamorphic print.
ohh, maybe i should wait then...
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
hated it
which is why I'll never put that series not even on my top 10 animes of all time.
which is why I'll never put that series not even on my top 10 animes of all time.
pancakesandsex
Member
No part of me doubts it will be released here, but it might take a little while longer to see it. Needless to say, I'm jumping on that train as soon as I get wind. It's my favorite.
pancakesandsex
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Lol.
Lights and Waves
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Thanks to the excitement in this thread, I've started watching the rebuild of eva movie series. I saw the first movie last night, it was pretty good. The animation was great. Watching movie 2 tonight.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Yup, and the Asuka fight is still to this day my favorite animated fight of all time.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
2.22 is so good & after that? Anno done goofed.
John Kowalski
Banned
Remember, FAR isn't canon.
Ganzlinger
Member
It's something great for sure. I don't understand a lot of things, though. lol
But it is something I don't want to see constantly. Just watched once. It's kinda depressing.
But it is something I don't want to see constantly. Just watched once. It's kinda depressing.
Loved it. Absolutely blew my mind as a teenager and it still holds up today. Still got the Death and Rebirth and EoE DVDs which I assume are pretty hard to get now. I actually bought EoE from a Woolworth's store when they were still a thing so that should date it.
Would love a Blu-Ray release along with the series. It'd make the wait for the rebuilds easier. Might have to re-watch the OG series and movie again as I've not done it in years.
Definitely my favorite of all time.
Would love a Blu-Ray release along with the series. It'd make the wait for the rebuilds easier. Might have to re-watch the OG series and movie again as I've not done it in years.
Definitely my favorite of all time.
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