Report DrSandvich's Profile

Statistics

All Anime Stats Anime Stats
Days: 27.3
Mean Score: 7.34
  • Total Entries317
  • Rewatched0
  • Episodes1,555
Anime History Last Anime Updates
Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru
Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru
Mar 8, 12:30 PM
Plan to Watch · Scored -
Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai
Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai
Mar 8, 12:27 PM
Plan to Watch · Scored -
Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Season 2
Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Season 2
Mar 5, 11:17 PM
Watching -/13 · Scored -
All Manga Stats Manga Stats
Days: 0.0
Mean Score: 0.00
  • Total Entries0
  • Reread0
  • Chapters0
  • Volumes0
Manga History Last Manga Updates

No updates yet.

All Favorites Favorites

Anime (8)
Character (1)
People (6)

All Comments (1) Comments

Would you like to post a comment? Please login or sign up first!
AXxoN-N Mar 15, 2023 12:07 AM
Oh boy. I don't really post reviews here with the expectation that I get reviews of my reviews. Sorry for taking so long to respond, I rarely log in.


I mean, point taken on the nitty-gritty corrections like Impact vs. Instrumentality, and I don't want to say that doesn't matter and it's just semantics, but the thrust of my review was more to do with my emotive response. There are more precise ways to have written about the film, but I wrote about the film in the way I felt it deserved, which included a bit of thumbing my nose.


I think you take me to be more of an apologist for the old material than I am, and I hoped to have made it clear that I detect flaws in the old material and that the two have plenty of similarities. I don't however particularly enjoy the seemingly constant pushback on NTE criticism that boils down to "actually NGE wasn't any different in X or Y regard at all, therefore your opinion is actually just emotional instead of factual and you're wrong," which is a bit of a hypocrisy, given that it seems to me an emotional thrust actively dodging the absurdity of its premise, the idea that the differences and similarities between the two are anything but relative. Time and again rebuttals to any dismissal of Thrice are to say "but that was true for NGE too," omitting the important and pretty obvious detail that there's the issue of how true and how exact.


I don't make the argument that the old material, for instance, didn't have technobabble. I do however claim to find it more successfully incorporated or at the very least less of a massive distraction, per a couple of my review's ending paragraphs.


I don't want this to become a checklist of countering your counters, but some that popped to mind:


The gripes about the suits is because they're, you know, more elaborate and more prevalent. By the end of NTE Asuka has like, 4 suits, one of them with less than 2 minutes of screentime. And like I said, everyone gets a sexy suit. It's an order of magnitude.


I'm not sure you understand my gripe with the wishing away of the Evas, or maybe I don't understand your viewpoint. You say they represent the potential for destructive, escapist wishes and so they deserve to be removed whole-cloth. But then is Shinji's wish to do away with vehicles for the wishing away of destructive, escapist wishes itself a destructive, escapist wish if it could only happen because of Eva units existing? I just don't think it really manages to mean much of anything or make sense beyond the resemblance to Anno's act as a screenwriter of deciding to negate things in a way only afforded by the decision to metafictively penetrate your own narrative. But l don't see what it accomplishes beyond doing just that--introducing a meta element. It doesn't feel like an effort was made to extend the logic any further. If the character triumphs were already set in stone, and the world could move on from Eva units without literally wishing them away, then why bother doing so? Was it truly dramatically necessary?


Not sure what you're arguing regarding Shinji and Gendo. You seem to just be summarizing what literally happened.


In my complaints about the spears, I'm not denying that you can trace their rules back to Q or that they literally came from nowhere, just that they virtually did and that it's not well established. You open by saying you agree with my complaint about pacing--well, I don't really separate that from my gripes with the lore. Most of my problems come down to pacing. Again, my argument isn't that NGE didn't have nebulous lore, just that it was at least set up and reached a head far, far more comprehensively, justifiably and satisfyingly. S2 engines had entire episodes setting them up, they weren't something glossed over with only a time-skip to point to as retroactive explanation. And be that as it may, time limits aren't entirely jettisoned as an aspect of the logical or thematic framework--quite the opposite, Asuka's battle against the MPE's is a brilliant way that the plot actually utilizes what it already laid out, and uses it to service not only a character beat, but work as the basis of a rising/falling dramatic structure. Compare that to the battles in Thrice which operate on zero restraint and no grounding logic beyond exploding as many things on-screen as possible.


I don't intend to seem dismissive either, I'm just not sure your supporting arguments flow into your conclusion. I don't see how the specific corrections of my criticisms argue for NTE's supposed depth, you just maintain that it exists.
It’s time to ditch the text file.
Keep track of your anime easily by creating your own list.
Sign Up Login