[EVA] Moura interviews with Gainax people & others

[immano]

 > Gwern:  people who watched this show in the late 1990's, often
 > without the guidebooks and not knowing the creators stated the
 > religious stuff was just to "look cool", and not the real
 > message...got so used to thinking of it that way, for years, that it
 > has become deeply ingrained in thought on the series.  It will be
 > difficult to convince people otherwise with just an e-mail message or
 > two.  I"ve come to accept that this will be hard work.

Now, this was very patronizing and arrogant. And please do not hide 
behind a finger by saying you formally didn't accuse point it towards 
anyone in particular.
Thank you for bunching everybody but you into one single heap that, "in 
the late 1990's", was basically a crowd of ignorant morons who could 
only passively wait for their head to be filled with misconceptions 
until you arrived to liberate their minds.

 > Tsurumaki said the reason they used the religious imagery was to make
 > their show "distinct" in a sea of other giant robot shows.

Yes, yes. And, Anno also declared that he didn't make Eva as part of a 
cathartic process during his depression but only because he wanted to 
have fun doing it.
More often than not, certain answers come out of a certain polite 
formality that is ingrained in Japanese culture. Just as often, a 
sentence conveys more than one concept and can be taken at more than 
just face value.
And I have to ask just *what* "sea of giant robot shows" we're talking 
about, since the genre was defunct by the late 80's.

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