* I guess Episode 14 is the clipshow episode.
* Is this where all the angels' names come from?
* GREAT LORE!
* How do they know what their names are?
* They have to switch Evas for some reason and Unit 00 goes crazy again for some reason.
* "I hate this ceiling."
* THE SPEAR OF LONGPENIS.
* Oh now it's over.
* Weren't the Dead Sea Squirrels supposed to be in this episode?
* Nothing happened, now it's over.
* I guess the Eva wanted to kill the blonde doctor lady.
* As her friends start getting married one by one, Misato starts to feel the clock ticking.
* Can I just skip the next episode entirely?
* PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT SHIT, PEOPLE WANT ROBOTS PUNCHING MONSTERS.
Me: How old is Risotto Kysurga supposed to be?
Paul: Like, late thirties?
Paul: She's a little younger than Gendo Ikari.
Me: Wow what an old bag.
Me: But she's such a hottie.
Paul: Ancient auntie.
Me: GILF.
Paul: Waiiiitt.
Paul: I thought you meant Dr. Akagi.
Paul: "Risotto Kysurga" is this Misato?
Me: Who the fuck is that?
Paul: I literally can't tell who this is.
Me: Who's Dr. Akaraga?
Me: Is that the blonde lady?
Me: Wasn't she Kassurozo's college roommate
Paul: Yes and yes.
Paul: Rice-a-Rony is actually in her early thirties I think.
Me: Rickroll the sexy bounty hunter.
Me: Ok I found the part where Naked Chibi Rei flies at the camera.
Me: That was a visual representation of the Eva going insane?
Me: Shenji's like "Is this Rei's brain? ...Maybe not."
Paul: No, it's just
Paul: It scared me half to death when I was 13.
Me: Apparently his name is Shinji, I thought it was Shenji.
Paul: I thought you were joking hahaha.
Me: Ok so NERV works for the UN, and Seele is like the board of directors for NERV? And Kaji is investigating something called the Human Intelligence Committee? What is Marmaduke?
Paul: Yes yes and yes. What a mystery ooo!
Paul: Can't believe I know this, but the Marduk Commission chooses the pilots. It's a fake bureau that doesn't exist. Nerv is choosing pilots directly, based on creepy criteria.
Me: That's the Human Brain Council.
Me: Rei is like a mother because she wrung water out of a rag.
Me: "I'm glad we got to spend this time together, Father."
Me: "SON I AM DISAPPOINT."
Me: Those women longed for the touch of others' lips, and thus invited their kisses.
Me: Someone's raping a hobo in the subway tunnel.
Me: DO YOU FEEL GUILTY KISSING A GIRL ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR MOTHER'S DEATH
Me: Rei is in a pisstube with a giant spinal cord growing out of it.
Paul: The Human Instrumentality Project is Seele’s end game. It’s their evil scheme/overarching goal. Gendo is supposedly working with them to make it happen.
Me: They found Adam crucified in a closet!
Me: I thought he was in a briefcase.
Paul: They’re wrong. That’s not Adam, the original angel. It’s Lilith, angel #1, the original human.
Paul: They just keep it in the basement and use its blood as lube.
Paul: It bleeds LCL.
Paul: That’s where they get it all from.
Me: Do they not know that children is plural?
Paul: Um they’re like Italian Russians I guess? So I guess not?
Paul: Hahahahaha, I’m sorry I chose such a weird and depressing anime.
Me: ZEBRA ANGEL BALL
Paul: Yes. The angels are now sufficiently abstract.
Me: I want an angel who's like a musical note or the concept of loneliness.
Paul: Eva isn’t that high-brow.
Me: Lol Shinji got eaten.
Paul: Now he will explore the concept of loneliness.
Me: I want an angel that looks like the color inside dying.
Me: The angel's belly is an imaginary number space in another universe.
Me: The animation budget ran out again so they have to depict characters talking as vertical and horizontal lines.
Paul: 2 true.
Paul: In the last episode, when Katsuragi and Kaji were walking home the animation of their feet looped really poorly.
Me: Ganondorf killed his wife!
Me: Shinji's naked mom saved him
Me: Just like in Harry Potter
Me: Get Shinji out of the piss, quick, it's starting to stink!
Me: Oh no what is the secret of the Evas?
Paul: Yes. The angels are now sufficiently abstract.
Me: I want an angel who's like a musical note or the concept of loneliness.
Paul: Eva isn’t that high-brow.
Me: Lol Shinji got eaten.
Paul: Now he will explore the concept of loneliness.
Me: I want an angel that looks like the color inside dying.
Me: The angel's belly is an imaginary number space in another universe.
Me: The animation budget ran out again so they have to depict characters talking as vertical and horizontal lines.
Paul: 2 true.
Paul: In the last episode, when Katsuragi and Kaji were walking home the animation of their feet looped really poorly.
Me: Ganondorf killed his wife!
Me: Shinji's naked mom saved him
Me: Just like in Harry Potter
Me: Get Shinji out of the piss, quick, it's starting to stink!
Me: Oh no what is the secret of the Evas?
Paul: Like idk I’ll have to watch that ep again.
Paul: Creepy angel tho right?
Paul: Yes Shinji talks to his own self-conscious as a line.
Paul: They’re betting that the psycho babble will make up for zero animation.
Paul: I love these sequences.
Paul: The weird drum music sequences where Rei thinks about flowers and Shinji talks to himself.
Paul: Basically all the remaining angels aren’t even physical fights. Except for one, they all attack the characters through existential crises and emotions and talking.
Paul: It’s actually much more dangerous. Haha.
Paul: Yes Shinji’s mom died in an experiment.
Paul: Creepy angel tho right?
Paul: Yes Shinji talks to his own self-conscious as a line.
Paul: They’re betting that the psycho babble will make up for zero animation.
Paul: I love these sequences.
Paul: The weird drum music sequences where Rei thinks about flowers and Shinji talks to himself.
Paul: Basically all the remaining angels aren’t even physical fights. Except for one, they all attack the characters through existential crises and emotions and talking.
Paul: It’s actually much more dangerous. Haha.
Paul: Yes Shinji’s mom died in an experiment.
Paul: But if Ganondorf killed her, it must just be the memory of his mother. OR IS IT.
Paul: Maybe we should eventually keep this to one ep/day, or you can give me more descriptions.
Paul: I got work to do.
Me: Liar it's the day the Lord rested.
Paul: Keep watching if you want! Just give me more details so I don't have to watch the whole episode again.
Paul: I have a project I should have been working on but, like your average 32-year-old man, I spent my free time on Eva and Beast Wars.
Me: Is it your masters thesis on Eva and Beast Wars?
Paul: In both the 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ("Shin Seiki Evangerion") and BEAST WARS ("Beast Wars") animated series, the main character sometimes fights and there are robots. Despite these trenchant commonalities, several key discrepancies divide the two series: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, for one, has more tittes.
Paul: Beast Wars, ultimately, grounds itself in an exploration of the concrete realities of combat through the medium of toy robots animated in DOS. All of the characters must overcome interpersonal issues that plague the modern soldier: trusting one's comrades, coordinating efforts within the team, scouting out new possibilities in the field. Even though deeper psychological themes are explored (finding a reason to fight, dealing with removal from combat), the framework is a simple tale of modern warfare that is primarily interested in how soldiers act, providing morally clear examples of "good" and "evil" comportment in wartime. Neon Genesis Evangelion, though nominally concerned with a kind of "war" and with "battle," portrays these in utterly unrealistic fashion, even by the standards of animated television series. Rather, the action on the screen serves to highlight the development (or sometimes lack thereof) of the main character, Shinji Ikari, and a few side characters. Shinji's confidence rises, falls, or is shattered depending on what happens in combat, and more screen time is devoted to the emotional and psychological fallout of battle on this one character than on the giant robot fights themselves. The Eva units are stand-ins for psychological phenomena, reminiscent in a vaguely Freudian way of the protective giants that parents seem to be in one's early childhood (at multiple points, Shinji or another characters notes that the Eva's insides "smell like blood" or feel like "the womb"). The real battle is in the sick and tormented mind of the main character.
Paul: Perhaps the greatest difference lies in each show's treatment of its characters. Though Japan is supposedly a more "collective" culture and the United States an "individualistic" one, Evangelion focuses (if loosely) on Shinji Ikari's development over the rest of the cast. It is almost as if the other members of the cast, although very fleshed out, exist to interact with and challenge or hurt Shinji. Ultimately, Neon Genesis Evangelion is the story of Shinji Ikari's journey through trauma, depression and neurosis. This is as unpleasant as it sounds. Beast Wars, on the other hand, concerns itself with teamwork and takes an egalitarian point of view as regards its Cybertronians. No one character, not even either of the leaders, is the "main" character. Rather, all have about equal screen time devoted to their crises. Rattrap is trapped (like a rat) in the enemy base and must escape using his rat moves, Optimus faces insurrection or a difficult leadership decision -- and then on to the next character. Though no psyche is explored in as much depth as Shinji's (i.e. ad nauseum), characters grow from their initial one-dimensional presentation through multiple story arcs and eventually become quite complex, without one of them ever taking precedence over the others. Everybody is important in Beast Wars and devotion to the team rather than to one's own problems is often stressed as morally "good"; perhaps this is due to the work's use as propaganda by the U.S. military, which requires soldiers to work together.
Paul: Now I've wasted more time. This is all your fault I swear.
Me: Sounds like you're already done!
Paul: Nope I just hope I'm right.
Paul: Maybe we should eventually keep this to one ep/day, or you can give me more descriptions.
Paul: I got work to do.
Me: Liar it's the day the Lord rested.
Paul: Keep watching if you want! Just give me more details so I don't have to watch the whole episode again.
Paul: I have a project I should have been working on but, like your average 32-year-old man, I spent my free time on Eva and Beast Wars.
Me: Is it your masters thesis on Eva and Beast Wars?
Paul: In both the 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ("Shin Seiki Evangerion") and BEAST WARS ("Beast Wars") animated series, the main character sometimes fights and there are robots. Despite these trenchant commonalities, several key discrepancies divide the two series: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, for one, has more tittes.
Paul: Beast Wars, ultimately, grounds itself in an exploration of the concrete realities of combat through the medium of toy robots animated in DOS. All of the characters must overcome interpersonal issues that plague the modern soldier: trusting one's comrades, coordinating efforts within the team, scouting out new possibilities in the field. Even though deeper psychological themes are explored (finding a reason to fight, dealing with removal from combat), the framework is a simple tale of modern warfare that is primarily interested in how soldiers act, providing morally clear examples of "good" and "evil" comportment in wartime. Neon Genesis Evangelion, though nominally concerned with a kind of "war" and with "battle," portrays these in utterly unrealistic fashion, even by the standards of animated television series. Rather, the action on the screen serves to highlight the development (or sometimes lack thereof) of the main character, Shinji Ikari, and a few side characters. Shinji's confidence rises, falls, or is shattered depending on what happens in combat, and more screen time is devoted to the emotional and psychological fallout of battle on this one character than on the giant robot fights themselves. The Eva units are stand-ins for psychological phenomena, reminiscent in a vaguely Freudian way of the protective giants that parents seem to be in one's early childhood (at multiple points, Shinji or another characters notes that the Eva's insides "smell like blood" or feel like "the womb"). The real battle is in the sick and tormented mind of the main character.
Paul: Perhaps the greatest difference lies in each show's treatment of its characters. Though Japan is supposedly a more "collective" culture and the United States an "individualistic" one, Evangelion focuses (if loosely) on Shinji Ikari's development over the rest of the cast. It is almost as if the other members of the cast, although very fleshed out, exist to interact with and challenge or hurt Shinji. Ultimately, Neon Genesis Evangelion is the story of Shinji Ikari's journey through trauma, depression and neurosis. This is as unpleasant as it sounds. Beast Wars, on the other hand, concerns itself with teamwork and takes an egalitarian point of view as regards its Cybertronians. No one character, not even either of the leaders, is the "main" character. Rather, all have about equal screen time devoted to their crises. Rattrap is trapped (like a rat) in the enemy base and must escape using his rat moves, Optimus faces insurrection or a difficult leadership decision -- and then on to the next character. Though no psyche is explored in as much depth as Shinji's (i.e. ad nauseum), characters grow from their initial one-dimensional presentation through multiple story arcs and eventually become quite complex, without one of them ever taking precedence over the others. Everybody is important in Beast Wars and devotion to the team rather than to one's own problems is often stressed as morally "good"; perhaps this is due to the work's use as propaganda by the U.S. military, which requires soldiers to work together.
Paul: Now I've wasted more time. This is all your fault I swear.
Me: Sounds like you're already done!
Paul: Nope I just hope I'm right.
* Eva 4 has disappeared along with the entire second NERV base! Just like the Roanoke colony!
* Everyone thinks this is a disaster but Shinji's dad says as long as they have Tokyo-3 and Eva 1 they'll be fine.
* Kaje reveals that Marmaduke doesn't exist and it's really NERV who picks the Eva pilots, and the pilot chosen for Eva 3 is never revealed although all signs point to Suzuhara because he actually got screentime in this episode.
* Whoever it is, it's said that his identity will make Shinji sad, but what doesn't?
* Kaje grows watermelons because having a garden teaches you to look for unexpected developments.
* The Syndicate interrogates Katsuragi about Shinji being eaten by the shadow angel. It's established that they don't know if the angels are sentient and that they never work... until now!
* Shinji and Suzuhara drop off schoolwork at Rei's house because she keeps missing class for unspecified reasons.
* Shinji cleans up her mess and Rei is embarrassed/grateful.
* Dr. Risotto builds a dummy buttplug that has all of Rei's memories or something so they can trick an Eva into thinking it has a pilot without one actually being aboard.
* Next episode, everyone relaxes and has a good time before tragedy strikes!
* Did you know the Japanese character for girlfriend is the Chinese characters for woman and far away.
* Oh shit this episode is actually tense.
* Lmao did Shinji's Eva just murder Suzuhara?
* Rip
* Oh nvm.
* Talk about letting all the air out of the balloon.
* What a relief that that character I didn't care about survived.
* For a second I thought they killed off Katsuragi, Risotto, and Suzuhara all in the same explosion but I guess it's not that kind of anime.
* Angel 13 is the mightiest ribbon dancer in all the lands.
* They should have killed Suzuhara, Shinji just looks like a pussy for running away (again!) and almost getting everyone killed.
* They say that if the angel comes in contact with Adam it will create the Third Impact and wipe out all life on Earth.
* Is that what the angels are trying to do or is it just a coincidence?
* Adam wasn't even there when the first few were trying to get in.
* Or were they trying to get to the crucified angel in the broom closet?
* Unit 1 runs out of batteries but Shinji yells at it until it comes to life and uses the angel's ribbon to regenerate its own severed arm.
* Shinji and Unit 1 achieve 400% synchronization!!! and eat the angel's face.
* "Is it capable of ingesting the S2 drive?" someone wonders.
* What is that!
* The preview for the next episode says that Shinji and Unit 1 are now totally merged, presumably in the same matter as Rain and the Dark Gundam.
Paul: [Suzuhara] dies in the manga. Anyways, you’ll never see him again and he’s permanently out of the show.
Paul: It’s one of the frustrating and stupid inconsistencies, like confusing Adam and Lilith in the one episode. Anno is just clinically insane.
Paul: Why NOT kill him, why have him technically alive but never show up again? Only the first of many baffling decisions as the series goes off what few rails it had during the second half!
Paul: And so finally you know the plot! "Adam" (although it's actually Lilith and their calling it the wrong name pisses me off) contacting an angel = third impact. All human beings are reset.
Paul: Idk, I think Gendo is hiding Adam from Seele at this point? (Like Kaji, he's a double or triple agent with his own agenda.) So maybe calling the Lilith thing Adam is on purpose. God who cares. What a purposefully confusing nightmare.
Paul: It turns out, at the end, this was all just purgatory the entire time.
Paul: Idk, isn't that the episode where he almost kills his dad with the Eva? and then tries to punch him?
Paul: I really liked that moment. It redeemed Shinji somewhat for me.
Paul: It's the angel's limitless battery pack or something. But then they go all stupid and call it the FRUIT OF LIFE later, idk.
Paul: Yeah this show is stupid, the white blobby crucified thing is Lilith and Adam is (1) secretly still a shrimp baby and (2) not what the angels are after. They're after Lilith, who has been there the whole time.
Paul: If you think the show doesn't make sense now, wait for it lol
Paul: Yet ready for EVEN MORE LINES TALKING TO EACH OTHER!
Paul: Eva, the exciting anime!
Paul: I love that fucking fight though. With ribbonboi.
Paul: I love that fucking fight though. With ribbonboi.
Paul: Okay I guess Shinji using the Eva to break into the command room and almost crush Gendo is actually from the manga as well. Jesus the manga makes so much more sense. The show's plot is like a first draft.
Me: Yeah he just threatened to use the Eva to smash up HQ but Ganondorf just turned up the piss pressure and Shinji was like "goddammit!" and blacked out like a bitch.
Paul: "Don't pass out, little bitch" mutters Gendo under his breath.
Paul: Dude the part where the angel bursts through the wall and then fucking SHINJI bursts through THE OTHER WALL and PUNCHES IT IN THE FACE had me all
Paul:
Paul: It's fucking bad-ass.
Paul: Uuummmmmm holy shit
Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2SL36icv0
Me: Spoilersssssss!!!!!
Paul: lol that's not from the show!
Paul: Read the YouTube video description, it is an ASTOUNDING coincidence.
Me: But they actually do fuck in the show?
Paul: You'll have to wait and see, dick out!
Me: Unless the image in that video is somebody's Deviantart it sure looks like it!
Paul: Dick out!
Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2SL36icv0
Me: Spoilersssssss!!!!!
Paul: lol that's not from the show!
Paul: Read the YouTube video description, it is an ASTOUNDING coincidence.
Me: But they actually do fuck in the show?
Paul: You'll have to wait and see, dick out!
Me: Unless the image in that video is somebody's Deviantart it sure looks like it!
Paul: Dick out!
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