Ethan Hammond <eshammond@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3E3B5CE0.4EA3@worldnet.att.net>...
> Zatoichi wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 02:56:35 GMT, "The Eternal Lost Lurker \(and his
> > whale wang whiffle bat\)" <ell4life@sbcglowball.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >"Zatoichi" <zatoichi@zatoichi.zatoichi> wrote in message
> > >news:3e3b3306.249860465@news.la.sbcglobal.net..
> > >> >>
> > >> >> But even that, I don't see how they're gonna air EoE.. You
> > >> >> think they'd have to if they were going to show Eva.
> > >> >
> > >> >Errrr...precisely why would you automatically presume that?
> > >>
> > >> Well, since the regular TV series ending of Evangelion, if showed on
> > >> CN would probably piss off alot of people watching it.. I maybe wrong
> > >> though, thats just the feeling I get.
> > >
> > >Errr...you realize that this would be no different from the reaction the
> > >ending got in Japan, right? That's why EoE was made in the first place, and
> > >EoE pissed people off even more than the original TV ending.
> > >
> > >I'd like to think the broadcasters over here would learn from that, and not
> > >repeat history.
> > 
> > Errr...yeah. But atleast EoE adds closure to the series. If people
> > were to just see the ending of the TV series as it was, then that
> > would piss them off more I think, because it doesn't clarify anything.
> > I'd like to know where you got the information that EoE pissed people
> > off more than the TV series ending did (I've never heard that). Seems
> > to me like most of the people who watched EoE actually liked the
> > movie, despite what their initial reaction might be. Where as the
> > ending was pretty much universally hated by most people the first time
> > they saw it. But.. errrrr... whatever.
> 
> Well EOE was made just to piss the fans off cause Anno was tired of taking
> shyt from fans who bitched about the original ending.  Although Anno isn't
> right in the head and seems like an ass.

No, thats nothing but a rumor with no fact whatsoever behind it.  Anno
originally planned for the ending to be what we see in End of Eva
(granted, it would have been a lot shorter with not as good animation
and music, considering the restraints of a TV budget), with the Eva
series, etc... but the censors wouldn't let him do it after what he
pulled earlier in the show.  That, along with all the budget problems
is what resulted in what we got in the TV ending.  When Anno got the
chance to redo the ending naturally he jumped at the chance to do the
(slightly modified version) original ending.

If Anno really did make the movie to piss off the fans that complained
about him, then why was news about a movie(well, technically it was an
OVA first) out so soon after the show ended?  Why did Anno shave his
head?  You honestly think they could get those 2 movies done from
scratch the year after the show was on TV?  You honestly think that a
studio would allow a man to spend all this money on a movie simply to
piss off the fanbase?  I know its popular to say that kinda stuff
without completely thinking things out, but there's no reason
whatsoever to believe its true.