OKAY. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION THREAD TIME! Gonna watch the first ep! But first, groundrules: -No spoilers, duh, but don't talk about future episodes. Every time I try to watch anime someone's like "oh if liked that moment just WAIT til this episode when..." Like. don't do that!
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This one shot feels like the entire tone of the show... well half of it at least.pic.twitter.com/EbglSqsxeQ
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Oh so wait this is basically Pacific Rim!?!???????????!???????!!
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Episode 1: Angel Attack - HOW DO I NOT WATCH THE NEXT EPISODE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT LAST LINE, FORGET TALKING ABOUT IT ONTO NEXT!
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Show: "shinji respond!!! *silent cut to hospital bed* Me: "... oh this is show is going to be really good, isn't it?"
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You werent lying when you said this show was VERY horny were you?pic.twitter.com/ufMnUyaZjt
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Episode 2: Unfamiliar Feelings - Yeah. Ok. Yup. YUP. This is show is very good. The way it plays with the structure in this one is inspired, and then the way it comes back with the haunting nightmare eye shit. YUP. On fucking point. I'll leave it there for tonight. More tomorrow
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Update: I have awoken to discover that a bunch of people who don't follow me don't understand that I was joking about this "being pacific rim" and not the other way around. CONTEXTLESS INTERNET HATE, YAY.
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Have started episode 3... I already love the intro theme! I miss intro themes! They put you in A MOOD. Remember moods?!
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The sense of composition in this show is remarkable. Every choice matters, gives you perspective, scale, internalizes or externalizes the character. Im really lovin itpic.twitter.com/uaVG6Ttj0x
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Episode 3: Okay. What I really like about the the show is that it has a remarkable sense of interiority with all the characters. It could so easily defer to textures, moods, and poetics, but instead it grounds everything in character psyche... This is the real deal, isn't it?
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And to people keep being surprised that I haven't seen this. A LOT of people my age haven't A LOT of anime. When you grow up and just miss the window of Cowboy Bebop and Sailor Moon, that means you missed the popular anime wave that came after,
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Yeah I knew a few kids who were into Anime here and there, but you have no idea how different it was with kids even a few years younger than me. They caught a whole different wave of cultural interest. They grew up with it. I didn't. But that's the thing...
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The whole point of these threads I'm doing is to go back and re-visit a lot of what I missed (just did threads on pokemon / avatar). And hopefully, prove that there's no such thing as being "too late" or "too old" to experience something that's outstanding. There's just the will.
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For those curious, here's the pokemon threadhttps://twitter.com/filmcrithulk/status/1081291678365900800?lang=en …
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And here's the Avatar: The Last Airbender threadhttps://twitter.com/filmcrithulk/status/1110350158691065857?lang=en …
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Episode 4: Ppl told me that this was a show about depression and that made me... cautious. I know everyone has different experiences, but i feel like once you've experienced depression you get this real B.S. detector for the shows that "get it" versus the shows that "use it"
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And oh brother does this show get it. It's not just the dour outward expressions, and crushing internal sense of nothingness, it's understanding the anhedonia and specific triggers that both break through and fail to break through, often worsening the cycle.
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What the show also hopefully highlights is how much society's understanding of depression back in the 90's was... severely lacking. And how people's extreme, non-empathetic reactions highlight a society that just had no real words or understanding for it. Just brutal.
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But like most great work about depression and suicide, it understands the greatest of victories is often the simple, stalwart, herculean ability to simply put one foot in front of the other... And how those victories can't help but bring continued cost.
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Episode 5: knew 5 minutes in that I was going to like the way this show continues to play with time. It's not trying to obfuscate things for mere delay (at 22 minute it can't afford to,) but tell a dramatic story that way. Also, good god do they actually GET cliffhangers!
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Episode 6: I almost don't know what to do with the moments of hope... but neither do they.
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Also for those who want to build action sequences, take lessons on how they set objectives, turn the screws, have things go worse, and ratchet up the drama.
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Episode 7: obviously more sleight than the freight trains that came before, but just as critical I'm assuming for set-up. And in the end, an important lesson: "that's what families do"... not like I would know.
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Episode 8: The sense of scale in this show continues to impress, largely cuz it's constantly trying to think about how to use that scale creatively. Seeing the EVA hop on top of battleships is precisely that sort of fun so many others dont think of. Also, my god, the horniness.
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