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"Don't worry..."
 
   ... having just stumbled across the trailer for Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance over at ye Apple website, I just wanted to reassure everybody that, although I fully understand Mr. Anno's motivation this time (at least in the abstract), I'm not going to follow his lead and do NXE all over again.

--G.
Exodus 2.0: You Are (Not) Gonna Believe This Shit
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Don't worry... [View All] Gryphonadmin Mar-25-11 TOP
  RE: Don't worry... BeardedFerret Mar-25-11 1
     RE: Don't worry... BobSchroeck Mar-25-11 2
     RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-25-11 4
         RE: Don't worry... trigger Mar-26-11 7
             RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-26-11 8
                 RE: Don't worry... twipper Apr-05-11 14
                     RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Apr-05-11 15
                         RE: Don't worry... Offsides Apr-05-11 16
                             RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Apr-05-11 17
                                 RE: Don't worry... Offsides Apr-05-11 18
                                     RE: Don't worry... SliderDaFeral Apr-06-11 19
                 RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-09-13 29
                     RE: Don't worry... Pasha Mar-09-13 30
                         RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-09-13 31
                             RE: Don't worry... Verbena Mar-09-13 32
                                 RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-09-13 35
                             RE: Don't worry... SliderDaFeral Mar-11-13 39
                 RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Feb-06-16 40
         RE: Don't worry... mdg1 Mar-09-13 33
             RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-09-13 34
                 RE: Don't worry... mdg1 Mar-09-13 36
                     RE: Don't worry... Terminus Est Mar-10-13 38
                 RE: Don't worry... StClair Feb-06-16 41
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     RE: Don't worry... TheOtherSean Mar-25-11 5
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     RE: Don't worry... dbrandon Mar-28-11 11
  RE: Don't worry... WengFook Mar-27-11 9
     RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-27-11 10
         RE: Don't worry... Pasha Feb-21-13 26
         RE: Don't worry... Zemyla Mar-09-13 37
  RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Mar-31-11 12
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     RE: Don't worry... Gryphonadmin Feb-21-13 25
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         RE: Don't worry... laudre Feb-22-13 27
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1. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   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.


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2. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >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.

Which would be pretty cool, if it were so... Not likely, though.

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4. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >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 SoryĆ» 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, SoryĆ»."

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 WalkĆ¼re along. Good times.

--G.
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7. "RE: Don't worry..."
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>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.......
>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 WalkĆ¼re along. Good times.

I might pay to see that. If only because the production values would be better this time around. Does DJ crush the US armed forces again? Maye this time with more Michael Bay(tm)?


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8. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>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 WalkĆ¼re along. Good times.
>
>I might pay to see that. If only because the production values would
>be better this time around. Does DJ crush the US armed forces again?
>Maye this time with more Michael Bay(tm)?

Oh, I've no idea. That's as far as I got before I had to go and lie down until the impulse passed. :)

--G.
(Also: my mental image of Exodus 2.0 Rei is basically Rei's body inhabited by the spirit of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski. Possibly because of all the painkillers she's been on since the EVA-00 Test Incident. Rei abides.)
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14. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   Damn it thats the second *gigglesnort* in 5 minutes of browsing the forums for the first time in a few weeks. And this one included a near spit-take.

*heeheehee*


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15. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >Damn it thats the second *gigglesnort* in 5 minutes of browsing the
>forums for the first time in a few weeks. And this one included a
>near spit-take.
>
>*heeheehee*

Asuka: Saturday, Shinji, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don't fucking launch!

Shinji: Sheesh.

Rei (wearily): Will you come off it, Asuka? You're not even fucking Jewish. You're fucking German Catholic.

--G.
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16. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   As one of the forum's resident Jews, I can't decide what's more amusing - Asuka's speech about what she won't do on the Sabbath, or the fact that she used the Ashkenazi Shabbos, rather that the more common Shabbat or the english Sabbath. The fact that she's Catholic is just the icing on the cake :)

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17. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >As one of the forum's resident Jews, I can't decide what's more
>amusing - Asuka's speech about what she won't do on the Sabbath, or
>the fact that she used the Ashkenazi Shabbos, rather that the
>more common Shabbat or the english Sabbath. The fact that she's
>Catholic is just the icing on the cake :)

Well, those are all just modified quotes from The Big Lebowski, so I can't really take credit for that. (And I don't think Asuka is actually Catholic - in NXE she describes herself once as a "lapsed Lutheran" - but that's part of the quote, so. :)

--G.
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18. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   Never saw it, but I'm gonna have to now, if just for that line :)

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19. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Apr-06-11 AT 11:18 AM (EDT)
 
"Shoma fucking Shabbos." :)

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29. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>I might pay to see that. If only because the production values would
>>be better this time around. Does DJ crush the US armed forces again?
>>Maye this time with more Michael Bay(tm)?
>
>Oh, I've no idea. That's as far as I got before I had to go and lie
>down until the impulse passed. :)

Alter-alternately, I could've done the parallel-universe NXE which is more or less the same as the actual one, except DJ's initials stand for Dorothy Jean and he's a girl. But still acts basically the same. :)

--G.
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30. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>>I might pay to see that. If only because the production values would
>>>be better this time around. Does DJ crush the US armed forces again?
>>>Maye this time with more Michael Bay(tm)?
>>
>>Oh, I've no idea. That's as far as I got before I had to go and lie
>>down until the impulse passed. :)
>
>Alter-alternately, I could've done the parallel-universe NXE which is
>more or less the same as the actual one, except DJ's initials stand
>for Dorothy Jean and he's a girl. But still acts basically the same.
>:)
>
>--G.
>"If I was rogering Rei, she'd be a damn sight more than
>slightly erratic."

Because that's what the EPU body of work needs. More crypto-lesbians.

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31. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-13 AT 01:31 AM (EST)
 
>Because that's what the EPU body of work needs. More crypto-lesbians.

There would have been nothing crypto about the Honourable Dorothy J. Croft's lesbianism, I assure you. (Though the line about Rei would still have been a joke.)

--G.
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32. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>Because that's what the EPU body of work needs. More crypto-lesbians.
>
>There would have been nothing crypto about the Honourable Dorothy J.
>Croft's lesbianism, I assure you. (Though the line about Rei would
>still have been a joke.)

This is an image that is not leaving my mind anytime soon. =)

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35. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>There would have been nothing crypto about the Honourable Dorothy J.
>>Croft's lesbianism, I assure you. (Though the line about Rei would
>>still have been a joke.)
>
>This is an image that is not leaving my mind anytime soon. =)

Well, then my work here is done.

--G.
"God, Asuka, how I've missed you. When this is all over, will you run away with me to Paris?"
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39. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Mar-14-13 AT 02:06 AM (EDT)
 
>>Because that's what the EPU body of work needs. More crypto-lesbians.
>
>There would have been nothing crypto about the Honourable Dorothy J.
>Croft's lesbianism, I assure you. (Though the line about Rei would
>still have been a joke.)

Three cheers for Rule 63!

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40. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   I shall do necromancy to this thread, because it's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

I still haven't seen the Rebuild of Evangelion movies (because why would I do that to myself :), but in conjunction with this odd impulse to re-experience NXE, I have seen a lot of mostly-context-free connected artwork, courtesy of danbooru. I'm particularly fond of this one (SFW, but a lot of stuff there isn't, you know the drill); that face says to me, "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing," which is an attitude I like in an Asuka. (Also, I kind of dig the low-budget plugsuit repairs. It's nice that she cared enough to colormatch her duct tape. I further choose to believe that she has Mio Sakamoto Eye, not an injury.)

Also this one, to my comment upon which I have nothing much to add. I think that's basically UF-Rei's resting face, actually. The Sith Code teaches us: Don't start none, won't be none. :)

At any rate, it's all got me thinking a bit more about the joke I made a few years ago, about what an NXE reboot would look like:

>>>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 WalkĆ¼re along. Good times.

Upon reflection, I think if I were going to reset NXE, I'd probably skip the mutual abrasion phase, particularly if we were first seeing DJ and Asuka on screen some time after their actual meeting. It's, y'know, we've done that. And besides, she'd be just as glad to be getting out of Germany as he is.

Actually, a series set at a NERV base where nothing much ever happens would be amusing in a Non-Adventures of Wonderella kind of way. It's not a joke that would be sustainable, but it would have worked as an NXE Bonus Theater!! segment if I'd thought of it at the time. DJ and Asuka sitting around a structure like the old Wedge Booth No. 1 in the secret EVA hangar EuroNERV set up in the old U-boat pens at Kiel, bored out of their skulls, playing cards and wondering why Japan HQ is getting all the love. Maybe sitting around in their EVAs playing giant cards just for the change of pace. Cobwebs on the gantries. A slow, maddening drip somewhere in the shadowy background. Sausages and black coffee. Asuka shooting her initials into the wall out of sheer boredom, Sherlock Holmes style. Day counter in the lower left corner slowly advancing, as the only visible change to the scene (apart from the constantly changing covers of the books they're both reading) is that by Day 255 it's becoming obvious that DJ's going to need to start shaving soon. The first rule of EVA Club is you don't talk about EVA Club.

Heh. I don't even need to write that, I just did. :)

>>I might pay to see that. If only because the production values would
>>be better this time around. Does DJ crush the US armed forces again?
>>Maye this time with more Michael Bay(tm)?

Hey, he blew up the AT&T Building last time! That was pretty baytastic.

Anyway, he probably wouldn't need to fight the US Army the second time around, although he might have had some trouble with the authorities in Germany before they left, particularly if he got bored enough to find out how much he could really get an EVA up to on a derestricted Autobahn.

"It was a little misunderstanding with 147 Mecklenburg cops! I thought they were soldiers."

>(Also: my mental image of Exodus 2.0 Rei is basically
>Rei's body inhabited by the spirit of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski.
>Possibly because of all the painkillers she's been on since the EVA-00
>Test Incident. Rei abides.)

ASUKA
Also, let's not forget that keeping wildlife, a flightless Antarctic waterfowl, for, uh, domestic, you know, within the city, that's not legal either.

REI
What are you, a fucking park ranger now? Who gives a shit about the fucking penguin?

--G.
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33. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   For no particular reason, I'm now wondering how Eva would be different if Gendo was replaced by Taiga Koutarou.

Mario


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34. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >For no particular reason, I'm now wondering how Eva would be different
>if Gendo was replaced by Taiga Koutarou.

I'm not sure (probable sharp increase in overall daftness), but my first attempt at a mental lookup on that name returned a false positive on Takeshi Kaga, which would also have been fairly epic.

--G.
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36. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   Right idea, wrong Chairman. I speak, of course, of the wielder of the amazing Taiga Wood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFusLC8q9w#!

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   ...I will never view golf the same way again.


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   "Today's ingredient: TANG!"


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CGWolfgang
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   I've just finished rereading NXE in its entirety over the past month while stuck in the barracks at a tech school and I can honestly say I'm happy to hear your collective re-imagining of NGE is going to stay the same.

To be honest I like it better than the source material. (after watching the original series I can't stomach the thought of watching the series or its spin offs/remakes I wound up hating it that much.)

For me the most interesting part of NXE was the ultimate redemption plot. Kudo's to whoever thought that up.

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   >For me the most interesting part of NXE was the ultimate redemption
>plot. Kudo's to whoever thought that up.

I think redemption is a major theme throughout much of the Eyrie works. In this case, its just more... celestial.

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   Eva 2.0: But I'm Feeling Much Better Now


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   </John Astin>


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Actually speaking of movie remakes and the cool stuff that materializes on the blu-ray dvd's. Would the be any chance of the NXE blooper reel, which was mentioned years ago, ever be released? :D


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   >Actually speaking of movie remakes and the cool stuff that
>materializes on the blu-ray dvd's. Would the be any chance of the NXE
>blooper reel, which was mentioned years ago, ever be released? :D

The "blooper" gag got done about as much as it was ever going to get done in the season-3 Bonus Theater! segments; what was going to be on the "DVD edition" of Apotheosis Now was mainly a metafictional mock "making of" documentary that seemed like a really funny idea at the time we thought of it, but never really gained traction. At this point it's probably reasonably safe to assume it's dead, although you never entirely know around here.

There were also a couple of deleted scenes, in proper DVD fashion, but, er... I seem to have misplaced them. I remember one was a longer version of the dream sequence with Rei and the phantom DJ (hmm, that sounds like a C-list DC Comics hero from the '60s, The Phantom DJ, appearing in clubs and spinning records from beyond the grave!), and there was an earlier version of the scene up the radio antenna... ah well. Probably no great loss. I do hate it when I manage to lose files, even if I'm never going to use them for anything, though.

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   >I remember one was a longer version of the dream sequence with Rei and the phantom DJ (hmm, that sounds like a C-list DC Comics hero from the '60s, The Phantom DJ, appearing in clubs and spinning records from beyond the
>grave!
)

I was re-reading this thread after it got necro'd, and this stuck:
Rei and the Phantom DJ's the stage show of which involves mostly Rei upfront singing, with a couple of drum machines/turntables/samplers/etc being run like those self playing pianos..until some point in the show that the smoke machines come on thick enough to show that there are people in Predator Cloaks running the equipment.

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37. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   >>Actually speaking of movie remakes and the cool stuff that
>>materializes on the blu-ray dvd's. Would the be any chance of the NXE
>>blooper reel, which was mentioned years ago, ever be released? :D
>
>The "blooper" gag got done about as much as it was ever going to get
>done in the season-3 Bonus Theater! segments; what was going to
>be on the "DVD edition" of Apotheosis Now was mainly a
>metafictional mock "making of" documentary that seemed like a really
>funny idea at the time we thought of it, but never really gained
>traction. At this point it's probably reasonably safe to assume it's
>dead, although you never entirely know around here.

Shame. I'm hoping we'd at least see bloopers from the filming of Apotheosis Now.


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   "It's nothing personal, you understand. It's just that I'm a Briton and she's a Thuringian. We have to be enemies. It's in our blood. The only thing that could possibly reconcile us, even temporarily is a mutual hatred of the Roman invaders. Bloody Romans! Go home! And take your damned Gauls with you!"

- young Croft's notion of prevailing European geopolitics is, perhaps, slightly out of date

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   "Master Croft, your Longinius is showing."

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   Apologies for performing threadromancy, but 3.0's just come out and while I haven't watched it yet, I want to mock it a bit and surely we don't need another thread for that quite yet.

To celebrate the release of 3.0 - You Will (Not) Understand - someone or other released a custom-skinned Android phone. The custom skin has now been released (or pirated?) and my brother got his hands on it:

"...and get a user interface designer in on this project -quick- because, -damn-."


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   The hexagons say Evangelion, but the color scheme says Mass Effect 2.

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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-21-13 AT 08:44 AM (EST)
 
>... having just stumbled across the trailer for Evangelion 2.0: You
>Can (Not) Advance
over at ye Apple website, I just wanted to
>reassure everybody that, although I fully understand Mr. Anno's
>motivation this time (at least in the abstract), I'm not going to
>follow his lead and do NXE all over again.

I missed this thread the first time around (since, at the time, I wasn't really reading the forum at all anyway), but the timing in which I did see it is... interesting.

See, my wife has been following the series in a meta way -- we haven't sat down to watch any Rebuild yet, and probably won't until it's completed later this year -- but she's watched clips, read summaries, and so on. She pointed out to me some story and character decisions that differ from the original in a particular way, and a couple of peculiar art and design things, along with some altogether new events at the end of 3.0, which can be read to imply that Rebuild is not, in fact, a remake of the original series.

It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to redo the events over and over again to try to get things right -- that is, the original Shinji, who is not present in the series as Shinji, but as Gendou. Some specifics: Gendou's face is slightly different, more round, and his eyes are different, too, from the design in the original series. If it were any other production company? I wouldn't ascribe much to it. But between Anno's obsession with detail -- up there with Kubrick -- and another change (instead of Gendou changing his surname to Ikari, it's now his family name, and Yui changed her name instead... from Ayanami), not to mention all the things that have been added to what the Evas are and what an Impact (in the Second/Third/etc. sense)... I'm inclined to agree.

Giving NXE this treatment? Would be weird. To say the least.

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   >It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to
>redo the events over and over again to try to get things right

EXT. DAY. EVA-01 careens along a country road.

INT. EVA-01 ENTRY PLUG. GENDOU is in the pilot's seat, but PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL is wearing the interface set and appears to be doing the actual driving.

Gendou: That's not bad for a quadruped.

EXT. DAY. Wide shot; now we can see that the other EVAs are in hot pursuit.

INT. EVA-01 ENTRY PLUG. GENDOU appears delighted.

Gendou: Hey, they're chasing us! C'mon, make it fun.

EXT. DAY. EVA-01 smashes down a fence and lurches violently across open ground, knocking over everything in its path.

INT. EVA-01 ENTRY PLUG.

Gendou: Don't drive angry! Don't drive angry.

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   Oh, man. I'm trying REAL hard not to just totally lose it sitting here at work. That is effing _hilarious_. And I can totally see it too...

Damn, I'm going to have the image of EVA-01 being driven by a groundhog in my head all day now...

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24. "RE: Don't worry..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-21-13 AT 12:12 PM (EST)
 
>>It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to
>>redo the events over and over again to try to get things right

Alternately:

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Suppose I accidentally got my shit together
Would I get a medal
Or a pat on the back and a little feather
I could stick in my cap or pin to my shirt?
Go out in the yard and poke it in the dirt
Or leave it in the woods where it couldn't be found
If it fell over, would it make a sound?
And if it did, would it be the sound that you like?
Or should I do it over until I get it right?
You say everything I know is wrong
So do me a favor and play along for a minute
As the rusty gears turn
Don't be alarmed if you smell something burning upstairs
It's a little BB rolling around in a boxcar
See us together
Maybe it wouldn't be hard to explain
If I only had a brain

Somewhere on a higher mental plane
I might learn to come in from the rain
If I had a clue
Would I still be here with you?
Gee whiz, if I only had a brain

Who's that? Oh, my little friend Cupid
Wearing a shirt that says "I'm With Stupid"
Always nearby wherever I go
He's lookin' out for me, don't you know
Mr. Excitement, never in a rut
Johnny-on-the-Spot with an arrow in the butt
Ouch! Guess your love is true
Now if I could only get a clue

Somewhere on a higher mental plane
I might learn to come in from the rain
If I had a clue
Would I still be here with you?
Gee whiz, if I only had a brain

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   >>It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to
>>redo the events over and over again to try to get things right
>
>EXT. DAY. EVA-01 careens along a country road.
>
>INT. EVA-01 ENTRY PLUG. GENDOU is in the pilot's seat, but
>PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL is wearing the interface set and appears to be doing
>the actual driving.
<snip>

Well, that the do-over has happened more than once is more speculation than the rest of our hypothesis, but if it has? Just to make it even more surreal, Punxsutawney Phil would be played by Kaworu.

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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-13 AT 06:02 PM (EST)
 
>It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to
>redo the events over and over again to try to get things right
>-- that is, the original Shinji, who is not present in the
>series as Shinji, but as Gendou. Some specifics: Gendou's face
>is slightly different, more round, and his eyes are different, too,
>from the design in the original series. If it were any other
>production company? I wouldn't ascribe much to it. But between Anno's
>obsession with detail -- up there with Kubrick -- and another
>change (instead of Gendou changing his surname to Ikari, it's now his
>family name, and Yui changed her name instead... from Ayanami),
>not to mention all the things that have been added to what the Evas
>are and what an Impact (in the Second/Third/etc. sense)... I'm
>inclined to agree.
>

I think there's a fanfic that did that. IIRC, it came right out of nowhere, and might have been an omake, but they did it. Having trouble recalling the author (might or might not have been bluepencil) or title, though, but I think it was on TFF.


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