Third Impact, IN SPADES!

All of a sudden ... Reis ... LOTS of  'em! Yeah ... NOW you know how bad poor
 Aoba felt when HE got piled on! Photo Credit: Tatto  Cosplayer: Zal

Third Impact, IN SPADES!


Either this is some kind of End of Evangelion cosplay deal or a very bad Brylcreem ad. "A little dab 'll do ya!"

"Mommy! ... Mommy! ... Oh! ... Wait! ... She's already here ... Sorta kinda ..."

Quit yer whinin' Shinji!

A student at work turned me on to this & I just had to share it with one & all. It's from the American Cosplay Paradise site.


American Cosplay Paradise main page here & specific here.

For those young-uns' who don't know what Brylcreem is ... here. Not that it would have helped Shinji in any way ...

Neon Gensis Evangelion: All's Not Right At Nerv here.

End of Evangelion This Is (Really) Disturbing here.

Neon Genesis Evangelion OOOO! Goodies In The Mail here.

Go to Jays' Tee Vee blog main page here.

The REI Visa: Say What!?

Come December you might see something like this (RUN LIKE HECK!).

                                               The REI Visa: Say What!?

                                                                  by

                                                                     Jay Agan

      So I'm going about my custodial duties in the main lobby of the colleges' student union when I happen to stumble upon a leaflet for, get this ..... the REI Visa. Huh ..... ?

      Students are being constantly bombarded with krap from the various card companies. As future spenders, the countrys' student population is a vast fertile ground of potential consumer debt. Debt drives "commerce" (And GOVERNMENT!) & it would be unpatriotic to have your dough languishing away in an account or retirement savings. Best get out & SPEND! You're already in deep with student loans, might as well .....

      But ..... the REI Visa? I'm sure it stands for something other than that fictional (I HOPE!) soulless creature of the Evangelion franchise. I mean ..... what is this? A credit card for the end times? A ..... "Get out of Third Impact free." card?

      I can just see it. 12-21-12 rolls around & .....

      "Forget it kid. Got my REI Visa here & ..... What the! ..... Hold on now! ...... No! Not that! I mean ..... HO-LEE! ....."

      SPLAT!

      ..... burble ..... burble .....

      Naw! Didn't think so.

Article copyright © 4-19-2012 Jay Agan

On The Rapture, Third Impact, Armageddon & All That here.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: OOOOO! Goodies In the Mail! here.

End of Evangelion: This is (Really) Disturbing here.

Beyond Wrong & Wonderful: An Evangelion/Azumanga Daioh Crossover Fanfiction here.

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Evangelion 2.0 I Can (Not) Get Into This or Is This Head Trip Necessary?




Creepy kid, Asuka and Mari from Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
Photo credit: Studio Khara

 
                                    Evangelion 2.0 I Can (Not) Get Into This

                                                                  or

                                             Is This Head Trip Necessary?

                                                                  by

                                                                     Jay Agan

Disclaimer: The following is not a misinformed review of a show I did not watch. Rather it is a reasonably informed non-review of a franchise I have no intention of getting into.

      I'm pretty much turned off by the "giant robot" sub genre as there is so much of it out there. I know there are a few good ones but as "90% of everything is krap", one hardly knows where to look. One I was urged to look into is the Evangelion franchise. After some examination, I have decided not to.

      Where does one begin with this? First we have the TV anime from the 90s. Because of time/budget constraints (And the creators' personal problems.) the 26 ep series ended rather vaguely. Because of the "defects" in the last two episodes there have been 4+ supplementary movies of rehashing/reinvention, corrections, & retellings. Already it looks like it would be too much of an investment in time, money & energy. I'm sure I could figure it all out if I got in, but life is short.

      Now there's this Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance flick out complete with a new character. Along with the previous reinventions this looks like another attempt to inject new life into a tired item. Time to drop it & move on.

      A turn off to many shows/movies for me is "deeply flawed characters" & the Evangelion series/flicks abound with them. Some more than deeply flawed. I understand, some are severely damaged psychologically &/or downright a------s. This is something pioneered by James Stewart & Randolph Scott in restarting their careers & should have ended after Clint Eastwood. Now it's everywhere. I like my "good guys" larger than life & above that moody, edgey, introspective garbage. Ya gotta be GOOD to fight the "good fight".

      Which brings me to another gripe I have with this Evangelion phenomenon. It seems (In my eyes.) that the "good guys" not only act like the "bad guys" but actually are nothing more than another set of villians to begin with. Which brings me to:

                                         The Human Instrumentality Project

      I have absolutely NO sympathy for anyone (Albeit many unknowingly.) whose ultimate goal is to meld the human race (Including ME!) into a colossal puddle of sludge. I don't care about good intentions of relieving me (And everyone else.) of conflict, pain, & lonliness. I LIKE this "simian" construct I inhabit & the individuality that goes with it. I don't care to be "one with the glop"! Do the latter episodes of the series & parts of the movies show any of the general population being assimilated? If so, are they happy with this "arrangement" or does it come on without warning? I'm not a "rapture believer" but even if I were, this is something I'd be more than happy to be ..... Left Behind (Score one for Mr. LaHaye!).

      What the heck is this? Animes' "spiritual" equivalent to Obamacare? I mean ..... is this mandatory? Can I opt out? How many states have filed suit so far? Are Gendo & that creepy Ayanami kid going to implement this before the 2012 elections? Will the Supreme Court strip out the more onerous provisions before getting slurped up?

UCC coffee. Is LCL listed in the ingredients?

      As far as I'm concerned, Shinji, Asuka, NERV, & the rest of that sick bunch can go "save" someone else. Not interested. (If it's FLCL instead of LCL, I might consider it.) One can only hope they & the "angels" cancel each other out & leave the universe (And ME!) in peace.

      As I already have Gunbuster, I think I'll just spend my dough on Diebuster & complete that saga instead. Evangelion in any form? I'll pass.

                                              Article copyright © 1-27-2011 Jay Agan

addendum:

      I have recently bought (At Armageddicon 6) & viewed Evangelions 1.11 & 2.22 & have somewhat revised my opinion of the franchise. As these & the next two films will be the "definitive" version I will settle for that & pass on the previous works. I must say the artwork excellent & plot to be fast moving. Only real technical gripe is a little too much on the "quick cuts" in the action scenes. Why go to all that trouble "drawing" everything when you can't see anything long enough to appreciate it?

      As for my views on antiheros, they still stand. At least here we don't have one weekly episode after another of Shinji doing his Holden Caulfield/Woody Allen routine. Gendo seems genuinely sincere in his desire to "help" mankind which makes him all the more a menace. You can deal with a greedy thug, but a comitted dogooder/altruist? There's no limit to the damage such a "crusader" can do to any & everyone. In his case it's the total "destruction" of mankind & individuality into a single colossal mass of nonentity.

      I would have thought Lilith to be a lot prettier & a LOT smaller than "the thing in the basement."
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