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Dub....a dub for Evangelion exists? It's from the Director's Cut version of episode 24....

Yup, a dub exists of the original TV edits, the directors cut and then some. The original release even was quadlingual (French, Spanish, Japanese, English), as I used the French version to improve my skills in French translation. The English dub wasn't bad, IMHO, but the Director's cut episodes stank dubwise. I love the Japanese original TV edit, but just waiting to find time to watch the Director's cuts in Japanese. Not going to double dip with the Platinum episodes, as there have already been problems with their release and the originals suit me just fine.

Considering that in the Director's Cut episode 4, it's spelled out who Kaworu is:

SEELE: And whose salvaged soul resides only within you...

Is this in the dub or sub? I started watching the dub but it sucked so much that some of the cast would not/could not come back and were OD with different actors made me quit watching it. I have yet to watch the sub'd version, as I keep getting given more teaching duties at the university I go to and seem to lack time to watch much anime now.

[Nope, Shinji & Asuka on the shore was proof that humans still existed.

Or at least two messed up people with their fair share of human problems.

Seele never fought any Angels on their own.

Captured doesn't necessarily mean fought as anyone can be captured without a battle. Maybe saying that Seele found Tabris as an embryo and then later raised him or whatever would be better?

And of course, we have symetry with Yui leaving as a god to start the whole process of life in the end, just as Lilith came to Earth in the beginning to start it.

I thought the EVA01 shot was supposed to indicate that it was the proof that humans existed, with their own problems of the heart: relationships, lack of parents etc. being that most of the emphasis is on human relationships.

Kaworu was a clone of (who knows, maybe Kaji?) with te soul of Adam.

In the Red Cross Book RCB, it states that Kaworu is likely another Angel embryo SEELE captured. Has this changed with the new PS2 game? I always figured that since Kaworu was Tabris the Angel of Free Will, that he took human form out of his free will much like when he decided to let Shinji decide his fate.

If Adam was THE source of life then the Angels Battling the Evas would initiate the 3rd impact.

Not THE source of life, but A source of life like Lilith is what I take the dialogue to mean. Not that Adam came from her.

All Life originates from Lilith. Adam included.

No, according to EOE script, as translated by Bochan Bird Misato speech, Misato says "Shinji, we humans were born from a being called Lilith, who is the source of life just like Adam," while the Manga Video states in a possible mistranslation, "You see Shinji, mankind was spawned from a being called Lilith, just like Adam was." Lilith and Adam are equal beings who are sources of life for their respective "children." Furthermore, if EVA is based loosely on a hodge-podge of religious imagery, then Adam and Lilith are indeed equal beings in that both were created at the same time in the Hebrew version.

Ritsuko Akagi did mention that xxx room (forgot the name) which is supposedly the room where all souls are kept before they are born into babies are empty. This explains why no babies were born after the 2nd Impact.

Then where does Adam stand? Angels come from Adam and humans from Lilith.

The Room or Chamber of Guaf is what you're thinking of. Adam is the first Angel and Lilith is the second. Both are equally sources of life in the Evangelion story. The origins of Lilith and Adam are never explained and maybe they shouldn't. I would prefer EVA to have a little mystery to keep me watching it.

Even with those explanations Evangelion still makes little sense.

The only conclusion I have is that everyone goes swimming in Rei milk at the end.

Just let out a big scream and have a cold one to drink. Somethings are best left mysterious.

OK, here goes...

The Angels are just that.  They are big monsters sent to Earth to destory NERV HQ to bring about the second impact. 

Or more accurately, "humans without human form." See EVA Otaku Page

And who was the scientist chick whose mother was the NERV main computer?.

Man, lots of chicks gettin sucked into mechanisms around there.

Not sucked into the computer literally, but imprinted with different aspects of Naoko's personality. Naoko later comitted suicide when she realised that Gendo was merely using her, as confirmed by the first Rei clone (Rei I).

It's a fact Japan was working on the A-bomb, just like Germany. A U-Boat that surrendered to the U.S. ,when Germany was defeated, and BEFORE the dropping of the 2 A-Bombs,  had aboard enriched uranium and lots of German research data, it was headed for Japan. The two japanese officers that were aboard commited suicide rather than be captured and interrogated.

Look at Japan's Secret War by Robert Wilcox, and The Nuclear Axis by Philip Henshall about Japan's project to develop an Atomic Bomb in WWII. However, some objections have been raised about these author's conclusions.

Maybe it's the production, maybe its their technique for encoding, but the only FX disc's I've never heard of having problems were the 7 sets, and DYRL.

Yup, my Macross 7 and DYRL work great. I don't think trying to get a replacement for a $8 disc would be worth it, in light that stocks of FX merchandise are drying up.

She died in the bombardment of Earth.

I bought the 5 in one DVD....I dont know, my PS2 wont play it at all, I just keep getting Read Disk Errors, which isnt unusual for PS2, but any other disk I put into it works just fine...so I used my XBox, which plays the DVD, but the video quality is horrible in some spots, like most of the CGI effects turn really "liney" for lack of a better word....and then eps 4 is really choppy and it wont even play ep 5 yet..I dont know, i think I maybe got a defective disk or something.

Subs are pretty sub-par, in line with most of the FX subs that I got from their Macross 7 collection.

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Yeah, my FX set is like that too. Lots of blocky pictures, breakups, and drop-outs

in episodes 4 and 5. Maybe FX got a plant that couldn't handle the amount of data to be placed on one disc. Given light of the recent bust, it may be an eternity to aquire a replacement.

The P-51 is somewhat overrated IMO since its reputation has excedded its actual ability. I prefer the P-47D/M/N over it anytime since the Mustang is too fragile. And a P-47N easily has more range than the Mustang with drop tanks. The Jug would have made the better choice for a ground attacker in Korea too since the ground fire was intense and the Mustang's liquid cool engine didn't take damage very well. The Jug on the other hand was legendary for its toughness.

Unfortunately, the USAF couldn't use the P-47 in Korea because not enough of them remained in storage or they had been sold to other countries.

I have a copy of DYRL thrown in as a freebie when I got a LD of the movie off eBay. It's in Japanese with fansubs, but whoever subbed it had a phonetic knowledge of Japanese. In the subs, "Little White Dragon" had lines such as "Show Pilot"!

Just out of curiousity, what other notable anime did director anno do?

Gunbuster

Wings of Honneamise

key frame animator for DYRL

and recently, Re: Cutie Honey

He directed Nadia too. I forgot about that!

i'm coming up with a blank here but is Anno the original writer/creator of Eva or was it done by a committee at Gainax?

If anyone was behind creating Evangelion, it would have to be these people

See Evangelion Entry

Director: Hideaki Anno

Script: Akio Satsukawa (ep 3-10, 12-13), Hideaki Anno, Mitsuo Iso (ep 13), Yoji Enokido (ep 11), Yoji Enoto (ep 2)

Oh yeah, and FLCL. Damn FLCL. Seriously, is this guy on drugs or something? Whats up with Gainax? It's the stuff of nightmares on acid. No I don't want to watch some sort of grotesque anthropomorphic alien/human dude get beat up in the head so much that his skull cracks open so wide that giant robot climbs out of the fissure!

Ummm, I don't remember seeing Anno's name associated with FLCL in any capacity before. I thought FLCL was the work of Kazuya Tsurumaki and the staff at Gainax. Maybe the FLCL people used the same stuff Anno used to write EOE?

Just out of curiousity, what other notable anime did director anno do?

His and Her Circumstances (Kare Kano) off the top of my head.

TV Evangelion is a thought provoking TV Friendly ending, while EOE is your brain on drugs for a week. Very intense. . However, once you see EOE, you'll never look at the TV ending again. Just let out a big scream and relax.

The DVDs were scheduled for a "Fall 2004" rerelease, but they haven't appeared yet.

Well, I watched EoE.  VERY cool.  Very good.  The end was good, and in my brain I know it was a happy ending, but I still feel a little sad, and I can't figure out why.  Good movie though.

Just let out a big scream and enjoy the trip that EOE is.