[EVA] The Greater Meaning

[AchtungAffen]

I highly doubt there's positively one big idea that covers everything Eva
is. Like they tried to "say something" and did. Probably they tried, but
don't think they actually held it together when they did.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:02 PM, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Svensson" <sun1jack at hotmail.com>
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> What is Evangelion about? I have my answer, but I'd like to hear everyone
> else's before I give it, so as not to stifle creativity. There must be
> something to the series that keeps us talking about it, so what is it? At
> the core, why is Evangelion important?
>
> Peter Svensson
>
> @To me Evangelion was my gateway & eye-opener to what makes anime unique to
> all other animation.  Its only a cartoon through its media & look.
> Everything else is much more.  "Lost" has the same fascination for me
> nowadays.
>
> But what makes Eva extra special still among anime is the atmosphere, the
> details, the "moments", and Shinji + Misato. Its what I feel Rebuild has
> lost most.
>
> Eva TV has periods/episodes of quiet "normalcy". Shinji's meditations, the
> radio & TV background chatter, Misato just taking him & Rei round with her,
> & chatting to Ritsuko. Then periods of intense action & danger, followed by
> quiet again, even with Asuka.  Rebuild has some, credit to Anno, but by
> neccessity its faster paced & the "everyday" moments lose out.
>
> Why Eva is important is because Shinji is an average boy, not a hero, a
> scrapper, not highly intelligent geek, a jock or magical.  Yet he's expected
> to be that by NERV - albeit through desperate hope. And by misunderstanding
> anime audiences. Shinji was not born brave, or from special parents.  But
> because he's the son of NERV's CiC he's expected to be a "NERV brat".
> EoE is more fitting to Anno's anti-heroic/unconvinced-conscript theme,
> right to the end, but denies any positive character development to Shinji at
> all, in fact makes him worse than in episode 1.
>
> Eva's victory over me, is that I grew to like Shinji - understand his
> feelings some, identify with him some & cry for him some.  Ep.26 is an
> upper. 26' is a downer.
>
> Was Evangelion influenced by Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" (Twilight of the
> Gods).  Are Shinji & Asuka the new man & woman in a "new" world, & was 3rd
> Impact "Ragnorak"?
> RJN
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