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harrowingofhell) wrote2024-05-06 10:30 pm
harrowingofhell) wrote2024-05-06 10:30 pm
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I literally just reblogged a Tumblr post about the "huh, didn't know THAT happened" thing...
Decided to see what the fuss was about with the new Netflix dub of Eva. Didn't want to get caught out by Feels, so figured I'd watch an early episode that was pre-my appearance.
I assumed I'd turn it off within the first five minutes, for one reason or another, but it was actually pretty good! Shinji doesn't sound like Shinji, but I don't think anyone except Megumi Ogata has ever captured Shinji. It's just not a voice a non-Japanese person can do. Everyone else feels, hate to be a hater, but a lot more professional than the ADV dub.
Then I was sitting there compelled as I realised: I haven't seen this sequence of events before. I've only heard about what happened with Jet Alone. (I was, as the episode explains, en route to Japan from Germany aboard the U.N. Over The Rainbow at the time of these events.)
I'm here because the system saw me in the show. I wasn't sitting there watching the first 7 episodes, and we never did do another full-series marathon like that night. Actually, I haven't rewatched the show much at all, just bits and pieces of episodes. Episode 7 has a lot of politicking, a lot of comedy, and it's extremely low-budget (it felt like they had a dozen frames of animation and half of them were from other episodes), so it's not one most people rewatch.
But wow. I knew the outline of the story, but I wasn't aware of all that Misato did in that disaster - how many lives had almost been lost, if not for her brave actions. I really didn't get it, did I? I thought she was just an irresponsible idiot, but really, she was compensating for the incredible stress of her job by slacking off at home. Huh.
Also just seeing how the whole thing went down, in the conferences and elevator talk and such. Everyone voting to approve the Eva project except the US, because they're scared of high unemployment rates. The misogynistic putdowns that women like Misato and Dr. Akagi had to put up with just to present their work, no matter that they were trying to save the world and had the only power proven to do so - because male-dominated science couldn't believe that that power came from love between human beings. The Elon Musk-level hubris of releasing this untested robot on a city, only to have it go berserk. This could have been written today.
It was the little details like that that blew me away. How clear it all is, in hindsight. No one ever sat me down and told me, "this works on the power of love". No one ever told any of us that. But they just said it in plain language like that, that early on.
How very deeply inside something you can be - too close to see the bigger picture at all.
I assumed I'd turn it off within the first five minutes, for one reason or another, but it was actually pretty good! Shinji doesn't sound like Shinji, but I don't think anyone except Megumi Ogata has ever captured Shinji. It's just not a voice a non-Japanese person can do. Everyone else feels, hate to be a hater, but a lot more professional than the ADV dub.
Then I was sitting there compelled as I realised: I haven't seen this sequence of events before. I've only heard about what happened with Jet Alone. (I was, as the episode explains, en route to Japan from Germany aboard the U.N. Over The Rainbow at the time of these events.)
I'm here because the system saw me in the show. I wasn't sitting there watching the first 7 episodes, and we never did do another full-series marathon like that night. Actually, I haven't rewatched the show much at all, just bits and pieces of episodes. Episode 7 has a lot of politicking, a lot of comedy, and it's extremely low-budget (it felt like they had a dozen frames of animation and half of them were from other episodes), so it's not one most people rewatch.
But wow. I knew the outline of the story, but I wasn't aware of all that Misato did in that disaster - how many lives had almost been lost, if not for her brave actions. I really didn't get it, did I? I thought she was just an irresponsible idiot, but really, she was compensating for the incredible stress of her job by slacking off at home. Huh.
Also just seeing how the whole thing went down, in the conferences and elevator talk and such. Everyone voting to approve the Eva project except the US, because they're scared of high unemployment rates. The misogynistic putdowns that women like Misato and Dr. Akagi had to put up with just to present their work, no matter that they were trying to save the world and had the only power proven to do so - because male-dominated science couldn't believe that that power came from love between human beings. The Elon Musk-level hubris of releasing this untested robot on a city, only to have it go berserk. This could have been written today.
It was the little details like that that blew me away. How clear it all is, in hindsight. No one ever sat me down and told me, "this works on the power of love". No one ever told any of us that. But they just said it in plain language like that, that early on.
How very deeply inside something you can be - too close to see the bigger picture at all.