BadRoad
a thousand miles
Gendo: "It's fine. This is all according to the scenario."
Advice and Trust [NGE]
Does this mean that NERV will finally get funding for those antiorbital Positron Cannon batteries they wanted since Tenth Angel showed?The Ethereals are invading.
- Location
- Land of Confusion
Just to make English grammar rules even more Byzantine.
It's almost like the English language lures other languages into dark alleys and then mugs them for loose grammar.
Dragontrapper
Homeless Draconis
- Location
- A Tower in the middle of nowhere
Hexokinase
contrarian for the sake of being contrarian
- Location
- Urban Labyrinth
I'm no musician, but I know enough Music Theory to know that Cellists simply play one note for bars on end.
It does! Yomi ni au, Pacheruberu! Do note that this is technically grammatically incorrect, since the ~u form rarely makes it intact in most sentences. It's more correctly translated Yomi ni aite, but that might be just my instinct talking.
If you want to get really pedantic, Yomi ni aeru is close, but it translates to "I can meet you in hell". A case can be made for Yomi ni aimasu, but then again that wouldn't really rhyme since the u sound is dropped in the end.
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- Location
- Head in the clouds
So, on a quick looksee at Pachebel's Canon, is it hated due to being insultingly simple, or is there another reason?
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
It's hated by cellists because cello's part is 8 whole notes....endlessly repeated. For the whole song. Shinji's not kidding about being able to play it in his sleep. It's just that boring if you're playing the cello part.
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- Head in the clouds
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If Pachebel hadn't already been dead for centuries, someone would have killed him for that.
BadRoad
a thousand miles
How do you think he died?
samdamandias
Apprentice Plane Wizard
54 times. People counted, because they had nothing better to do.
And now I want to write an omake about them singing the Taco Ball Canon, but Shinji seems like he would sing tenor, and aside from Rammenstein jokes, Asuka would probably be alto, so I have no idea who would be covering the bass/baritone part. (Gua~ca~mo~le, gua~ca~mo~le). Unless Tabris sings bass, but that would just make things weirder.
Schpoonman
They call me the Bord of Lays
- Location
- United States
I bet Tabris going full Angel could do bass.
- Location
- Out and About
Would he sound more like Johnny Cash or Barry White?
Schpoonman
They call me the Bord of Lays
- Location
- United States
To keep with the joke, Till Lindemann.
- Location
- Spain
Found a little typo that I don't think has been mentioned:
Other than that, nice piece. I think those many flashbacks feel a little out of place though, especially considering the previous scenes that this snippet is following. From what I gather, their intention is to juxtapose Rei's and Ritsuko's situations at the end there (and to explain just why Asuka would suddenly be playing the violin), but I don't really feel like the way it's done fits with the rest of 'Advent'.
If you are planning on ending this gargantuan chapter here, maybe you could make this snippet into an interlude of sorts?
Other than that, nice piece. I think those many flashbacks feel a little out of place though, especially considering the previous scenes that this snippet is following. From what I gather, their intention is to juxtapose Rei's and Ritsuko's situations at the end there (and to explain just why Asuka would suddenly be playing the violin), but I don't really feel like the way it's done fits with the rest of 'Advent'.
If you are planning on ending this gargantuan chapter here, maybe you could make this snippet into an interlude of sorts?
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Ooops. Fixed, gracias.
I've been wanting to show Shinji and Asuka playing together for a while, but there just hasn't been a good place to slot it into the narrative. I did want Rei to come back to this, though, so the chain of flashbacks.
The next scene will be Ritsuko having a long dark midnight of the soul, yes. The whiplash contrast with Rei's homecoming is deliberate. Rei comes home to music, love, and hugs, Ritsuko comes home to emptiness, solitude, and the crushing realization that this is all Gendo will ever seek from her. If I hadn't been utterly wiped out, I'd have written it as part of the update. Now it goes in the next one, though I may try to poke at ACoS this week first.
And this chapter... ye gods. I've been considering going back and breaking Ch 8 up, and making the latter half 'Ch 9 - Advent', and renaming Ch 8 as 'Fear And Loathing In Tokyo-3', but that means the work of slogging back through and changing all the threadmarks, etc, so I've been avoiding it. I figured there was enough drugs and loathing in Ch8 to support the Hunter S Thompson ref.
A humble suggestion on how you might handle the music scenes: Start the section in the narrative present, maybe with them setting up. Then move into the flashbacks as Shinji or Asuka recalling the events. (I do think this section works better all together, even though it introduces something that hasn't been referred to before.)
To end the flashbacks--I'm not sure which: Either shift back to Shinji and Asuka in the present, now playing; or jump to the Rei sequence leading to her discovering the musicians. The first, the standard method, would make more clear that we are back in the present, but the second might have a stronger emotional effect.
- Location
- Somewhere near L1... I think
This should bring us back on topic.
Apparently Asuka has had enough and decided to seize Rei all for herself. Whatcha gonna do now, Shinji?
Just saying, but I would totally read/watch Evangelion as a Western.I think you'll find that Eva threads have much less reasonable wanking
This is a an ad for an Eva card game - there's another associated with the same game that (along with a spot of old cowboy songs) put a plot bunny in my head that I've been jotting down notes and doing research for over the last couple of months; I'd have put pen to paper by now but I'm lazy as heck, and also owe more time to my family. Anyways, here's the other image:
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- Australia, mate
The Angels as a group of lawbreakers, Misato and Shinji as sheriff and deputy, Asuka as a lone ranger or something that gets roped in...
I could see that.
- Location
- Really? This field is required?
With Rei as the Mayor's reclusive daughter (obviously making Gendo the mayor with "plans" for the town). Ritsuko as the town doctor, Maya is her nurse.
- Location
- .wa.us
That's just begging for a "Physician, heal thyself."
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Or an "I'm a doctor, not a [insert profession here]!"
A Western version of Eva might work better on a Trigun-like world with the Angels being ancient war machines that lurk out in the wasteland.