>Honestly, half the time I was watching 2.0 I was just assuming that
>Anno had read NXE and was doing a bizarre homage-homage.

I have to admit that would be charmingly perverse, especially considering that NXE was sort of an antihomage. If I were doing it again,2.0 style, it'd be even more so; in fact, it'd be a lot more like Evangelion Victory, the Gaogaigar-esque parody we did a trailer for in one of the season-3 Bonus Theater! segments.

Instead of riffing on Shinji's arrival in Tokyo-3, the first episode would involve him and, in fact, the whole NERV Japan team arriving in Worcester, having got out of Tokyo-3 just ahead of the city ceasing to be there and fled to the organization's next-biggest base. There, a very bored Jon Ellison would've been waiting around for six months for the Angels to hit North America, unaware (as indeed all of NERV is unaware) that the only reason they're going to Japan in the first place is because Professor Ikari keeps the MacGuffin in his desk and they're never going to appear anywhere else.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the Honourable Derek Croft (only son of Lara, Baroness Croft) and Asuka Soryû have been similarly cooling their heels since the project began and are, if anything, going even more stir-crazy than Jon. In addition to not having any giant aliens to fight, they also dislike each other intensely - though not as intensely as DJ dislikes having to live in Germany, which he (rather unfairly) describes as "a fussy, procedure-obsessed wasteland, probably the only civilised country on Earth capable of producing creatures like you, Soryû."

Eventually, after Shinji, Rei and Jon's first contretemps with the forces of giant incomprehensibility, someone will twig that it's something about the Japan team the Angels are following and the Europe group will also get moved to the US, at which point much wackiness ensues. Poor DJ, in particular, will be thrilled to be getting the hell out of Germany, but at the same time crushed that it's not to go home, and that he has to take die Walküre along. Good times.

--G.
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