What went so horribly, horribly wrong?
What went so horribly, horribly wrong?
Carter Baker
Jonathan Miller
Its a remake of something that can't be remade
Justin Moore
3.0 happened.
Wyatt Jones
2.0 was just as bad, and 1.0 is just a shittier looking version of the original.
Cooper Green
2.0 was nowhere near the gigantic pile of shit that 3 was
Grayson Cook
2.0 wasn't as bad as 3.0, at the very least it left a very good setup for the next movie. 1.0 was just a super condensed version of the first what, 8 episodes of the show?
Dylan King
2.0 was fanfic tier but it still felt like Evangelion. 3.0 was so far removed that it damn near unrecognizable. There was such a disconnect between 2 and 3 and it was just jarring. When SRW doesn't even bother with 3.0, you know something went wrong.
John Scott
Everything went just right.
I believe that the Rebuild detractors can't understand what is happening in the films, because they're unable to see the very transparent thing Anno is doing.
Each film both fits perfectly into the greater narrative of Eva, as well as being an individual, metatextual criticism of Eva as a whole.
Adrian Howard
You can't just say things like that without further explanation.
Daniel Howard
Especially not in this format. The show hooked an audience with a very deliberate impression of unfolding mystery and a solvable puzzle, but a retread of old work is going to have an audience that knows the old story or looks it up or just incidentally hears about it, they'll have expectations. That can still work, you can make departures from the original work to tell an audience they don't know what's going on and get them excited for what's changed, just not in movies released too slowly to deliver on suspense and a speculative atmosphere before it dies off again. And Anno fucked up, he revealed the writing process before the ending, how the story was made as it went and points that sounded important were just created by convenience, that's poison for investment in a plot.