[EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others

Aaron Clark aaronc1 at umbc.edu
Tue Dec 15 12:15:40 EST 2009


> I intend to analyze and refute all of the wrong ones

> 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,

> 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!")

And what makes you incorruptible?  In a show that is layered with
psychological, religious, scientific, artistic, and cultural concepts,
what makes you the authority?  Are you an expert in all of these fields? 
Have you enlisted experts in all of these fields to provide you with
granular, infallible analysis of all the concepts in the show that are
sometimes just thrown in to be exotic?  Most people who have asserted
their opinion on Evangelion (or anything for that matter!) believed they
were true and correct at the time.  But the show is not simple, as the
years of debate has evidenced.  You can't simply refute anyone's opinion
or interpretation as false.  Those are the workings of a deluded
megalomaniac.

Also, I hate to dissapoint you, but I archive essays and articles
regardless of their accuracy.  I think it's important to preserve the
spectrum of analysis, and allow people to learn and find their own
answers.  I will continue to make them available.  And despite your
efforts to disprove people, their thoughts and feelings regarding this
wonderful series will NOT be forgotten.

> we

Please stop speaking in first person plural, it makes you sound like a
crazyperson.

--Aaron


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