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I laughed WAY too hard

A few months ago, Jygg made a pretty straightforward facebook post.

"Its 2015. Suppose i should get around to watching Evangelion."

Knowing that Jygg is much like our mutual Blokenstein friends, in that they can rarely pass up giant monstrosities beating the snot out of each other, i was a little surprised that he had waited this long.  Then again, everyone and their mother would warn against Whingy- Sorry, Shinji- and that can turn everyones nose up at it like spoilt milk.  Not that i can blame them.

Worse yet, the last couple of episodes were a train wreck, so the first thing i said to him was to find a way to dodge those and get the End of Evangelion film, since that gives a proper ending.

It got me to thinking though.  A few years ago, there was a reboot that richard had in his collection.  Now forgiving its shitco- sorry, shortcomings- i really quite like Evangelion so I gave it a crack.  I wasnt really disappointed.  In a movie length time, it covered all the basics and changed things up enough to make it feel fresh, rather than just the same old guff.  New visual touchups put it into a darker, and smoother, light; and it really hastened the pace from the original show.

It left me excited to see the next movie, but alas it was a long time away before they would release it.  Since then, i kept a stray thought to the show and delved through online wiki pages to learn more about the Angels and the other behind-the-scene characters and events.

Naturally, Jygg posting about watching it for the first time, and i figured i might see what i can get from Netflix or Hulu.  Sadly the show isnt available through the Apps, but the DVDs are in Netflix.

Just quickly: Netflix is a godsend.

So i put my request in for the first and second DVDs and now im waiting for the third to be available, and now i can see where it really changes up the story.

I had started from 1.11 and plagued through it a few times so that I could pick up on all the nuances that cropped up.  Then one time for the fan service, which was surprisingly not that flagrant.

Then I got 2.22 (or whatever it is, fuck knows why they're doing like that) and immediately began with a story as far off from Tokyo-3 to the tune of a bat shit crazy girl singing along lile sjes goong to school while in a quadrapedal Eva with a lance.

Immediately I sat up wondering where the show was going to deviate and I was happy to find that aside from the overlying tone of deceit from the higher ups and the naivety of the kids, it was practically unfamiliar territory. A new show even, providing information that I didn't know before.

Like, did you know that the entire southern hemisphere is uninhabited, and flooded with blood?  Cos the oceans all turned to blood from the impact on Antarctica.  That completely went over my head in the original, if that was a thing that came up.

The end of the mini movie left things up in the air for me. While there are elements from the original show used in the leadup, I really want to know what's going to happen.  I just have to wait for episode 3.fkn-whatever-it-is to come out for Netflix DVD collection.

I expect this to be part of the next episode.