"Michael Borgwardt" <brazil@brazils-animeland.de> wrote in message
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> elsie wrote:
> >>I just have a feeling that NGE wouldn't have been such a cult favourite
> >>without such sexual content to grab the viewer's attention.
> >>
> >>What do you think?
>
> Fanservice always helps - obviously. Unfortunately, it's often all that's
> needed to make a show popular. But...
>
> > I'll put it this way. As a heterosexual woman, I have had a very
difficult
> > time getting interested enough in NGE to get past about five episodes.
The
> > only episode I wanted to see again was the early one in which the other
boys
> > blamed Shinji for the destruction only  to have to take cover in the
cockpit
> > and witnessing the toll it took on Shinji. That was an emotionally
moving
> > episode. If one of the major things a show has going for it is that it
> > appeals to the penis, then that's a pretty poor show.
>
> In Evangelion, the fanservice is an add-on. And it's not *that* obtrusive.
> Why would fanservice make an otherwise good show automaticall poor? Seems
> to me like you're making a needlessly big issue of it. Of course it may
> simply be that the other main points of the show simply didn't appeal
> much to you, which I can understand.
>
Er... what fanservice?