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The most unrealistic thing in Eva is that the UN is a powerful institution with almost unlimited funding.
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ATP_Power posted:The most unrealistic thing in Eva is that the UN is a powerful institution with almost unlimited funding. It probably absorbed/got absorbed by NATO in some capacity and is mostly backed by those countries. IIRC, Russia isn't mentioned as much as China, Germany and the US.
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Jun 26, 2019 23:28
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ATP_Power posted:The most unrealistic thing in Eva is that the UN is a powerful institution with almost unlimited funding. if this was realistic they would have to be making a profit off the evas to justify saving the world
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Jun 26, 2019 23:45
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Beefstew posted:The elevator scene is unironically amazing. I forgot how long it actually was and thought my stream had frozen for a second
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Jun 27, 2019 00:15
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Found this thread in the tweet linked earlier that seems to provide some context for the translation:quote:Here's the thing... It could be either/or in the context of Japanese terror. EDIT: Some other halfway relevant tweets: https://twitter.com/nezumi_ningen/status/1144026280494415877 Arkhams Razor fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Jun 27, 2019 00:20
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All this hate for the original DVD release and that's what I'm still rocking.    I also have the OG EoE release, but I let my Death and Rebirth go ages ago as I watched it once and found it pointless. Are these worth a drat thing? I sorta imagine yes to someone. Would also agree I found the new script janky, the VA's largely fine, but seemingly without the character of the original. The Notorious ZSB fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Jun 27, 2019 00:33
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bowmore posted:yep
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Jun 27, 2019 00:34
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The Jet Alone episode was all about NERV sabotaging the traditional MIC in Japan. When you're harnessing the powers of god, and backed by the literal Illuminati you don't have time for that BS.
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Jun 27, 2019 00:39
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Eva's are the F-35 of the setting
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Jun 27, 2019 01:14
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Irony Be My Shield posted:They do complain about not having funding a few times early on. I assume they secure it through dirty tricks and politicking like the sabotage in episode 7. Skypie posted:I forgot how long it actually was and thought my stream had frozen for a second
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Jun 27, 2019 01:27
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You can clearly see the animation cel shaking a bit, you amateurs
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Jun 27, 2019 01:43
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Negrostrike posted:You can clearly see the animation cel shaking a bit, you amateurs I only watch evangelion on CRT monitors so I can't tell the difference between that and the screen just wiggling.
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Jun 27, 2019 01:48
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Finally started my rewatch and I already have questions What do you guys make of Shinji seeing Rei in Tokyo-3 at the very beginning when it's not possible that she's actually there? Maybe some sort of spirit of Yui or Lillith "watching" over Shinji? I really don't recall any other times "ghosts" appear in the physical world but again, haven't seen this in years e: I think it's the Kaowru death, because I recall the elevator is just short of a full minute where I think the death makes it there Expect My Mom fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Jun 27, 2019 01:52
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That's a good trivia question: Which is longer, the elevator pause, or the squeeze toy pause?
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Jun 27, 2019 01:54
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Expect My Mom posted:Finally started my rewatch and I already have questions Honestly? Just artistic foreshadowing. I don't think there is a reason Rei is in that scene. I think Hideki Anno just thought it added a sense of foreboding, foreshadowed someone new, and gave the scene a more surreal experience that added to the viewer's disorientation.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:20
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Rei's specter appears at the end of EoE too, so at the very least it's purposeful enough to bookend the entire series.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:23
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I remember seeing the leftist thing and going “oh yeah makes sense that the world outside would have devolved into a fascist hellscape with small pockets of resistance at that point”.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:33
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The fate of our entire civilization depends on the stability and job performance of this emotionally fragile child. Let's overburden him with stressful work, repeatedly berate him for his failures and never show honest appreciation for any of his contributions. Wait, why is he so sullen and underpreforming? drat, the whole show's about burnout isn't it?
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Jun 27, 2019 02:37
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I forgot that Misato gives Shinji and Asuka poo poo for their test scores right after she makes them both take a week off school to practice dancing.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:41
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Anno added that bit with Rei so that animes after Eva would know to make their mysterious girls show up then vanish during their Ep 1. Honestly that one bit is one of the few instances of anything happening in-series that doesn't have a satisfying diegetic answer imo. If I had to give one, I'd begrudgingly say it is a hint that the anime canon is just one of many loops, which makes more sense now that Rebuild is a thing and Anno himself says it's a story about repetition. quote:Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different. But honestly 25 years ago that interpretation made a lot less sense so I don't really like it.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:42
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Arkhams Razor posted:good tweets I fell down a bit of a research hole after seeing this line and yeah, it makes a kind of sense That being said, there is also the question of what qualifies as leftist in Japan, in the early 90s VS the English speaking world in 2019, so I'm not exactly CONVINCED the line is SUPER GOOD choice. The historical context makes the picture a bit more clear, but someone shouldn't need to read these tweets in order to digest a jotted off bit of background noise. Then of course there's also the question of whether or not the news is trustworthy considering it's all probably information controlled to hell and back by Nerv and Seele so.. Expect My Mom posted:Finally started my rewatch and I already have questions I don't know how relevant it is, and people's feelings on the movies may vary, but BOY it has a different context when it happens again in Rebuild
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Jun 27, 2019 02:45
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The Notorious ZSB posted:All this hate for the original DVD release and that's what I'm still rocking. I am hella jealous of you. HELLA. I used to have this box set, but about a decade ago I let a buddy at Gamestop (where I was working at the time) borrow it. Both of us ended up getting let go, and despite me constantly calling him to try and meet up to get it back, he would never meet up to return it to me. 
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Jun 27, 2019 02:51
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She magically teleports herself into the descent to Terminal Dogma while Kaworu is going there, and is accompanied by a massive AT field. I'm gonna go out on a crazy limb here and say that it's not actually Rei, it's some kind of manifestation of Lilith.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:51
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You guys got poo poo friends. Like, all of y'all keep talking about some fucker you lent your poo poo to stole it from you. Closest that ever happened to me was my friend from college lent my their Wakfu bluray and I watched a bit here and there, but never finished it. I kept offering to give it back, but he didn't have a bluray player anyway so told me to keep it. Clearly, he wanted me to finish it, but I never had the interest. And, when moved back upstate, I gave it back to him.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:54
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Ranzear posted:That's a good trivia question: The squeeze toy one, by a few seconds, if I recall.
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Jun 27, 2019 03:00
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Rei's specter appears at the end of EoE too, so at the very least it's purposeful enough to bookend the entire series. OnimaruXLR posted:I don't know how relevant it is, and people's feelings on the movies may vary, but BOY it has a different context when it happens again in Rebuild It's def the more sensible thing to point to production reasons for why something is there, but I like the brain gymnastics of trying to work out why something that probably was just foreshadowing with no payoff thought off yet would happen anyway
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Jun 27, 2019 03:08
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Hmm I wonder. *looks at an eva wiki* "The room with the Rei's in it references Quantum Mechanics, specifically Top Bottom and Strangeness of Quarks." o k
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Jun 27, 2019 03:13
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SHISHKABOB posted:She magically teleports herself into the descent to Terminal Dogma while Kaworu is going there, and is accompanied by a massive AT field. I'm gonna go out on a crazy limb here and say that it's not actually Rei, it's some kind of manifestation of Lilith. gonna go one further and say they're one and the same there's only one Rei, and in the final sense she is Lilith. there's only one soul between all of them. Rei's dummy plug works with any Eva unit because she's basically child and mother all in one. the tragedy of Rei's arc is they take a sweet if awkward girl and basically shatter her personality (and the connections she defines herself by) until all that's left is a few fragments half-covering an elder god who then still lets herself be killed for humanity's sake
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Jun 27, 2019 03:33
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The Notorious ZSB posted:All this hate for the original DVD release and that's what I'm still rocking. except mine looks like this 
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Jun 27, 2019 03:51
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Vandar posted:I am hella jealous of you. HELLA.
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Jun 27, 2019 03:54
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Since Rei is associated with Anno's obsession with quantum physics, the "bookend" Reis that conveniently pop in and out of existence may be references to virtual particles. e: I've also read interpretations that Rei's ghastly appearances may suggest that the entire show is Shinji experiencing Instrumentality, not just episodes 25 & 26. This might also explain Shinji's obsession with tracks 25 & 26 on his SDAT player. Console Role Player fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Jun 27, 2019 03:54
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The Notorious ZSB posted:All this hate for the original DVD release and that's what I'm still rocking. woo, Perfect Collection buddies  
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Jun 27, 2019 04:05
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Covok posted:You guys got poo poo friends. Like, all of y'all keep talking about some fucker you lent your poo poo to stole it from you. Closest that ever happened to me was my friend from college lent my their Wakfu bluray and I watched a bit here and there, but never finished it. I kept offering to give it back, but he didn't have a bluray player anyway so told me to keep it. Clearly, he wanted me to finish it, but I never had the interest. And, when moved back upstate, I gave it back to him. lmao for loving real. Jesus
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Jun 27, 2019 04:05
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:gonna go one further and say they're one and the same Yeah I think you're right. That's why she "talks to herself" in that one episode (is it the recap episode?).
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Jun 27, 2019 04:11
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SHISHKABOB posted:Yeah I think you're right. That's why she "talks to herself" in that one episode (is it the recap episode?). Is that the "Heavy are the mountains" poetry episode, or the Arael double helix angel episode?
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Jun 27, 2019 04:30
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SHISHKABOB posted:Yeah I think you're right. That's why she "talks to herself" in that one episode (is it the recap episode?). It's been a while but I know Rei muses about having an "other self" after one of the synchronization tests. Also, she has the same memories after the fight with Zeruel, but simply no longer feels any emotional connection to them.
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Jun 27, 2019 04:31
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Zeruel posted:Is that the "Heavy are the mountains" poetry episode, or the Arael double helix angel episode? I think in the double helix angel one where it "merges" with her, she "communicates" with the Angel but it is represented as a copy/image of herself.
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Jun 27, 2019 04:34
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I'm one of the inconsiderate assholes who never returned something. In high school my (then) friend loaned me a first edition print of I Robot that belonged to his dad. That was in 2004. I held on to it and eventually never saw that friend again after college in 2008 or so. But he's also a staunch white republican who used to complain about "welfare queens" and liberals, and used his first opportunity to vote to vote against a gay marriage law. He boasted about how his dad would be proud of him. I don't feel bad
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Jun 27, 2019 05:32
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Now yall got me wondering if my Eva box set is still on the bookshelf in my old room at my mom's house or if it was one of the things I sold at a garage sale years ago.
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SHISHKABOB posted:I think in the double helix angel one where it "merges" with her, she "communicates" with the Angel but it is represented as a copy/image of herself. Loneliness 
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