[Anime] New Evangelion Movies!

I get the feeling that this announcement may very well simply be the same long-term disappointment that the Star Wars prequels added up to be.

Adding on to something as well-established and well-liked as Eva will only amount to failure, no matter how monumental or slight. Nothing will be the original and an attempt to "expand" on the series is more or less proof that there is nothing more to be said about the original series.

So why bother? Obviously, yes, they like money - but so does George Lucas and look what we ended up with.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Someone tell me exactly what this Platinum release is about. I've see it in stores, looked at it and put it back; I already have the original boxed set - do I really need this new stuff?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

As far as I understand, the Platinum release was cleaning up and remastering the whole series so it looks a whole lot better and with improved audio. The main draw for many were the "director's cut" episodes, which added a few more scenes into some of the episodes.

What were the additional scenes? I mean, did they add anything to the series?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

this was basically the way most fans of EVA wanted things to end

I disagree so adamently, I don't think I can find the right words to make a defense. I realize I'm in the minority but I've always found the original ending for EVA to be amongst the most satisfying of anything I've ever seen in television or film. As much as I liked "End Of EVA", it felt like a cheap retread of what is ultimately the greatest creative gift a writer could ever give his story - the ability to give it a three-dimensional ending by allowing the characters an evolution to free will - a level of expanding beyond the capacity of the writer. Almost as if he's playing up his ability to create beyond his reach. (Was it Calvin or Hobbes ((not the cartoon)) that told us that "God created Man and then left"? Theres something in EVA that is very similar to that idea.)

Friedrich Nietzsche would have a fucking field day with the basic transcendant idea that the original idea attempts to grip. The whole story of EVA has faint allusions to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in that it destroys various minor Christian symbolism and then asks it's chief character to evolve past normal sensibilities that are normally moral standards put in place by our complex guilt/God issues which are generally the single foundation of Catholicism.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Qwarky

It does seem though a lot of people who liked the series (and a lot who didn't) felt confused or disappointed because of a lack of an ending that tells you what to think. Many of the more open endings seem to suffer from this.

To quote one of my favorite authors: "Tell people they're thinking, and they'll love you. Try and make them think and they'll hate you."

I was speaking idiomatically.