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Neon Genesis Evangelion 1x18: "Life and Death Decisions" // Reaction and Discussion (Patreon)

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Neon Genesis Evangelion 1x18: "Life and Death Decisions" // Reaction and Discussion

[TimeStamps] 00:00 Intro 00:59 Reaction to Show 12:48 Discussion

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Liam Polzl

they were so excited in the intro lmao

Maxime Goettelmann

Evangelion is a multi-version story. In the manga, Toji dies (And was much more developped)

Lucas Ahr

Father of the year gendo ikari

Maxime Goettelmann

Fun fact is that Evangelion was funny until now It's over

Jason Parker

AutoArchaeology lets go!!

snow

"But Ikari seems naive" is an odd translation of Hikari's line. I've seen it a lot but I don't know how accurate it is. Contextually, Asuka and Hikari have conflicting views on Shinji in that scene, but being naive isn't really that different to being clueless/dense in this context (it's an odd response to "Those three stooges are about the only ones who don't see it," in any case). I've seen other translations like "But Ikari seems perceptive," which gels a lot better as a response to Asuka's previous line, as well as Asuka's subsequent retort of "no, he's the densest of them all." Shrug. Pretty minor detail so whatever. Anyway, this episode is raw to say the least.

Cosmic Ghidorah

Yeah, you two definitely need to watch the Rebuild movies

RDA
>>192251320

The word she uses in Japanese is actually ナイーブ (naive) but in Japanese it means something like sensitive or straightforward. Asuka then uses 鈍感 (insensitive / dense) which is the exact opposite of what Hikari was thinking. Perceptive would just be a wrong translation. The translator in this case just didn't know how the loanword naive is used in Japanese and just left it as is.

Sergio Meira

And again Shinji screams... this time as the final sound in the entire episode. Shinji's screams are like Madoka's tears in Madoka Magica. A catalyst. What a sad life his father has found for him...

Sergio Meira

The eternal discussion about whether Gendō was just doing the tactically necessary thing to defeat this angel (and also suffered inside from condemning the EVA Unit 3 pilot to near death), or if he just made a decision that could have been different just because that's the kind of person he is.

Sergio Meira

Note the title of the second part, "Ambivalence" -- that's a term from Freudian psychoanalysis (which Hideaki Anno was quite interested in at the time he was writing Evangelion). This term refers to a situation in which someone has two very different, even totally opposed, feelings (say, love and hate) for the same thing (let's say, Shinji for his father). Freud also invented the term "splitting" as a coping mechanism for this situation, in which a person "splits" these two feelings, so as to be aware of only one of them, and thus reduce stress. We're at the analytical part of NGE. The narrative will mercilessly cut deep into the psyches of all our characters, their neuroses and psychoses, and their deeper motivations and problems. That's the part of Evangelion that 'gets' people. We usually feel that a part of all this relates directly to us, the viewers; I could see some of my own most intimate fears and anxieties being laid bare. To many people, it's quite an experience, a difficult one to recover from. I hope you will enjoy it, though. It develops a feeling of empathy, of how many hells people around us may be living in, without us even realizing it.

Quill6653

Toji was supposed to die. The TV censors forced them to add the line about him having vitals, not wanting to show the death of a child on TV.