Questions Meme

[destinedforrock]

Questions Meme

As first posted here by Emely!:

1. Make a thread for yourself in this post, listing the characters you play and your own name.
2. Go find someone's thread to jump and ask them A QUESTION. The question can be anything, RP related is common, of course, but not necessary. Who do you want to app most? What does Character A think about Character B? What's your favorite flavor of icecream?
3. Answer all questions asked of you! Once you have answered, end your response with a question for the person who first questioned you. This is important to keep the discussion going and going.
4. This goes back and forth indefinitely until someone gets tired and can't reply anymore.
5. Have a lot of fun! ♥

Season 2 begins tomorrow, all, and there've been plenty of developments and new blood since the first round - get the words flowin', get to know/re-know some of your gamemates, and/or simply shoot the breeze~

Comments

[soulsborderline]

Hideaki Anno worked for Studio Ghibli for a while and took over briefly as director on I believe the Nausicaa TV series. Needless to say, shit got weird during that arc.

Anyway, Evangelion is similar to every other original anime by Studio Gainax in that it's fundamentally a story about being an adolescent growing into an adult and how much that sucks balls, wrapped up in a story built out of all the stuff the staff thought was cool when they were kids: giant robots, dudes in rubber suits fighting other dudes in rubber suits, etc.

Hideaki Anno, the series creator, was famously recovering from some serious psychological breakdown during the show, and put a fair amount of himself into the work, as well as focusing on characters' psychological development more than any other aspect of the show. Part of the reason it's considered so trippy/pretentious is how much it delves into the main character's mind, even to the point where the TV series finale is more or less a dream sequence of him coming to grips with his issues.

The other parts are that they threw in a whole lot of random Western mysticism and religious imagery they didn't really understand and ran out of money due to a severely troubled production throughout. On the plus side, that lack of budget gave us some really beautiful long stills and amazing uses of public domain music, and in spite of it Evangelion's gone on to be one of if not the most financially successful single anime in history, largely due to merchandising. Plus, it's not like the show's unwatchable. Lack of budget aside it's exceptionally solid as both a character study and a "thinking man's action show". Mostly. It gets really weird the longer it goes on, both in the psychoanalysis and the apropos-of-nothing symbolism.



And then there's End of Evangelion, which can be summarized as "everybody dies whilst I play inappropriate music."



And then there's Rebuild which I don't even know.