Rez ([info]diamondmagus) wrote,
@ 2007-05-03 16:25:00
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Current music:Daft Punk - Crescendolls

I think its significant that the song I most associate with Neon Genesis Evangelion is Nine Inch Nails' "Closer".


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[info]gamerchick
2007-05-03 10:11 pm UTC (link)
I think that I most associate Evangelion with WHATEVER IN THE WORLD SUCKS THE MOST GIGANTIC ASS.

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[info]diamondmagus
2007-05-03 11:32 pm UTC (link)
ROFL.

Tell us how you really feel. :)

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[info]tempter
2007-05-04 02:59 am UTC (link)
I don't understand how you can associate country music with Evangelion. :)

Seriously, though, why the hate? It wasn't that bad.

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[info]gamerchick
2007-05-05 03:18 am UTC (link)
1) Drips with religious symbolism that amounts to nothing at all and thus comes off as pretentious more so than anything.
2) Every single main character is so annoying as to be almost completely unsympathetic.
3) Those few characters who are not entirely annoying (Kaji, Misato, and to a lesser extent Asuka) are killed off with extreme prejudice in such a way as to make their lives, deaths, and goals completely meaningless in the end.
4) Animation style is horrendous. Corners were obviously cut everywhere. Was there a single scene in which Gendo Ikari appeared in which he didn't have a coffee mug covering his face so the animators wouldn't actually have to, you know, animate?
5) That episode where Shinji is deciding whether to kill his secret gay lover (Kaworu Nagisa, I think?) and the camera FUCKING STAYS ON THE SAME FRAME. FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES. I cannot even describe to you how BORING that is.
6) Moreover, the original ending sucked. Then they did movies and made a new ending. Shockingly, the new ending sucked worse. I actually threw my shoes at the TV after End Of Evangelion.

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[info]tempter
2007-05-06 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Sounds like a waste of a good shoe. :)

Okay, I'll buy your reasoning. It's been about a decade since I watched it. I don't remember #4 being a big issue for me; I'm willing to accept sub-par animation if there's solid storyline and characters. But you're right, I'm pretty sure Eva had THE most annoying lineup of characters of any anime I can think of. You're not really supposed to root for the bad guys, but it was sort of impossible to NOT hope they'd kill Shinji.

Regarding the religious symoblism... the whole 'pretentious' aspect isn't unique to Eva, and you're right, it's really obnoxious. I've been watching Lain lately -- very slowly, one episode at a time. I can't stand it. I was just complaining to someone about it earlier today: a lot of people I've talked to seem to think Lain is amazingly deep and intellectual, but I can only conclude that they've mistaken "poor scene transition and cryptic, mangled plotlines" for some kind of artistry. But yes, trying to make any kind of biblical allusion that actually amounts to nothing more than cool-name-stealing is a pretty good sign of grade-A crap.

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