New Evangelion Movie Tetralogy
10 July 2007
This really shouldn’t be considered news anymore, it was first announced back last year. However, it just occurred me today that they were making new NGE movies, Rebuild of Evangelion! I didn’t really freak out from excitement, I wasn’t overly ecstatic about the whole deal, I actually panicked somewhat.
It was so emotionally laborious a task to get through the entire series and the original movies, not to say that it wasn’t worth it. But it was comparable to trekking up a mountain, carrying ninety-five pounds of equipment. Just when you think you’re ready to rest, they tell you to get ready for another two or three mountains. I spent the majority of the twenty six original series confused and vexed as to exactly what the hell was going on!? I spent the entire movie screaming “Oh my dear god, oh my dear god! Did you see that?!”
After it was all done, after extensive contemplation regarding Evangelion as a whole, regarding Shinji, Asuka, Rei and everything else, I felt indecently satisfied with my Evangelion experience, ready to proclaim to the world, “I had no bloody idea what the hell just happened, but goddamn! It was good!” Like closing the book on the series, leaving it to collect dust in my non existent attic of an external harddrive, to feel an immense sense of accomplishment that I lived through all of that deep, thought provoking, philosophical banter.
The “Rebuild of Evangelion” struck a deep chord of fear and anxiety in my heart. Alright, I’m just over exaggerating there, but it’s equivocal to bringing my grandfather back to life to haunt me. I’m still exaggerating. Frankly, I’m half looking forward to it and half wanting to kill the person who brought this lumbering ghost back to life. Half of me knows that it will be so damn good (it’s from Gainax, ‘course it’s good, heh) that I’ll be a fool to miss out on it. Half of me doesn’t want to know and simply flee in sheer terror. Ignorance is bliss, they say and sometimes I’d like to stay in my quagmire of ignorance and wallow in my false bliss.
But, reality calls. Ambiguous towards this new tetralogy, I’m ready to strap on my excessive amount of armor and conquer two or three more mountains. I await, on the verge of suffering from a heart attack, Evangelion’s final curtain call.
I just hope these things aren’t identical to the series. That would just be completely pointless. Although they are saying the fourth film, which is really just the second half of the third film (note, this is actually a trilogy), will have an all new ending. That should be kind of cool. If only I had a plane ticket to Japan…