I saw Eva, but where's Wall-E?

So, I'm back. Hi. How are you? How's the wife?

Dead?

I'm sorry....

Anyways....


So, the latest thing we've been watching is called Rebuild of Evangelion. I'm sure it has a better ring to it in Japanese...but that's beside the point.

What I was told when we started watching was that it involved giant robots and angsty teens. I was like: THIS. SOUNDS. AWESOME.

Then we started it. I was/am so confused. ANGELS? EVAS? LILLITH? ADAM? WEIRD JAPANESE NAMES I CAN'T REMEMBER?? Except for Rei. I remember her name. I don't know why.

Then it got interesting.

SPOILERSSS


EVAs aren't actually robots. They're like, these giant beings. Filled with Tang. It's...strange. They throw an angsty teen into these...things...and let them control them. Why not? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

A lot of things...but we'll get to that later.

The MC, SHINJI (remembered this halfway through the paragraph), is called in to pilot an EVA by his dad, who is a bit of a douche, but he's basically eliminated all emotion from himself in order to be able to make the tough decisions with planet destroying Angels.  At least, that's my theory.

Now, Rei seems to have no emotion whatsoever, but I think she suppresses it because she's seen so many horrors. I'll probably get called out for that one, but whatever.

So all these angels are coming to Earth and basically just destroying everything trying to get to Lillith for some reason. Shinji cracks under the pressure and just starts doing whatever he's told to do, and Rei just kinda...is.

OH. Real quick. The penguin is awesome.

Ok, back to story. So, Giant robots that aren't robots, Every big nation has 3 EVAs, and the US kinda just destroys one of theirs.

Then this other EVA pilot from Germany drops in and is a TOTAL bitch. She ends up being a HUGE tsundere and likes Shinji. Doesn't last for long though. She gets trapped by her EVA, which turns into an Angel, and then when Shinji tries to stop her, he won't do it, because he cares about her. His dad then turns on a dummy system that destroys her. Just totally destroys her. Shinji is PISSED. He gets on top of the headquarters and starts STOMPING AND STOMPING and freaking out on his dad...until they turn the power off to his EVA.

Shinji gets so upset that they killed German girl that he decides to leave the program. This is short-lived, however, because angels blow a giant hole in the headquarters of NERV and Shinji gets back in to pilot his EVA. Yada yada yada, he stops the angel.

So far, I'm really enjoying this series. I need to go back and watch the original so I can see what's going on, but other than that, I'm impressed. Bravo, Gainax. Keep on bouncin'.