[EVA] searching problems

chris wild shinji at maclux-rz.uibk.ac.at
Thu Nov 1 19:04:51 EST 2001


Hi all :)

I have an archive for the EFML running on my machine (based on mhonarc 
and procmail). Search works as far as I know (and after 2000 ;p) so If 
you want I can start to archive the list there from next week on. - As 
some Kind of Backup - and if the Listowner is not against it.

chris


On Donnerstag, November 1, 2001, at 05:58 , Brian Haynes wrote:

>
>> Hmm...That's a pretty Fruedian approach, if I've ever seen one. It's 
>> decently
>> well thought out, and though Ockham's Razor would tear it to peices, 
>> it was an
>> interesting read. A point to note were the author's idea that Gendo, 
>> Kowaru,
>> SEELE, (and most other characters and objects in the series) were
>> manifestations of Shinji's various emotions, experiences, potentials, 
>> etc. A
>> load of hooey, but still kind of interesting, I suppose.
>>
>> As Georgia O'Keefe once said: "It's just a flower people!"
>
> Yeah, after the first page or two I just started skimming.  He tried to 
> explain basically everything in the show as a symbol for something 
> else.  It was like English Literature class on crack, or something.  
> Although he obviously put some time and thought into it, his theories 
> don't seem to have any congruity, they don't pull together.  The part 
> that I read seemed to have a lot of little ideas, but there was no main 
> idea to pull them together.  Anywho, it seems to me that some people 
> who really like this series seem to find more symbolism in it than Anno 
> actually intended.  You can kindof see this in interviews with people 
> from Gainax who worked on the show.  There will be a question about 
> something that has a common fan interpretation and the person being 
> interviewed basically says "Um, no, it's just this.  There wasn't 
> supposed to be any meaning behind it.  We just thought it looked 
> cool."  This especially applies to basically ALL of the christian 
> symbols in NGE.
>     -Deus
>
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