At 05:49 PM 2/2/2007, Dr. Core wrote:
How sad it has become, in a way I respect what NGE should have or
could have been: the deepest and most profound metaphysical inquiry
into "Truth" that anime has ever produced up to that point, perhaps
even ever after. But alas, Anno the pervert took Anno the genius into
a dark alley and did unspeakable abuses to him, and we are left with a
poorly made kiddie porn.
Yeah! Wait...what? Kiddie porn? Erm...look Doc, I'm normally the last
one to defend Eva, but how do you get porn out of it? Spineless main
character, check. Garbled religious symbolism that's largely
unintelligible, check. Stupid fans who are more interested in a
pretty mess than in a legitimate end to the story, check. But kiddie
porn? I don't even remember any nudie bits.
Ahhh... I had a point back there... right. At least I respect one
thing: Anno didn't make any sequels. He (or someone) could have made
a mint, perhaps even a Gundam-rivaling franchise out of the success of
NGE. Whatever quality or flaws there were in the original NGE, it's
not distorted twisted or corrupted by the sequels.
There is that. It's not surprising given what Eva was to Anno,
though; it was basically his way of working through his issues with
his father, and once he'd done that he just closed the book and moved on.
In the same way, G and W may end up in a higher place in my heart than
UC. Normally I would never even put G/W and First Gundam in the same
sentence, but each new sequel (Unicorn), game (Target in Sight) and
model line (AoZ) erode just a little bit more off First Gundam. For
Wing, the Gundams were shot into the Sun and we will never see another
Gundam again. For G, well technically a sequel is possible, but it's
guaranteed to be dog-puke so let's hope we will never see the day.
Heheh. I liked G a lot, actually. It was very stylized, but it still
held true to many of Gundam's central themes, and it expanded on them
a bit with a few of its own. It *definitely* doesn't need a sequel,
but I mostly thought that about SEED as well (and in all honesty, I
thought it about First Gundam as well; I liked Zeta and even CCA, and
I've heard good things about Victory, but I really don't see the
point. But on the upside, at least the sequels after CCA had the
decency to use different characters. That takes a lot of the sting
out of the whole retread of old ideas bit).
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Dr. Core
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