[EVA] Anime News Network review of 1.01

[Drew Lewis]

Now there's an idea.  I'd pay to see Nerv: The Early Years.

Anyway, I'm not disagreeing with the review.   I guess, if anything, I'm
being a khara apologist here, at least as far as their execution of the film
goes.  I'll cheerfully leave their motives and merits alone.



On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <once at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Drew Lewis <83drew at gmail.com>
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> >I agree, harsh but true.  I don't mind the more straightforward approach
> for
> >the most part.
> >
> >My suspicion is that the lack of subtlety others have complained about is
> >mostly due to the time compression.  The actual time difference isn't
> much,
> >but getting everything thrown at you in one shot might make things seem
> more
> >rushed.
>
>
> Well...I have to say that I mostly agree with the review. DEATH was perhaps
> a more artistically successful attempt to summarize the TV story, as it at
> least took a remix (Yamaga's own term) approach rather than
> time-compression.
>
> If these new films are truly "khara" (apparently the lower-case is
> preferred when the studio's name is written in English; it will appear this
> way on the Vol. 11 manga credits) works rather than Gainax ones, then it may
> not be Gainax that has the cojones issue, as Zac puts it. And from an
> artistic standpoint, perhaps it's more admirable that Gainax makes a GURREN
> LAGANN--even if it's not a revolutionary work as the 1995-97 EVANGELION
> was--than for khara to spend their time rebuilding a monument to a
> revolution.
>
> I'm not sure I would have made these films at all (I would have much
> preferred Anno tried something new and non-Eva related instead), but if it's
> to be an Eva story, isn't there a tremendous opportunity untaken for a story
> focussing on the early years of Gendo, Yui, Fuyutsuki, Naoko, Kyoko,
> Ritsuko, Misato, and Kaji? We only got glimpses of the events of 1999-2014
> in the original story--this is time that could be *uncompressed*. You could
> make an entire new series out of it.
>
> --C.
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