[EVA] Gender analysis in the series, vis a vis Asuka and Misato

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:09 PM, V V <frumious99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> .............when the Lord of the Rings live-action movies were being made, there were "experts" like Tom Shippey and Karen Wynn Fonstad who had been writing "guide to LOTR" books for years, about Tolkien's works.
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> .......if/when Weta gets to make a live-action Eva project, and they ask, "hey, fans usually make their own freelance guides to the series long in advance, do you guys have any?".....are you seriously going to start telling them about ReDo?
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> What if they were to ask more basic questions, i.e. "what is Rei, what is Instrumentality" etc. etc.  And what's you've been doing all this time, is making fanfiction which is so divergent from the source material that it in no way is a reflection upon it?
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> "I'm having fun" is what the hippie-fans said for LOTR.
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> For the record....I dont' "have fun" sitting through self-serving poorly written fanfiction and waiting, on a scale of years, for *someone* to finally get some answers about this show.  I don't have "fun" waiting for Eva Commentaries or Eva Guides or Eva fanscripts that NEVER get finished.
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> I realize that people who write fanfic "have fun" doing it, but they seem to have lost the ability to guage that "do people even like the fanfic I'm writing?"
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> If I wanted to read Eva fanfiction I would have gone to fanfiction.net.
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> Instead, I came looking for, specifically, "answers about the series" and instead, people shoved fanfiction at me.
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> And I'm not the only one that thinks this way.

As far as I can tell, not a single line of this is an actual response
to me. (And some of it is ridiculous. I would give 100:1 odds that
Weta's live action Eva will never come to pass.)

Well, whatever you say, Vean.

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gwern