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The Evangelion blu-rays are out, and the busy holidays are behind us. It's time to watch the classic 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Keeping this OP brief for now. Everyone has heard of the show and if you haven't, then you are in for a treat and should just hop right in. What's the schedule? Simple: Starting tomorrow, Monday 12/28 we will be watching two episodes every M/W/F at 8 PM EST for the first 3 weeks. This has worked in the past so I figure, why fix what's not broken? On week 4, we'll watch 2 episodes on M/W/F like usual, but then the final two episodes of the TV series will be watched at the same time on Saturday. Then on Sunday, we'll watch End of Evangelion at the same time as usual. We won't be watching the Rebuild movies but if anyone wants to talk about them after End of Evangelion then they're more than welcome to do so! Don't feel like you have to watch at the specified time though, no matter what time it starts timezones will make it a hassle for someone out there. If that time is inconvenient for you then watch and post about it after the scheduled time! Tentative Schedule in picture format:  How do I watch it? I wish I could say that there's a stream out there but the show has been out of print for awhile so unless you have an old DVD set lying around you'll have to find it with other methods. It's not hard to find the incredibly nice blu-ray rips (That are in 720p and hella large 1080p flavors, for all tastes and computers). Stuff about spoilers Evangelion is an old show and quite frankly I suspect most of the people participating will have seen it already. But not everyone! I know I've seen a few posters that have said this will be their first time. So I just have a simple request: I'd like for spoiler chat to be relevant to the episodes we've watched. Sometimes you might wanna talk about something in an episode that requires mentioning future content! Just spoiler tag it and it's all good. There's a general Eva thread for everything else if you have a pressing need to talk about stuff that's not relevant yet. But likewise if you're a new viewer and you do get inadvertently spoiled then I'm sorry but it's an old, very popular show so that stuff just happens! Anything else? Just remember to have a good time watching and talking about the classic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, and be excellent to each other 
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Dec 28, 2015 03:35
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8 p.m. in what time zone though?
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Dec 28, 2015 03:38
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gently caress I knew I forgot something! EST.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:39
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I am excited for this!
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Dec 28, 2015 03:40
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Droyer posted:I am excited for this!
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Dec 28, 2015 03:46
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I'll watch this again. I can't wait to see Shinji beat up all the bad guys in his giant robot, and get all the girls!
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Dec 28, 2015 03:47
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Droyer posted:I am excited for this! e: I'm less excited about the 7.5GB of storage I have to work with. Motto fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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Dec 28, 2015 03:49
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This show introduced a lot of Australians to anime due to a combination of being shown nationwide on free to air, and being a really good show that generated plenty of word of mouth. SBS actually gave it a second time slot just so new viewers could watch it from the start.Wikipedia posted:In 1998, Evangelion was the first anime series broadcast by Australia's SBS Television also airing in prime time. News of the broadcast slowly spread, and as a result, there was an upsurge of viewers midway through the season. This led to the unprecedented move of airing the series a second time from the beginning (SBS had acquired a licence to broadcast the series twice over), despite the fact the first airing had not yet completed. The success of Evangelion prompted SBS to gain the rights to several other anime series and the two Evangelion movies, which it later broadcast in their entirety.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:50
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:This show introduced a lot of Australians to anime due to a combination of being shown nationwide on free to air, and being a really good show that generated plenty of word of mouth. SBS actually gave it a second time slot just so new viewers could watch it from the start. Now there's a country with good taste.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:56
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I have been waiting for this thread every day this week like a lunatic. Eva is easily in the top 3 favorite series for me, although maybe not for the same reasons most people like it. I kinda fell off towards the end of the haruhi one, but I'm for sure making this. I don't suppose the blu rays have the better english version and I'll have to stick with good old DVD?
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Dec 28, 2015 03:58
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Gonna try to keep up with this one using my old rear end DVDs that haven't actually been touched in like 10 years.
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Dec 28, 2015 04:14
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I never actually watched this show. I haven't done one of these since Turn A, I'll give it a try.
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Dec 28, 2015 04:17
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hoping to participate, just not sure if my data cap can handle it  i'm really glad that people new to the series are participating though!
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Dec 28, 2015 04:17
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Wow, I haven't watched Evangelion sinced I marathoned through my subtitled VHS collection* back in 1999. I'm definitely looking forward to this. FUN FACT: Young Command Ant had a crush on Asuka, and liked to imagine himself helping her get over her problems.  *: 
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Dec 28, 2015 04:24
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I won't be able to participate in this right away since I'll be on vacation, but I'll catch up as soon as I can. I haven't watched the television series in almost 8 years so I'm excited!
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Dec 28, 2015 05:23
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:This show introduced a lot of Australians to anime due to a combination of being shown nationwide on free to air, and being a really good show that generated plenty of word of mouth. SBS actually gave it a second time slot just so new viewers could watch it from the start. Yeah I was one of those people. I remember being like 7 or 8 and catching the occasional episode and it just being this strange, ethereal viewing experience. No one I knew had seen it and I didn't really know how to explain what it was. I saw it in its almost entirety in 2002 when it aired on Saturday nights on Cartoon Network - who that year also started airing Cowboy Bebop. Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop became some of my most formative TV/film experiences (they're still probably my two favourite TV shows). NGE and Bebop had a tonal range in both their characters, and their atmospheres, that I had never seen before. Within the one episode they could dip into comedy, action, drama, horror, and romance. They could make you laugh, be scared, or could even project a feeling of loneliness. It made the characters seem more human, more complex. I read a lot at that age, but there'd never been a book to make me feel such a visceral range of emotions, and it continues to be the thing that makes me most interested in anime, and more recently manga (I don't know why I've put off manga for so long). Maybe most importantly, it made me open to (and seek out) books, music and movies from other countries, and stuff that was a little strange. It wasn't solely because of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but if it wasn't for experiences like watching NGE when I did, I don't know if I'd ever gotten into Kobo Abe, Nikolay Gogol, or Herman Hesse. Which would have meant I never got into a whole other range of cool stuff. If 7 year old me hadn't nervously stayed up on Saturday night to watch NGE, would I still like Bong Joon-ho and Wong Kar-wai movies now? Or would I dismiss movies that made me feel weird, or that had subtitles? This was my post about Neon Genesis Evangelion. Its p good show, there's even a penguin.
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Dec 28, 2015 05:55
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I hope that the people who are watching for the first time post liberally. Especially if you know nothing or close to nothing about the series going in.
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Dec 28, 2015 06:04
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I've been waiting for this. The last time I saw this show was in 1999, when my friend lent me CDs full of compression-tastic .divx files. It should be a treat to watch it in good quality.
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Dec 28, 2015 06:09
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Having never watched this show is my great anime shame so this will be fun and use way too much of my data, probably
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Dec 28, 2015 06:37
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Looking forward to my yearly watch of the greatest work of the 20th century being with other people this time.
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Dec 28, 2015 07:05
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I watched EoE again recently but I haven't seen the show for a few years, so this should be good.
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Dec 28, 2015 07:54
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Goddamn it. I've watched this awful series three times now. Are you fuckers gonna coerce me into seeing this poo poo again?
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Dec 28, 2015 09:29
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Tracula posted:Goddamn it. I've watched this awful series three times now. Are you fuckers gonna coerce me into seeing this poo poo again? the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth
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Dec 28, 2015 10:44
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darealkooky posted:I have been waiting for this thread every day this week like a lunatic. Eva is easily in the top 3 favorite series for me, although maybe not for the same reasons most people like it. Since the blu-ray rips required the folks handling that stuff to slap subs on them, they slapped the dub on there too.
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Dec 28, 2015 11:34
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Yeah, this one is pretty good. I found it to be neither is incomprehensible or as transcendent as other people have said, but if I were to point to some genuinely good rear end anime with a good plot, compelling characters, and thematic resonance throughout, this would certainly be one of the top ten I point to (or top five, I kinda waffle about that). I genuinely hope that there are some people who have never seen it before joining along.
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Dec 28, 2015 15:17
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I have been looking forward to this since the Haruhi simulwatch. I watch whatever bit of the dub comedy central put on 13 years ago, but never really paid all that much attention. Edit: I play in a couple big bands, and "Fly Me To The Moon" comes up pretty regularly. I can no longer play or hear it without thinking about the show, and the way that the happy-go-lucky song was always immediately preceded by some horrible and despair-inducing development. Kytrarewn fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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Dec 28, 2015 15:53
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I love NGE- I've yet to see a series that I think is better (Though a few that come very close). Doubt I'll be posting much myself here, though I look forward to seeing what others have to say.
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Dec 28, 2015 16:12
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I watched NGE for the first time earlier this year and I'm looking forward to going through it again with weekly commentary this time. Thanks Srice.
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Dec 28, 2015 16:22
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This has prompted me to finally clear out my hard drives, and now my fate is in the hands of my lovely internet. It's been a good dozen years, I'm excited.
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Dec 28, 2015 19:59
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This was one of the first animes I ever made an effort to seek out and watch rather than just catching episodes as they came on TV. I was always pushing hard for a simulwatch and I def. want to see fresh watchers reactions.
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Dec 28, 2015 20:11
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I've been looking for an excuse to re-watch Evangelion, so I'll do the simulwatch 
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Dec 28, 2015 20:21
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Srice posted:I encourage any and all naysayers to follow along with the simul, as it could liven up the discussion I am looking forward to a revival of 2004's "While the comparison isn't entirely fair to RahXephon, it's easiest to view the series as a competently executed, intelligent, adult version of Evangelion."
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Dec 28, 2015 20:33
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CuLT posted:I am looking forward to a revival of 2004's "While the comparison isn't entirely fair to RahXephon, it's easiest to view the series as a competently executed, intelligent, adult version of Evangelion." This is a troll review, right? I've never even seen the few actual fans of RahXephon praise that show this much.
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Dec 28, 2015 20:42
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At the very least, that's what the show was trying to be, and what people wanted out of it.
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Dec 28, 2015 20:45
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:This has prompted me to finally clear out my hard drives, and now my fate is in the hands of my lovely internet. It's been a good dozen years, I'm excited. The 1080 bds take up so much space T_T
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Dec 28, 2015 20:55
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i might just stick with the regular 720p version i got when i first watched the series late last year...but dang i feel like i'll be missing out
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Dec 28, 2015 21:09
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CuLT posted:I am looking forward to a revival of 2004's "While the comparison isn't entirely fair to RahXephon, it's easiest to view the series as a competently executed, intelligent, adult version of Evangelion."
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Dec 28, 2015 22:39
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People can change a lot over 11 years.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:41
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Oh jeez, the 1080p version is 60 gigs.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:51
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I originally watched Eva via ridiculously poor quality .rm files I got off of someone's FTP server. Those were the loving days I tell you.
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