[EVA] PENPEN / REI AYANAMI / ADV

[Ayanami^Rei]

At 10:57 AM 11/7/97 -0000, Dave Stark wrote:

>Question time, cast your minds back to ep.1. Shinji trying to use the phone
>as the Angel makes an appearance. He turns round and sees a schoolgirl in
>the mid distance, turns round, looks again and she's gone. The figure looks
>like Rei and I'm bloody sure it's Rei, but she isn't injured. Does this
>mean Gendou has 2 Rei's on the go at once ( lucky devil  ), is it Rei III,
>or just one of those stunts Anno pulls to mess with your mind ?

Most would describe this moment as a forewarning of things to come.  In
other words, old Hideaki is trying to mess with our minds again.  Of
course, I've occasionally subscribed to the theory that we see not one, but
two Rei's walking around throughout the series....  Reis II and III
wandering around, taking each others place when need be.  Now that would be
the kind of mind-messing opportunity I feel Anno may have missed whilst
making the show.

>Finally, I confess to being a die hard sub fan, so unsurprisingly the dub
>copy of 0:1 a friend got left me a little unimpressed. Before all the dub
>fans form a  lynch mob, yes there are some good dubs  out there, such as El
>Hazard, but the EVA dub misses the boat. As a generalisation the dialogue
>seems stilted, with less emotional emphasis placed compared with the
>original Japanese dialogue. Specifically Shinji, the kid is a mix of
>emotions waiting for release, unfortunately as has been mentioned  he
>sounds more like a 30 year old doing a (bad) young voice. I shudder to
>think what they've done to Rei ( personal favourite :) ).

I'm no fan of dubs, so I'll back you up against the dub-lovers.  One of the
lamest defences I've heard for dubs is that subtitles damage picture
quality....  Dubs damage the intellect.  Oops, get in trouble again if I go
much further along that line of inquiry ^_^.  Anyways, despite the best
efforts of many of the dubbing studios, I find that the whole delivery of
the dub actors to be stilted, and the translations to be neutered of their
cultural baggage.  Maybe thats what I dislike about dubs....  They almost
cease to be Japanese...  Oh well, I'll think up a thesis explaining this
one day.

Ayanami^Rei
(So my soul looks like Hayashibara Megumi....  I wonder what went wrong all
these years)