[EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others

[V V]

I intend to analyze and refute all of the wrong ones; sorry if that was confusing; I don't inherently think all previous analysis is wrong.  

But instead of this perpetual attitude of "every theory is correct", we're going to go through, and put each essay into one of two categories:  "good" analysis, and "this is just some guy spouting off opinions with no basis in fact"

Arguably, we should simply let the "bad" essays die off and be forgotten, but there's always the chance they'll be brought up again.

I.e. Napier's insultingly bad article will get a full refutation

****similar to how in Lord of the Rings, no one seriously thinks "pipe-weed" is pot anymore, but we've still got essays devoted to "if you hear that crazy theory that pipe-weed is pot, this is why it is wrong"

****"Good" analysis doesn't have to be stuff I personally agree with; but stuff based on "logical discourse and evidence"

we need to move back to "evidence"; a lot of this stuff was just opinion on "what Eva meant to me personally" (which was often "Rei is kind and likes me!")

Off the top of my head, I'll say this:

I think most of the early essays had no idea what they were talking about
Napier and the rest from Mechademia and Robot Dreams didn't know what they were talking about
Taliesin Jaffe, Sean McCoy, etc. definitely didn't know what they were talking about
Mari Kotani's original essay has some points of merit, but other points which believe the religious stuff meant something, most of her work was before End of Eva came out, and I'd strongly urge her to make an update

Most of these were just armchair enthusiasts who didnt' do a lot of research (again, I'm disgusted with what Napier did)

As for your comment on Mr. Horn here Aaron; yes, as opposed to the folk cited above, I pretty much think Mr. Horn is the only writer on Eva who has any idea what he's talking about.  Even Mr. Horn has admitted that he doesn't know everything, but then neither do I.  we need more of that kind of analysis based on "evidence".

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu> wrote:

From: Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others
To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list." <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:26 PM

I asked you a question first.  I see no reason to answer your questions if
you don't intend to answer anyone else's.

Do you really intend to thoroughly discredit and refute all fan essays
including your own?

Answer the question.  It's a very simple Yes/No question.  Feel free to
elaborate beyond the Yes/No.

--Aaron

> How many Eva essays have you personally written since 2005?
>
> --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others
> To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list."
> <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 1:32 PM
>
> You first.  I asked a serious question of you.  Do you really intend to
> thoroughly discredit and refute all fan essays including your own?
>
> What I intend to do in the future is not what's being discussed, however I
> would be receptive to sharing if you can show that you can engage in a
> proper dialogue, rather than a one-sided conversation where you answer
> questions with more questions.
>
> --Aaron
>
>> ...serious question:  what are your stated, project-related Eva goals
>> for
>> the next year?
>>
>> --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> From: Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others
>> To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list."
>> <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 5:20 AM
>>
>>> ...I am openly surprised, at times, how you consider "long messageboard
>>> posts" to be "essays", on par with "professionally formatted journal
>>> articles"
>>
>> From:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay
>>
>> "An essay is usually a short piece of writing which is often written
>> from
>> an author's personal point of view."
>>
>> From:
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essay
>>
>> "an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with
>> its subject from a limited or personal point of view"
>>
>> From:
>> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay
>>
>> "a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually
>> in
>> prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative."
>>
>>> 4- we'll gather all fan essays....so that we might discredit them
>>> thoroughly, instead of simply hurling insults at them.  I.e. gather
>>> everything Napier wrote about the series, in order to write a balanced,
>>> professional refutation of it. 
>>
>> V, you are a fan.  You are not sanctioned by Gainax.  You are not paid
>> by
>> Gainax.  You are not authorized by Gainax in any way, shape, or form to
>> speak authoritatively by Gainax.  You are a fan like everyone else here,
>> with the exception of maybe Carl Horn, who actually works in the
>> industry.
>>
>> You have written many things from your oen personal point of view, that
>> by
>> definition are essays, regardless of whether you consider them polished
>> pieces of work that you would label an "essay", you have in fact written
>> essays as a fan about Evangelion.
>>
>> You have stated that you intend to discredit all fan essays.  If you can
>> be trusted as a man of your word, and truly believe in your revolution,
>> you won't stop short of your own work, and will discredit yourself as
>> well.
>>
>> --Aaron
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