Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.online.be!216.170.153.135.MISMATCH!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!gail.ripco.com!wasp.rahul.net!blue.rahul.net!not-for-mail From: arromdee@violet.rahul.net (Ken Arromdee) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion,rec.arts.anime.misc Subject: Re: What is the point of Asuka? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: No relevant one Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4c199538c5miyuki@no.spam.here> <3F266C61.4090801@nathuangatsingnet.com.sg> <4c19a4167fmiyuki@no.spam.here> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.rahul.net X-Trace: blue.rahul.net 1059497589 10483 66.237.72.28 (29 Jul 2003 16:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: support@rahul.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Archive: no X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: arromdee@violet.rahul.net (Ken Arromdee) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:6113 In article <4c19a4167fmiyuki@no.spam.here>, Chika wrote: >> >>I seriously think people are overanalyzing Evangelion. >> > Doesn't that always happen with anything remotely mecha based? >> Never seen it done with (1) Vandread, (2) Mazinger Z, (3) Macross... >Look back through the archives for raam. I'm pretty sure I've seen >plenty... I don't think it's something about mecha. It's more about what happens when a series is vague and incomprehensible. People fall all over themselves trying to make up elaborate theories about what's going on. The harder it is to understand a show, the more the fans try to analyze it, even though it might just be hard to understand because it's supposed to be weird, or because the creators just screwed up and didn't explain things enough. (Both Tenchi and Eva have books written by the creators outside the series that tried to explain some of the things they didn't bother putting in the series itself.) -- Ken Arromdee / arromdee@rahul.net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee "How pleasant it would be if only we lived a hundred years ago when it was easy to get servants." "It would be horrible... We'd be the servants." -- Isaac Asimov