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[Twig]

Shinji masturbating on a comatose Rei

Yyyyyep. Welcome to Evangelion. It's a masterpiece.

[Coods]

The entire premise of Re-Take is so strange that I really can't support it as a "should have been", but i guess it was alright. I remember it having "adult" sections, but not enough to call it an "adult" doujin apparently.

[Gormongous]

Yeah, those are pretty much my feelings too. Good to know.

[Coods]

Also its hilarious that it is essentially the same plot as the Mortal Kombat remake.

[tegan]

Tegan (or anyone else), have you ever read the Re-Take doujin? I was told that it's what Evangelion's ending should have been, but I found it kinda whatever, though I haven't had anyone to bounce those feelings off of.

 

I've never heard of this until now, but reading the summaries on Evageeks makes it sound hilariously dumb.

[Gormongous]

It's kinda just a thing. Like, it captures the feel of Eva really well, the aura of pervasive psychological oppression that a lot of people (like Twig) process as obnoxious, but it changes Asuka from Shinji's perfect other to Shinji's perfect lover, which misses the point. I don't know, I enjoyed it, but if I woke up to find that End of Evangelion had been replaced by Re-Take, I'd be pretty darn upset. That's a mixed recommendation, but one nonetheless.

[Roderick]

I didn't have the heart, nor the memory of what exactly happened in the series/movies, to process Re-Take. It seems like something only superduperfans could ever hope to pierce, with all the minutiae about what happened when this or that angel attacked, and how it subtly affected every single relationship. God, Evangelion fandom is hardcore. I once belonged to it, writing huge epistles on what I thought was happening.

[Codicier]

Looking forward to part Rebuild of Eva 3.0, Gainax really seem to be taking their time and justifying the decision to do a remake.

 

Of course that's only if you do consider it a remake, which I don't. So I'm expecting 3.0 will either render me utterly wrong or satisfyingly correct). 

I'm not sure if processing it completely wrong but I've become convinced that the whole Rebuild is actually a weird continuation of the original timeline.

My reading is based off just 3 things: a vague memory of a half second shot the moon getting marked by a stream of blood from a giant Rei in the End of Evangelion and the continued presence of that mark in the tiny preview at the end of 1.0, and the "this time" remark at the end of 2.0, and of course 3.0's title YOU CAN (NOT) REDO.

Anyways it will be good to finally get some clarification on whether those things are just big old red herrings or if there's something to them. The trailer released last year didn't offer me many clues either way.

 

In the mean time I'm going to try to find and read re-take (can anyone suggest a non virus ridden location where i can find a download of it?) while I wait for a fan sub to put out 3.0 (shouldn't be long now).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gormongous]

UTW-Thora released its fansub of Rebuild 3.33 around midnight central time. I might make a day out of it tomorrow.

 

On a side note, if anyone here would want an invite to one of the more exclusive and extensive private anime trackers out there, they could do worse than sending me a PM with their email. The luck I've had lately might be catching.

[Codicier]

Damn fansubs file sizes have got huge! 

 

Not sure how I feel about the HD encodes of stuff you get nowadays.10 years ago when I first started watching anime more, small file size meant if you liked what you saw you had a damn good reason to try and find a legitimate version of something. Now I'm not so sure the incentive is there. 

 

Still I'm really glad anime and manga have a strong fansub culture around them,and i think it's a healthy thing for the industry. It's really has given me access to shows and given me awareness of some creators that in some cases never got a European English language release even years after their début in Japan.

[tegan]

I got it, but I can't watch it. It's nearly nine gigs thanks to being a 1080p MKV with FLAC audio. My PC's not beefy enough to run that, and Windows flat-out won't let me copy it to a flash drive so I can run it on my HD box. I've never seen it outright refuse to copy something like that before. I don't know why, it's a 16GB drive.

[Gormongous]

I think it's a Hi10p file anyway, it won't play on your box. That's weird with Windows, though.

 

I have a friend guilting me into waiting until tomorrow to watch it with her. I'm not happy about this.

[Ben X]

I got it, but I can't watch it. It's nearly nine gigs thanks to being a 1080p MKV with FLAC audio. My PC's not beefy enough to run that, and Windows flat-out won't let me copy it to a flash drive so I can run it on my HD box. I've never seen it outright refuse to copy something like that before. I don't know why, it's a 16GB drive.

 

I had a problem like that with a flash drive once, I had to reformat it to a different kind of memory storage or something. I think I googled the error message or problem and found an answer pretty quickly.

[tegan]

Oh, by the way, the final version of AMV Hell 6 is out. It's significantly better than the version I posted a while back.

Torrent links and such.

 

 

 

[Codicier]

I got it, but I can't watch it. It's nearly nine gigs thanks to being a 1080p MKV with FLAC audio. My PC's not beefy enough to run that, and Windows flat-out won't let me copy it to a flash drive so I can run it on my HD box. I've never seen it outright refuse to copy something like that before. I don't know why, it's a 16GB drive.

 

I had some weird issues with opening it myself. When I first opened the file last night to check whether the download had worked it was fine, but this morning VLC stubbornly refused to open it. The error that came up showed the file as having a much longer name than windows was showing, so if there's some weird issue with the name of the file that could explain why its not copying for you (perhaps try a rename?). In the end I got it to play by opening it within my vuze client (frankly i have no idea why that worked but I'm not complaining).

[Gormongous]

Well, I finished 3.33 late last night and slept on it. In sum, I liked it, though I think it's because I liked the end of 2.22 so much.

 

Sundry thoughts spoilered:

- I loved the spaceflight porn in the beginning. That's something that the original series never had enough of and something that GAINAX has always done well.

 

- I think the Wunder is kinda stupid? I don't know, all the EVA tech has this uncanny organic quality, but the Wunder looks like something out of a different series, Gunbuster maybe.

 

- Ruined Tokyo-3 looks amazing. I can't believe Toji's dead. And Kensuke!

 

- Giving the relationship between Shinji and Kaworu a good chunk of the movie to blossom was such a pleasure, maybe the first qualitative improvement over the series' precedent.

 

- The best part about timeskips is seeing everyone's character redesigned, but we really only got that with Ritsuko and Fuyutsuki. A bit of a bummer, honestly.

 

- Wait, except for Gendo's goofy visor. I love that he apparently dresses how 1995 thought that 2029 was going to be.

 

- The ending sequence is really impressive, but I have no clue what exactly transpired. The old men of SEELE were turned into angels with the Fruit of Life by the Near-Third Impact, then sacrificed by Gendo somehow to kickstart the Fourth Impact, but Kaworu stops it by blowing his own head off?

 

- Also, Kaworu blowing his own head off actually shocked me. My friend had just started to say something about how there was more distance to Anno's use of gore in the Rebuild movies, then that happened.

 

- The movies have this odd dual effect of making Shinji more victimized and more blameworthy at the same time. If someone at WILLE had just sat him down and explained things, rather than giving him the cold shoulder, there would have been no Near-Fourth Impact. I almost miss Misato as mother/lover/other to Shinji this time around.

 

- I think the setup for the fourth movie (You Can (Not) Survive? You Can (Not) Finish? Bets, please) is really intriguing. The preview just showed more action, but I hope Anno has the courage to devote time to the implied bottle plot structure between Shinji, Asuka, and Rei as they go find the Lilin. Almost all my qualms about the Rebuild movies come from the changes to Shinji's character. He's just so passive in the series that even his brief moments of proactivity in the movies make him a stranger to us. We're only given occasional glimpses at what drives this personality shift, but if the fourth movie is built around the interactions between the three pillars of the franchise (Shinji, Asuka, and Rei), I'm sure I'll come around.

 

- I still don't know what Mari is there for. She didn't annoy me in this movie, at least.

[Codicier]

Well, I finished 3.33 late last night and slept on it. In sum, I liked it, though I think it's because I liked the end of 2.22 so much.

 

Sundry thoughts spoilered:

- I loved the spaceflight porn in the beginning. That's something that the original series never had enough of and something that GAINAX has always done well.

 

- I think the Wunder is kinda stupid? I don't know, all the EVA tech has this uncanny organic quality, but the Wunder looks like something out of a different series, Gunbuster maybe.

 

- Ruined Tokyo-3 looks amazing. I can't believe Toji's dead. And Kensuke!

 

- Giving the relationship between Shinji and Kaworu a good chunk of the movie to blossom was such a pleasure, maybe the first qualitative improvement over the series' precedent.

 

- The best part about timeskips is seeing everyone's character redesigned, but we really only got that with Ritsuko and Fuyutsuki. A bit of a bummer, honestly.

 

- Wait, except for Gendo's goofy visor. I love that he apparently dresses how 1995 thought that 2029 was going to be.

 

- The ending sequence is really impressive, but I have no clue what exactly transpired. The old men of SEELE were turned into angels with the Fruit of Life by the Near-Third Impact, then sacrificed by Gendo somehow to kickstart the Fourth Impact, but Kaworu stops it by blowing his own head off?

 

- Also, Kaworu blowing his own head off actually shocked me. My friend had just started to say something about how there was more distance to Anno's use of gore in the Rebuild movies, then that happened.

 

- The movies have this odd dual effect of making Shinji more victimized and more blameworthy at the same time. If someone at WILLE had just sat him down and explained things, rather than giving him the cold shoulder, there would have been no Near-Fourth Impact. I almost miss Misato as mother/lover/other to Shinji this time around.

 

- I think the setup for the fourth movie (You Can (Not) Survive? You Can (Not) Finish? Bets, please) is really intriguing. The preview just showed more action, but I hope Anno has the courage to devote time to the implied bottle plot structure between Shinji, Asuka, and Rei as they go find the Lilin. Almost all my qualms about the Rebuild movies come from the changes to Shinji's character. He's just so passive in the series that even his brief moments of proactivity in the movies make him a stranger to us. We're only given occasional glimpses at what drives this personality shift, but if the fourth movie is built around the interactions between the three pillars of the franchise (Shinji, Asuka, and Rei), I'm sure I'll come around.

 

- I still don't know what Mari is there for. She didn't annoy me in this movie, at least.

 

I think I need to give it a 2nd watch, but there are a couple of things I think I can comment on currently.

 

 

-Your not wrong, Wunder really is very stupid indeed. The Angels and Eva's have always been a little absurd, but it was forgiveable because they were so strongly tied into the plot. 

 

-I think Gendo's Visor is a call back to the original head of Seele's design

 

 

 

-WILLE?!!!!??!?! WTF! Yes Gainax you basically just named your heroic resistance fighters PENIS to every Brit watching.

I know a Japanese firm can't be held responsible for ensuring nothing in its production has a dirty name in regional slang, but still ..... god damn it >_<

[tegan]

In the spirit of recent Eva discussion, I've been engaging in my secret dork hobby: makin' robots outta' lego.

 

 

 

Sorry for the messy desk.

It's mostly accurate to the Rebuild movies, but I'm missing certain pieces in certain coours. The right side is mostly colour-accurate outside of the tan pieces in its midsection, liberal use of yellow as orange, and the grey parts of the knee cover; whereas its left has a lot of substitutes until I get the proper parts. I also may rebuild certain sections at some point. I actually dismantled the first head I built but I'm not struck on this one either. It also has some severe stability issues, especially around the hips. It's a shame, because the proportions an poseability are otherwise pretty great.

 

Bits that I like:

• I've tried to do an Eva-style midsection for years and only just now feel like I've got it right. I had to sacrifice mobility for accuracy, but hey.
• Even though they look like they're attached to either the arms or the body, the pylons move independently. They're attached by a swivel on a ball joint which is affixed to the body with a hinge, so they can actually one of the most easy parts to position.
• The mouth and Entry Plug hatch both open and the feet bend at the toes. No reason.

 

 

 

more: hunched pose front hunched pose back head abdomen hands feet shoulders entry plug hatch

 

 

 

And just to keep this from being a shameless plug post, here's a much better Evangelion model by Japanese builder Dou Moko, built to the scale of a Lego minifig. I've been waiting patiently to see him finish this since last June, and he finally completed it this week. It's 1.2 meters (almost four feet) tall and weighs 9.4 kilograms (about 20.6 pounds). It's so massive that all of the main body joints have to be gear-operated and attached to linear actuators to keep it from collapsing on itself.

[Ucantalas]

Wow. That is one impressive lego-bot.

[tegan]

So I watched Evangelion 3.33.

 

The ending was confusing, but the rest was pretty swank.

 

Also, seeing Unit 02's current state (and its state in the preview) was the most depressing thing. I love Unit 02.

[Roderick]

Impressive Lego EVA, Tegan! Nice to see more Lego fans here. Do you have other MOCs worth posting?

[tegan]

Impressive Lego EVA, Tegan! Nice to see more Lego fans here. Do you have other MOCs worth posting?

 

I've got a Flickr photostream for recent work (currently only includes two Wipeout-style hovercars) and a Brickshelf with a bunch of old models. The only major things I've done in the interim have been a redesign of a Ganmen that I did ages ago and a mecha thing that involved me chipping my only transparent dome. Unfortunately when I moved out of my parents' place I had to abandon about 90% of my Lego; and I've only been able to buy a few sets to try to replenish it since. It hasn't been fun.

[Roderick]

Interesting slopes on those WipeOut racers. Your EVAs have really stepped up in quality too.

[tegan]

Thanks! I always liked how the Wipeout stuff turned out. I actually made more stability improvements to the new Eva today after posting those pictures, but I think I'll wait until I've got the colour matching down before I post any more pictures.

[Codicier]

I've got a Flickr photostream for recent work (currently only includes two Wipeout-style hovercars) and a Brickshelf with a bunch of old models. The only major things I've done in the interim have been a redesign of a Ganmen that I did ages ago and a mecha thing that involved me chipping my only transparent dome. Unfortunately when I moved out of my parents' place I had to abandon about 90% of my Lego; and I've only been able to buy a few sets to try to replenish it since. It hasn't been fun.

 

I like the Ganmen he seems such a happy fellow but the Eva is definitely the more technically impressive