* Someone sabotages Tokyo-3's triple-redundant power system leaving the entire city and NERV HQ without any electricity when the spider angel attacks! He is covered in eyes that cry acid and starts burning his way through the ground to the geofront.
* The Eva pilots have to navigate their way through unmarked access corridors and ventilation shafts leading to HQ while some characters I've never seen before do laundry and drive around with a megaphone warning everyone about the angel.
* There's also a comedy B plot with Katsuragi stuck in an elevator with Kiyoshorijo.
* Shenji's father manually winches the piss capsules into place and the Evas have to crawl through suspiciously large tunnels to reach the surface.
* Fortunately they conveniently now have portable battery packs they can wear to extend their 24-second operating life.
* Shenji shoots the spider and it goes boom, then the preview voiceover begs you to make your friends watch the show.
* The Eva pilots have to navigate their way through unmarked access corridors and ventilation shafts leading to HQ while some characters I've never seen before do laundry and drive around with a megaphone warning everyone about the angel.
* There's also a comedy B plot with Katsuragi stuck in an elevator with Kiyoshorijo.
* Shenji's father manually winches the piss capsules into place and the Evas have to crawl through suspiciously large tunnels to reach the surface.
* Fortunately they conveniently now have portable battery packs they can wear to extend their 24-second operating life.
* Shenji shoots the spider and it goes boom, then the preview voiceover begs you to make your friends watch the show.
Me: I forget how the AT fields work. In the first episode wasn't it a big deal when Unit 1 was able to like punch through the angel's field? Then with the floating cube they had to borrow a super-duper giant sniper rifle from an unrelated organization to kill it.
Me: Why do regular bullets work this time?
Me: Asuka had some line about neutralizing the AT field but she just used her Eva to block the acid from like hundreds of feet underground, none of them ever got close to the angel.
Paul: You son of a bitch. The battery packs have ALWAYS had five minutes of power.
Paul: If those five minutes last for three in some parts of the series, and for like what would realistically be at least a half-hour here....that's the angels dilating time.
Paul: I think this is the point where the angels become increasingly bizarre, to the point of absurdity for one or two. You're going to miss concrete things like snakes and spiders.
Paul: AT fields can be brought up or let down somewhat. Also, some angels have stronger AT fields than others. I agree with you, this dude's AT field was piss.
Paul: But the next angel's AT field is ridonk.
Paul: Variable AT field strength is like canon.
Paul: It depends on the angel. And on convenience to the plot.
Paul: I do legit think this is like the only time in the series where the AT field doesn't fucking matter at all.
Paul: Hey
wait a moment, you've seen these characters before. They're the B-list
that shout overexcitedly that SYNC RATIO IS BLAHBLAHBLAH and THE PILOT
IS ON FIRE during every fight. (Tell, don't show.)
Me: My favorite characters!
Paul: They're v. deep milord.
Me: In
the training episode when Shenji's friends come to see him some random
girl from their class goes too and acts like she's an established
character
Me: Who the hell was that?
Paul: The class rep...Hikari?
Paul: Yes.
Paul: Hikari
Paul: She becomes Asuka's friend.
Me: Never heard of her!!!
* FLASHBACK: 15 YEARS AGO.
* Oh man it's the first and/or second impact!
* Oh it's over already.
* Nvm
* The second impact turned the South Pole into an ocean of Kool-Aid.
* This is the best angel.
* Why is he in space?
* How did he get up there?
* This is like the third or fourth time there's been a 0.000001% chance of something.
* Rei is a vegetarian.
* This is the best angel.
* Why is he in space?
* How did he get up there?
* This is like the third or fourth time there's been a 0.000001% chance of something.
* Rei is a vegetarian.
* "Even if the Evas are destroyed the children are in no danger because the AT fields will protect them."
* Boy now I'm really on the edge of my seat.
* Enormous eyeball angel exploded right on top of them blowing a huge crater in the earth but they're all fine and only Unit 1 was damaged.
* Sure why not?
* They sure love ramen!
* Shenji reveals that he only pilots a Gundam so his father will love him!!!
* Haha wait so they're testing some new computer bullshit or whatever and for some reason it requires them to build life-size duplicates of the Evas, but then one of the duplicates that they themselves built is secretly an angel in disguise!
* The angels are doing espionage and cyberterrorism now.
* The angels are doing espionage and cyberterrorism now.
* Are the angels looking for Shrimp Baby?
* Maybe not since Kasharaji only brought him in the suitcase a few episodes ago.
* The angels are made of light but also 99% human DNA and also this particular one is a computerized colony of nanobots.
* CASPER WILL REVERSE HACK ITSELF.
* I CAN'T BELIEVE THE MAGI WOULD BETRAY US.
* Her mother's brain is in the computer.
* The episode's over so I guess their antivirus program got rid of the angel.
* ARE COMMANDER IKARI'S ACTIONS MERELY THE REALIZATION OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS? STAY TUNED FOR LOTS MORE FANSERVICE!
* Maybe not since Kasharaji only brought him in the suitcase a few episodes ago.
* The angels are made of light but also 99% human DNA and also this particular one is a computerized colony of nanobots.
* CASPER WILL REVERSE HACK ITSELF.
* I CAN'T BELIEVE THE MAGI WOULD BETRAY US.
* Her mother's brain is in the computer.
* The episode's over so I guess their antivirus program got rid of the angel.
* ARE COMMANDER IKARI'S ACTIONS MERELY THE REALIZATION OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS? STAY TUNED FOR LOTS MORE FANSERVICE!
Paul: The Dead Sea Scrolls, did that just come out of nowhere or did they preface it in the episode?
Me: They just mentioned it in the preview for the next episode.
Paul: Spoooooky.
Paul: It's funny, up to this point Eva has been a fairly happy show. I forgot how happy it was at the beginning. This is the point where the series starts to go insane.
Paul: It's funny, up to this point Eva has been a fairly happy show. I forgot how happy it was at the beginning. This is the point where the series starts to go insane.
Paul: How are you enjoying the weird psychological portraits of the Eva characters?
Paul: Perhaps cool, perhaps over the top?
Paul: I think the best criticism one could level at Eva would be that it's trying too hard.
Me: I think Shenji might be my favorite character by default which is sad because he sucks.
Me: Asuka and Misoto Kasurga seem too exaggerated to take seriously.
Me: Idg what Rei is about.
Me: The other characters are mostly undeveloped.
Paul: Misoto Kasurga: Great Khan.
Paul: Grandniece of Ogadai.
Paul: What about Shenji's friend who likes OTALKY THINGS LOL
Paul: I like Misato and Ritsuko, the doctor.
Paul: I think Ritsuko gets some more characterization.
Me: Her mother became a computer!
Paul: See? Character!
Paul: Rei is just lifeless and depressed.
Paul: What a great love interest!
Me: Because she got blown up that time before the show started?
Paul: What episode talked about this?
Me: She had like an eyepatch and a sling.
Paul: It goes over the top eventually in characterizing Shinji I think.
Paul: Well, whatever, it's fine.
Me: I'm not saying he's a bad character, his characterization is just that he sucks.
Me: Which is fine.
Paul: Oh that's right.
Paul: Rei fell down the stairs.
Me: Shunji's dad burned his hands getting her out of the piss tube.
Me: She was the child he wanted instead of his loser son.
Paul: Boy, the things I would do to get a 14-year-old clinically depressed Japanese girl out of my piss tube!
Me: Rember when they all had to be naked for no reason to test the fake Evas?
Paul: Hahaha
Paul: Shinji is like, idk. He seems really whiny and everybdy hates him for that. But after a few watches I jive with him. He's just going through a lot of shit.
Paul: What's funny is half of the stuff that would be "uwu yamate, hentai~!!!" in another series aren't in this.
Paul: Half the time the nakedness is more of a vulnerability thing than a embarrassing OMg sex thing.
Paul: Well maybe 30% of the time.
Paul: And remember when he fell on Rei's tit and she was just like "......get off." ?
Paul: Okay there is a rape angel and I think it's dumb.
Paul: Rather there is a line I think is over-the-top that implies a weird kind of rape? Pisses me off.
Paul: The whole series is over-the-top.
Paul: ANIME!
Me: No one got raped in DEATHNOTE.
Paul: If you say Deathnote > Eva I'll kill you.
Paul: ANTARCTICA: AN OCEAN OF DEATH
Me: I'D PREFER A WORLD RULED BY HUMANS EVEN IF THEY WERE SINFUL
Paul: CUT OFF ALL COMPUTERS FROM CENTRAL DOGMA
Paul: CUT OFF ALL COMPUTERS FROM CENTRAL DOGMA
Me: The three biblical wisemen are the three aspects of femininity: motherhood, womanhood, and science.
Paul: Makes sense.
Paul: Which one gives you frankincense?
Me: Casper, Balthazar, and Melkor, the Dark Lord of Middle-earth.
Paul: The appropriation of Christian stuff with no understanding of where it comes from is adorable, kind of charming.
Me: Reverse cultural appropriation.
Paul: Alright where does tiny hacker virus angel fit in the angel hierarchy?
Paul: And big eye bomb guy.
Me: There are like nine levels of angels or some shit.
Me: You got the ones with four faces, the ones covered in wings, the ones that are burning chariot wheels.
Paul: There are ones that drop on you out of the sky like douchebags.
Paul: Shinji's having some character growth though?
Paul: At least it seems so for now.
Paul: Interesting.
Me: What was that guy's plan? They showed multiple craters he had already made. Did he just keep throwing himself out of the sky over and over?
Me: Is Shinji Jesus? Is that why his Eva protected him without a pilot?
Me: Will he die and then rise again?
Me: Was this all foretold in the Dead Sea Squirrels?
Me: Is Rei going to become the new Borg queen?
Paul: The creators don't understand the Bible enough to turn Shinji into Jesus haha.
Paul: It's mostly iconography.
Me: Still not as good as Naruto.
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