[EVA] Anime Boston 2009 Evangelion panels

[V V]

It would be difficult for me to do that, but I guess I'll be repeating a lot of similar stuff as I go, I"ll try to keep you posted; in all seriousness I just took an off-the-shelf webcam, plugged it into an off-the-shelf Vista laptop, and somehow managed to turn it on; i'm surprised it taped as well as it did.  

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EVA] Anime Boston 2009 Evangelion panels
To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list." <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:56 AM

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On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM, V V wrote:
> I ran three hour-long Evangelion panels at Anime Boston 2009;
>
> "The Evangelion franchise: Past, Present, and Future" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sddPXdSTy7k&feature=PlayList&p=84014DB3B7483783&index=0
>
> I gave a general overview of the original series, the TV ending/End of Eva alternate endings controversy; then the spinoff manga like Sadamoto's official manga and the new Shinji Ikari Raising Project (I also put up the Dark Horse e-mail address and told them they can send in fanart/fanletters by mailing it in to there; I hope that gets the ball rolling and helped get word out, need to kick-start everything again)  before moving on to Rebuild of Evangelion (note; this presentation was made before Rebuild 2 came out so parts are a obviously a bit inaccurate; specifically Rebuild 2 actually does a lot to dispel the "Sequel Theory", i.e. specifically explaining that the oceans *were* blue before 2nd Impact)...plus YouTube made me take the videos down when they had actual screenshots; rather, I got one of those messages that "This video is taken down due to a copyright claim by Studio Khara" (They noticed, I feel so special :) haha).......then I spend
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>  20 minutes at the end talking about the winding path that the live action Weta film adaptation has taken, and that things are shaping up once again.
>
> "Explanation of Evangelion" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iNRCLH2Jzs&feature=PlayList&p=B359C8AE092D7E5F&index=0
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> (The thing that terrified me was when I asked for a show of hands, OVER HALF the audience did not KNOW what the Directors' Cut episodes were...and at another panel at the convention, a show of hands revealed half the audience had never even WATCHED Evangelion at all.  Utterly unscientifically, this means half of anime fans haven't seen Eva at all, and half of them (thus a quarter) haven't seen the REAL Evangelion....assuming everyone who came to my panel saw the show of course)
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> "According to my charts, we used to be at Awesome, but then we dropped...I don't know about you, but *I* think we should be trying to get back up to Awesome"
>
> "Evangelion is 'that show no one understands' for 2 Reasons...."
>
> "Gainax openly said the Christian symbology was meaningless..."
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> "This is what the Classified Information Files interviews with Hideaki Anno are...Whose soul is in Eva-00? What is Metaphysical Biology?"
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> "At which point, Eva's in the theaters, God's in his Heaven, and..." "ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD!!"
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> "The Psychology and Philosophy of Evangelion" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Tz3pUFEt8&feature=PlayList&p=CF1515BA5800BAA6&index=0
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> "Evangelion is a psychological analysis of painfully flawed, thus very realistic characters, set in a post-apocalyptic backdrop which serves as a social commentary on post-World War II Japanese society as a whole, and the "Lost Decade" of Japan's 1990's Recession in particular, in which piloting Giant Robots to fight alien monsters is a simple metaphor for 'facing life's problems'..."
>
>
> I think it was pretty successful; alot of people ran up to me to ask questions after the panel or say thanks, and it seemed like a lot of them had never had this stuff explained to them before (i.e. they didn't know what the Director's Cut episodes were, and didn't know what the different versions of Death&Rebirth were or that it was really just a clip show, and that you *cannot* skip End of Eva and think you've "seen" Evangelion's real ending; they kind of both fit together and only watching one dampens it.
>
> Nonetheless, everyone in the audience seemed to have really had their interested in and comprehension of Evangelion reinvigorated.
>
> "I'm pleased to meet you and I hope you guessed my name, but what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game"
>
> -- V

Those looked interesting but I had a hard time understanding them (am
hearing-impaired), and in some of them the video quality is way too
low - I couldn't make out anything of that one with the TV, for
example. Is there any written out essay or webpage of your
presentations?

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gwern
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