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⌈ Secret Post #735 ⌋

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[Milk]

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[Without A Trace / NCIS]

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106. [repeat]

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[Denis Leary]

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[Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.]

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[Alexander Semin/Alexander Ovechkin]

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[Gaki no Tsukai]

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[Grey's Anatomy]

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[Detroit Metal City/Macross Frontier]

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[Evangelion]

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[Kodomo no Jikan]

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[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Augustus Gloop]

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[Dr Who/Torchwood]

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[Team Fortress 2/Imagination Movers]

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[Top Gear]

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Amor Real]

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[Kingdom of Heaven (King Baldwin IV)]

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[Chronicles of Narnia]

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[supernatural, sam/ruby, sam/madison]

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150. [not fandom]

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[true love at 14]

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[Sinfest]

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[Narcissa Malfoy (Helen McCrory)/Harry Potter]

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[Naruto, ShikaIno]

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[Soul Eater]

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[Supernatural, Sam/Jess]

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[Life]

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[The Monkees]

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[Peep Show]

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[Film blogosphere, David Poland and Jeff Wells]

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[Richard Herring and Andrew Collins]

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121 - I'm no anime connoisseur, but I've watched my fair share of shows. Everyone and their mother recommended Evangelion to me as one of the best anime shows ever. My boyfriend and I watched it over the course of a month. I'm sure we would have finished it sooner had it not been so horrible. I thought the plot was scattered and weak, at best. The characters were flat and even unlikeable. The writing was not hot. It was just a mess of a show, and I felt like it had been done in a half-assed sort of way. So, don't fret too much over not liking it or being able to watch it. I think it stinks, and I'd probably pay good money *not* to have to watch it again.

My problem with it was that I had been given the impression by the fandom that there were genuinely interesting elements of philosophy and mysticism in the show. So I went through it watching for that. While there was some, it was SO FRIKKIN' BAD - and what wasn't just awfully done was simply wrong. I ended up having to pause the DVD at one point and yell at the screen for five minutes because it was so obvious that neither Seele nor NERV had a single clue what they were doing from a mythic perspective.

I once had the plot of Evangelion described to me as such:

It's like someone took the Bible, a book on mysticism and an angsty teen novel, ripped all the pages out, threw them in the air and picked ones out at random. AND THEY WERE RIGHT.

But say you don't like it? That you think the plot wasn't well done, the characters flat and unlikable and the ending MADE NO SENSE WHATSOEVER? Most places will be down your throat so fast with the "You don't understand the genius!" and "But Rei-chan is so perfect!" "Shinji is so realistic!" and then brush you off like you don't know anything about anime. I have watched a good bit of anime, I do like good, deep metaphysical plot and realistic characters. But Evangelion is none of these things.

Sorry for going off in your comments like that, but UGH. Yeah, pet peeve of mine, especially since my brother-in-law (someone whose opinion I otherwise value when it comes to anime and movies) loves Evangelion and Rei.

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