So if you think I'm ultimately going to knock a creator for to essentially taking the finale of his show and turning into psychological pep-talk on why he shouldn't commit suicide and is deserving of a right to exist. Well, then, you don't know me at all. Now, onto The End...
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(please stop trying to tell me the context. I'm trying to watch the story as a document).
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END OF EVANGELION: ... ....... ................ *slow clap* That might be one of the most layered, fascinating, brutally honest, utterly devastating, weirdly hopeful, but totally uncompromising works I've seen. ... Gonna need a few.
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There's no way to sum this up with a few tweets, so I'm going to go do my usual and write a big ass essay and link when I'm done. But for now, I'll try to sum it up in one damn tweet...
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From Cosmic Opera, to Cosmic Horror, to Cosmic Pop, EofEvangelion went full Koyaanisqatsi in order to recognize not just the right to exist, but the hardest part of actually doing that: living with the disgusting beast within. By accepting that crying is braver than strangling.
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*writes feverishly... stops* Oh damnit, this show is going to make me actually read the bible again, isn't it? *blows dust off it*
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Yet it's one of the most concrete deconstructions of the adam / eve myth I've ever seen, right down to "genesis" being in the show title. Y'all reeeeaally need to grasp when an author is doing a duck. There's a reason Lynch and co. do it (because answering doesn't help)
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Currently writing an essay. But authors duck tricky questions all the time, ESPECIALLY about religion. But also because the entire point a lot of times is to let people do their interpretation. The author otherwise gets in the way.
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Nolan actually said something I really really like once, which was "their interpretation is as good as mine." Which isn't discounting it, it's "as good as" which is an equality I find really poetic.
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Well, like the show itself, there's a whole death / rebirth thing that happens in terms of how we come to terms with it, to which, lindsay ellis killed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A …
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