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silverthunder) wrote2002-09-17 09:06 am
silverthunder) wrote2002-09-17 09:06 am
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Well, life is pretty okay right now. I am writing again. Thank goodness. I get so restless when I can't write. It's really annoying.
Anyway, in anime news, I watched the 'End of Evangelion' movie yesterday. It was... interesting. Actually, I'm going to state that I didn't like it. The scenes with live-action people were *extremely* annoying, and I didn't like the ending. Everyone in the world dies? WTF...? And then there's the whole business with Shinji and Asuka. Now, I like Asuka, and Shinji's okay... but together? Can we say abusive relationship? No, no, no. I would've liked it if he wound up with one of the two angels that were talking to him at the end. Rei and Kaoru, I think. That would've been neat. But no, they left him on earth with just Asuka. Bleh. The only amusing point: Asuka pretty much made it clear that she wouldn't be with Shinji unless he was the last man on earth. And now he is. Hahaha! Take that!
Anyway. Yeah.
Next on my list: the rest of Candidate for Goddess. *That* is a good show.
I have a quiz today. I should really study for it...
Eh, whatever. I'll put it off right now. I'm really good at procrastinating. There should be a class on that; I'd get an A. Except that the teacher would probably never get the grading done. If he was an expert in his field he wouldn't, anyway.
I think I'm going to go eat my junk food. Mmm... chips and candy... yummy...
Anyway, in anime news, I watched the 'End of Evangelion' movie yesterday. It was... interesting. Actually, I'm going to state that I didn't like it. The scenes with live-action people were *extremely* annoying, and I didn't like the ending. Everyone in the world dies? WTF...? And then there's the whole business with Shinji and Asuka. Now, I like Asuka, and Shinji's okay... but together? Can we say abusive relationship? No, no, no. I would've liked it if he wound up with one of the two angels that were talking to him at the end. Rei and Kaoru, I think. That would've been neat. But no, they left him on earth with just Asuka. Bleh. The only amusing point: Asuka pretty much made it clear that she wouldn't be with Shinji unless he was the last man on earth. And now he is. Hahaha! Take that!
Anyway. Yeah.
Next on my list: the rest of Candidate for Goddess. *That* is a good show.
I have a quiz today. I should really study for it...
Eh, whatever. I'll put it off right now. I'm really good at procrastinating. There should be a class on that; I'd get an A. Except that the teacher would probably never get the grading done. If he was an expert in his field he wouldn't, anyway.
I think I'm going to go eat my junk food. Mmm... chips and candy... yummy...
End of Evangelion = End of Sanity
That movie pissed me off from begining to end. First we get a lot of gratitious violence that would make Quentin Tarantino queasy, then an endless amount of pointless psychedelia. And *everything* the characters suffered throughout the TV show was for *absolutely nothing*, because, guess what, Gendo was plotting the end of humanity *all along*!
And what the HELL was with that ending???
This was the first thing I'd seen in years that made me literally throw things at the television.
There were only two things that were good about that movie: Asuka bursting out of her coma and kicking ass (although what happened to her later was horrible), and the song "Komm Susser Tod" (which played while the crosses of light were flying up to the Amazing Colossal Rei Ayanami).
I much prefer the ending of the TV series, which leaves it open to interpretation what "instrumentality" is. I thought it was a metaphor for Shinji finally getting his head together, putting the whole experience of being an Eva pilot behind him and moving on.