You know, it sounds like I should start checking out the manga. I know my local Borders and B&N both have it. Next time I go book shopping, I'll look for it.
You gotta wonder, though, just what Sadamoto is going to do with D&R and EoE when/if he gets to them. (I suspect he'll just stick with the hallucinatory ending of the series and make it a bit more palatable.)
-- Bob
[Did I like the ending of Eva? It . . . grew on me. It wasn't a happy ending, but i don't think that it's supposed to be happy nor was a happy ending "earned" (a favorite word by my playwrighting prof. every scene and payoff and ending has to be "earned") by the series. Every time someone got up, they got kicked back down.
Given that, I think that the ending was as happy as could be.
Further, since Anno was the driving force and it's his baby, I suppose if he wants to strangle it, that's his perogative. To say that he "ruined" it is to say that it took something that existed before him and tained it somehow--kind of like how you could say that, uhh, NBC ruined West Wing by getting rid of Aaron Sorkin but not that Dick Wolf ruined Law and Order.
Having said all that, it was still a pretty messed up ending, man. Yikes. Anno did not communicate what the meaning of his work was all that well. And art is supposed to be about communication.
But back to the original topic of this thread, which was Asuka's personality: I think that a big part of her personality is that while she's proud of her figure, she hates the fact that she has periods--i.e. motherhood. She is, I believe, utterly terrified of having anything about mother "touch" her, which is probably why she's so hostile towards Misato and to Shinji. She doesn't want children. Her emotional abandonment and then symbolic murder/suicide by her mother f**cked up her pretty good on that score.
Asuka's aversion to being "puppet" also ties into this, because of her issues with control. She wants absolute freedom, which to her means controlling everybody around her.
-murmur the fallen
You gotta wonder, though, just what Sadamoto is going to do with D&R and EoE when/if he gets to them. (I suspect he'll just stick with the hallucinatory ending of the series and make it a bit more palatable.)
-- Bob
[Did I like the ending of Eva? It . . . grew on me. It wasn't a happy ending, but i don't think that it's supposed to be happy nor was a happy ending "earned" (a favorite word by my playwrighting prof. every scene and payoff and ending has to be "earned") by the series. Every time someone got up, they got kicked back down.
Given that, I think that the ending was as happy as could be.
Further, since Anno was the driving force and it's his baby, I suppose if he wants to strangle it, that's his perogative. To say that he "ruined" it is to say that it took something that existed before him and tained it somehow--kind of like how you could say that, uhh, NBC ruined West Wing by getting rid of Aaron Sorkin but not that Dick Wolf ruined Law and Order.
Having said all that, it was still a pretty messed up ending, man. Yikes. Anno did not communicate what the meaning of his work was all that well. And art is supposed to be about communication.
But back to the original topic of this thread, which was Asuka's personality: I think that a big part of her personality is that while she's proud of her figure, she hates the fact that she has periods--i.e. motherhood. She is, I believe, utterly terrified of having anything about mother "touch" her, which is probably why she's so hostile towards Misato and to Shinji. She doesn't want children. Her emotional abandonment and then symbolic murder/suicide by her mother f**cked up her pretty good on that score.
Asuka's aversion to being "puppet" also ties into this, because of her issues with control. She wants absolute freedom, which to her means controlling everybody around her.
-murmur the fallen