think i'll rewatch rebuild of evangelion because a friend mentioned shikinami asuka and it's been an eternity since we saw the first three films so we don't remember how her characterisation has changed. also we still haven't seen the fourth movie so this is finally our chance

okay, time to rewatch evangelion 1.11!

tfw there's no sound during the logos so you question if your audio setup is working

instead of just re-releasing evangelion in hd with the original film grain they have to destroy culture by pointlessly reanimating it in horrible 2010's widescreen. look at how dead this still looks. in this essay i will—

oh wait oh my god this is the first time in our life that we have realised that the “N2 mine” is what you would call a “tactical nuclear weapon”. when gendou says “conventional weapons” (通常兵器) won't work, that's the implication. we always thought it was a cool new explosive

“N2” just always felt like it fit in alongside “TNT” and the like!

the earlier tweet was a joke but nearly 9 minutes in and the "remake"-yness is constantly irritating me a little. it's not as pretty and it just feels a little off sometimes, the way the shots have been changed. i don't know

it's particularly weird because it alternates between stuff that looks straight out of a 2010's anime and something that's trying to look like 1995 cel shading

but i'm also finding the particular choice of subtitle font (left) is putting me in the wrong mood. luckily this release has uh. a huge selection of different sub tracks mashed into it (don't ask), each with different fonts, so i'm just picking another one (right).

「知らない天井だ。」

it feels like things are moving too fast…

„Plan zur Komplementarität der Menscheit“ huh

the 3DCG is bothering me and strangely enough it's the opening and closing of sliding doors which is doing it, which should be trivial to animate, I don't understand

as ikari shinji-kun stares at another 知らない天井, at least he still has his SDAT player

this shot is pretty cool

when rendering that clip i didn't realise at first i had to request a downmix from 6.1 to 2.0, and in the process discovered that you can easily get a mix where there's just the background music, no speech. that's kind of cool. i think i might like to watch a whole movie that way

the rest of that sequence, with shinji staring at the clouds, has this almost ætherial feeling to it, i wish i'd posted the whole thing

I guess, without it being cut into episodes with their natural stopping points and OPs and EDs, they have to change pace occasionally to make the flow feel right

Ikari-kun über dem Nebelmeer (again)

oh lmao there's still an eyecatch in the middle. i guess that's a good spot to put an intermission. they don't do intermissions these days. they should

the “requisitioning the entirety of japan's electrical supply” thing is famously cool but i also can't help but think about how you simply can't use an entire nation's electricity supply in one place at one time because there just isn't the transfer capacity

oh they have specially laid “superconductive cables” so i guess they anticipated that!

really the coolest thing about that is the idea that an entire nation's industrial might can be commandeered to improvise multiple pieces of a solution to a problem in the space of less than 24 hours. alas in the real world even a timeframe of months is optimistic

despite my complaints i did get into the flow of it once i was maybe half an hour in. it did move me a bit in the way that the original evangelion does. i'm not sure how i feel about the positron cannon segment of the film though. it felt weak somehow

why does this film end with a kingdom hearts opening-ass song

hmm. i guess i enjoyed that? but i think i am going to sleep, and then rewatch the corresponding episodes of the original series, to put it in context for me

oh my god the reason the ending song sounds like an utada hikaru song is that it's an utada hikaru song

okay i'm gonna rewatch a few episodes of the original evangelion tv series just to have a comparison point