[EVA] Is that the real Asuka

[Sebastian Palm]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christian nutt [mailto:ferricide at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:39 AM
> To: evangelion at eva.onegeek.org
> Subject: RE: [EVA] Is that the real Asuka
>
>
> >From: greg <greg at ghost2138.org>
> >
> >There's a huge number of people who really like EVA but don't like
> >the ending. Is that so hard to understand? Isn't it true that, on
> >average, fans tend to hate the endings of most animes, or at least
> >be disappointed in them? :)
>
> but we're not just talking about EoE here -- or he wasn't. it
> was the last
> four episodes of the series. that's almost the second entire
> half of the
> series (well, 6 episodes, counting the movie as 2, and
> discounting the
> original 25 and 26) that are being argued about.

If Anno had done something - anything - else with the ending, that whole
sequence would have been OK. The final 2 TV episodes are only bad
because of the rush job, and some of the focus. End of Evangelion is bad
because...well it left no real hope, and it it mangled the characters.
EoE, IMHO, is as OOC as it gets, especially when it comes to Shinji, who
couldn't possibly behave the way he did, and Misato (debatable).

> i dunno. i have no interest in talking to people who don't
> appreciate the
> qualities of evangelion that i find to be the most engaging.
> the second half
> of the series is where it starts to get really *good*, imo. i
> am not saying
> anyone has to agree, but the debates and discussions on this
> list focus
> around the ambiguous moments in evangelion, not over "isn't
> penpen cute!"

The latter half of Evangelion is where it would've become a great
series, if it had  lead to an acceptable ending. Salvaging the situation
would have been a great ending. Letting it all slide into decay without
picking it up was not.

> the main thrust, content, and story of the series is embodied
> in the last
> batch of episodes, to my mind. throw that away, and you may
> as well be
> watching anything.

Then do we agree to disagree?

Sebastian