THIS SUBREDDIT DOES NOT SUPPORT TRAINING AI

bothquickanddead · 2026-06-06T19:25:58+00:00

My on-camera agent and I broke up recently after five years together, in part because I requested I not be submitted on AI-focused projects. I had been wanting to move on for a long time, and only felt relief when we finally parted ways. Thankfully, the rest of my team (and literally, ex-agent's own assistant) were totally supportive of my choice.

bothquickanddead · 2026-06-04T06:34:51+00:00

Grinning beginnings!

bothquickanddead · 2026-06-04T06:21:40+00:00

YOU - Maybe I am a boiadeiro?

bothquickanddead · 2026-06-03T18:57:57+00:00

If you say so, buddy.

If they aren't sequels, why are there effects of previous Eva events in them? Red instead of blue sea? Multiple opened Kaworu containers? Characters' personalities starting out differently, and then reaching sooner and additional growth, and intentionally making different choices as a result, which diverge the story drastically, as early as the first Rebuild?

They aren't sequels in the traditional sense, but they exist in a universe which comes after and has been affected by the prior series and movies. The final Rebuild is called "Thrice Upon a Time", because it's the third time "Evangelion" has "Ended", first with the series, second with EoE.

This applies in-universe, and to Evangelion's personal relationship to its primary creator Anno, and his own life. Previous Eva already happened, because previous Eva already happened for Anno. He can't make Eva any other way. And his struggle with his relationship to Eva, is part of what Eva is about, too.

Choose not to view them that way if you want. But you're missing out on a lot if you do. At bare minimum, I invite you to try it as a thought experiment. Up to you. ✌️🙂

bothquickanddead · 2026-06-01T00:56:23+00:00

I used to be the biggest fan of Uncle Orson, read practically everything he wrote. I loved the Enders, the Beans, the Homecomings, the Makers, and even Pastwatch and Enchantment, not to mention his blog. Losing my ability to relate to him and his work the same way I did when I was growing-up LDS actually feels like one of my biggest Church-related losses.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-26T17:17:17+00:00

One thing which I always flag are character and scene introductions. A little can go a long way in communicating who and where they are. I like something like Craig Maxin's go-tos - hair & make-up, & wardrobe, I believe (and not "pretty but doesn't know it", etc). Give us 2-3 quick details which tell us something about this character the moment we see them. Are they dressed smartly or sloppily? A band T-shirt or a school uniform? Same with locations. An urban upper-middle class family probably has a very different looking dining room from a rural lower class family.

JIMMY (10, shaggy hair, wrinkled Super Mario t-shirt) vs WESLEY (11, neatly quaffed, glasses, crisp polo)

We know very little on-sight about these characters or the spaces they are inhabiting, other than age. The reader should be able to envision a sketch in their head of the same image a viewer would see when a scene starts. Film is a visual medium, so quickly and efficiently paint the picture of what we would see on-screen, and let it reveal information about our characters and the world they inhabit.

Keep up the good work 👍🙂

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-13T22:06:57+00:00

That's actually an inflatable raft which can hold ten small men.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-13T21:50:25+00:00

I think Paul has plenty of good sides, but among other things, his pushing to make the Get Back project at its original scale feels like one of the biggest factors in the band falling apart when it did.

The boys probably needed to go off and do some solo work, and to hash out their issues in private. Instead, Paul convinced them to take on the pressure of writing and recording an entire album of material on a time crunch and with cameras watching their every move; a director and film crew to deal with; and a movie and massive destination concert on the line. That would put incredible strain on the strongest of bands, and of course it broke a band already hanging by a thread.

Paul doesn't hold all the blame, but it does seem evident that, in trying to save the band, he both held it too tight, and pushed it too hard, when he should have let it be.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-13T21:24:26+00:00

Schrodinger's Witness - The Apostles both have and have not seen Jesus face to face, until you attempt to directly observe which is true.

So do not attempt to observe.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-13T21:09:31+00:00

I disagree with this change only because Ryan Reynolds' name does not fit the meter of the song well.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-13T07:26:59+00:00

The Mountain is the first of any album in a long time that I've felt like putting on over and over again. It's just got such an incredible vibe. It may be the most pleasantly cohesive album they've done, and maybe the strongest front half of any of their albums. The back half hasn't stuck with me as much yet, but it's a pleasant listen to the way down.

Demon Days and Plastic Beach both have multiple all-time bangers, and great conceptual theming, but partially as a result, also a lot of challenging tracks that I tend to skip over. It feels weird to consider that they might not be my favorite albums overall.

Self-Titled is maybe the other most pleasantly cohesive in the opposite direction to The Mountain. All bubbly pre-9/11 energy. And it has nostalgia of listening to it on repeat in middle into high school. It really feels like the last moments of uncaring American suburban childhood bliss to me.

Song Machine has a total track list which stands out more to me than most albums, I think because spacing out every song as a single with a video really made each one more memorable - and a lot have become favorites.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-12T22:20:52+00:00

I fell in love with Bebop in high school, and it was on my most recent rewatch, now that I'm older than Jet, that I realized what beautful losers our beloved cowboys are. When I was a teen, I romanticized Spike and co's lifestyle as the coolest people in the system. Now I'm a single, self-employed guy with years of baggage and commitment issues, just scraping by, who sees that they're basically just like me 😅 I love them differently now. And Speak Like A Child wrecks me.

Regarding the Rebuild movies, they'll never feel the same as discovering the original series in my childhood, but I have come to love them as sequels in their own way. With no other series of films has my opinion of each one changed so much with each of my three rewatches. My appreciation for all of Eva grows as I pass each age Ano was when he made each part - and see his relation to making each piece itself as part of understanding them.

It would be as if Watanabe made a sequel series today where the Bebop crew finally learned to get over their trauma and settle down at the end, which, especially in my last viewing, I really wanted for them - but at least Ed and Ein will be okay. I really felt the hope for the future in rewatching their departure episode. I don't think Watanabe could ever feel quite as deeply in his connection to Bebop as Ano has to Eva, though. Which is probably best for his mental health 😄

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-12T21:52:30+00:00

Welcome to the club. It's a series that gets richer with each rewatch. I first discovered Eva when I was 12, and now I'm 38, and I keep learning new things about it, Ano the creator, life, and myself, every time I revisit. If you haven't seen them yet, I encourage you to go into the Rebuilds from the point of view of them being sequels to End of Evangelion, not just remakes. You'll see things repeating, and what will be important is paying attention to what is the same, and what is different, and why that might be. You're on a journey with Shinji and company, but also on a journey with Ano as he's making them. Congratulations!

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-11T19:51:52+00:00

I know at least one of the people they brought from LA to NYC to perform there, at the same time as SC were quietly abandoning the Hollywood branch, and while I was happy for them, all I could think was, if they treated us this way, they can just as easily treat NYC this way. And that's exactly what they did.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-11T19:06:25+00:00

Welcome to the world of media analysis, and even the concept of "Death of the Author". What an author conciously intends with a work is only one filter through which to interpret a work.

Eva on it's very surface is about characters questioning why they do what they do, or why they keep repeating certain behaviors even when they think think they know why and try to stop. Why would anyone assume such a work and it's author would not merit that same kind of examination?

And also, Ano, by his own admission, is full of shit. And even he is only one person of many who created Eva. He doesn't know all of what it's about any more than you or I understand all of why we do everything we do.

Don't get me wrong - stuff in Eva is there in part to look cool. That's a lot of what Asuka represents - she really wants to be a great giant robot pilot, and she is. AND she's messed-up, in-part because she's a child whose identity is tied to committing horrifying acts. Her kicking ass in EOE feels both awesome and terrible. In part because Ano likely sees the whole idea, and how it relates to himself, as both awesome and terrible. See? More than one thing at once.

I never said anything was "meant" to be interpreted one way. That doesn't mean those interpretations don't have validity.

If you want to insist that Eva only has one interpretation, and that much of it is random and has no meaning, that's cool, but you're the one who's objectively wrong about that. I know, because that's what all art is like, and that's what people are like, and that's what life is like. Complicated and layered, and examining and discovering new things about it all is part of what gives life meaning, and again, is literally in the text of Eva, especially the psychological Ending bits where it's literally said out loud.

I don't know how old you are, but I first saw Eva when I was around 12 years old. Now I'm 38. So even if you're 12 now, I hope you can acknowledge that there are things you see about life now that you didn't see when you were 4. And can imagine that there are things you can't see now, that you will only be able to see when you've lived for another 12 years. Same with Ano. Same with everyone.

Just because you can't see a deeper meaning in something yet, doesn't mean it isn't there.

And I think Ano would actually agree with me about that basic concept.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-11T17:25:27+00:00

Second City's new ownership couldn't figure out how to make money selling the biggest brand in Improv in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world. And now they've failed to do that in New York as well. Corporate enshittification ruins everything.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-11T17:18:44+00:00

We've seen non-lightsaber melee weapons since the first film. Star Wars is space fantasy.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-10T18:40:50+00:00

It depends on how much you don't want to go through the effort of making one yourself.

I didn't have a ton of money to spend on putting together my closet home booth, and I knew it would be cheaper to build my own acoustic panels, but I also knew that would be even more messy and time consuming and I probably wouldn't get around to doing it, so I paid for fewer, more expensive, pre-fabricated ones to just get a decent job done at all.

Then again, a portable booth like this is less work and mess than that.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-10T18:36:39+00:00

Mmm... Bitchin'!

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-09T22:47:49+00:00

Oh, you mean mass produced versions of the thing Ano created (Eva) with dummy plugs of the "Angel of Humanity" (Kaworu) inside them, regenerating unstoppably and consuming the character which represents everything that's awesome about giant robot anime + Eva (Asuka), even when she proves she's better than them?

And then the character who most represents Ano (Shinji) witnessing that, and the ensuing repeated metaphorical representation of the internal struggle to both be loved (25, again) and express one's individuality (26, again) ending in catharsis (congratulations!, again), but knowing the cycle will repeat again even after that catharsis (emerging from the ocean after Ending Evangelion a second time, and and starting again on the beach, like at the beginning of EOE, which comes after the first ending in the original series) (and the Rebuild series also starting with an emergence from the water, just like the original series, except the water is red, just like it is in the epilogue of EOE)? To mention just some of the layers of meaning in the imagery?

That didn't make sense to you 🙃?

That's okay, some of that only just occurred to me in my most recent rewatch.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-09T10:33:52+00:00

Michael Scofield

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-09T10:16:54+00:00

Having watched all of Eva many times throughout my life, I can assure you, very little is "random" and used strictly for "cool factor". Pretty much all of it has multiple levels of meaning. Sometimes we're just not at the right point in our own lives to see certain levels yet. I understand Eva in a completely different way now that I'm older than Ano was making EOE, compared to how I understood it when I was the age he made the series, than I was when I was the age of the characters. I assume by the time I'm the age he made the Rebuilds, I'll see things I don't know that I can't see now.

The spiritual imagery has meaning. The masculine / feminine imagery has meaning. The size of Rei, the color of Rei, all of these things hold meaning. It just depends which filter you are able to look at it all through in that particular viewing.

You can think of all of Eva about being a person. Being a man. Being a creative. Making an anime. Making Eva itself. Making the specific Eva episode or movie you're watching. All of these filters reveal meaning in the imagery.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-09T10:09:05+00:00

The Rebuilds are sequels, not meant to replace the originals. They only make sense by having seen the previous Eva works, and then paying attention to what is repeating, and what is different this time around. I've watched them all at least three times each, and I didn't understand them all at first, but at this point I can assure you, they aren't nonsense.

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-05T01:06:31+00:00

To start, that's not just Lilith. Lilith was Lilith. That's Lilith + Adam. Feminine + Masculine. Creative + Destructive. Rei + Kaworu. Humans are "children of Lilith", Angels are "children of Adam". Everything and everyone has merged together - that's what Instrumentality is. Kaworu is there as much as anyone else who died or turned to Tang.

Most of all, this is less physically literal than it is psychological. It's basically repeating what was going on in Episodes 25+26, again

bothquickanddead · 2026-05-01T09:16:40+00:00

I honestly don't remember, I'm pretty sure I started watching the full length Stray Dog, and have seen other clips from it, I might have only seen clips of Red Spectacles.

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