[EVA] ADV Platinum booklets reliability

[Immano]

Given the target audience, I think they can be forgiven for trying to  
pitch it as something appealing to the vast majority rather than  
propose it as something less of a piece of entertainment and more of a  
social commentary. They are in this for the money, after all, and  
rightfully so. (and let's never forget that so was Anno and all of  
Gainax)

Ebj



> Addition makes the tongue-in-cheek "Eva was making fun of other  
> Giant Anime tropes" side of the series very obvious.
>
> If it was actually in the set, more casual fans would realize "oh,  
> they were making fun of such and such trope"....some people honestly  
> take Eva at face value then act surprised when the character arcs  
> aren't very formulaic (i.e. how Watchmen was a twist on Superhero  
> stuff; i.e. Night Owl II is a wimp, and so is Shinji)....
>
> ...instead....have you *seen* the FUNimation trailers for Rebuild?   
> Full of action scenes, no better than the ADV ones.  I'm worried  
> that...they don't realize that much of the story is making fun of  
> the conventions of the story.
>
> I was surprised that the voice actors like Grant...are quote "aware"  
> of things like ReDeath but haven't seen it in 14 years; but didn't  
> someone say they're "aware" of the Addition Audio Drama?
>
> Long story short:  it would get more fans on the street to realize  
> that "Eva was the product of, and a commentary on, decades of Giant  
> Robot shows and was very much a genre-aware show, breaking rules as  
> it redefined them"
>
> --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [EVA] ADV Platinum booklets reliability
> To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list." <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org 
> >
> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 8:12 PM
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, V V <frumious99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I already realized after Peter's last message that "the real  
>> Rebirth" has some value to it, yes.
>>
>> To clarify by example, what I meant was that I don't stay up nights  
>> wishing "wow I hope real ReBirth comes along"...so much as I openly  
>> lament "why didn't we ever get an English release of the Addition  
>> Audio Drama?"  I'm toning down that criticism to that I really  
>> think there are bigger shortfalls...(it's not like we don't have  
>> "real ReBirth" circulating around anyway)
>
> Why would we want an official release? The translation is enough,
> unless you *want* to hear Spencer do some more whining (and no doubt
> Greenfield would be cast as the Black God).
>
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