Waypoints 33: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Episodes 1-7

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Neon Genesis Evangelion is finally streaming, and with it comes our long promised rewatch of the series. On this episode we discuss the first seven episodes, from the different translations, to it's cinematic story-telling, from it's use of sexist anime tropes, to the deep exploration of its character's psyches. Danielle, Rob, and Patrick give their first time impressions while Cado and Austin shoot knowing glances back and forth. It's a long one, so strap in!

Episodes Discussed: 1: Angel Attack, 2: Unfamiliar Ceiling, 3: The Silent Phone, 4: Rain, After Running Away, 5: Rei, Beyond the Heart, 6: Showdown in Tokyo-3, 7: The Works Of Man

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0:00.0	What's good internet? It is Thursday and that means that we here at Waypoint are back
0:25.1	to nerd out and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment that has been inspiring
0:29.4	and provoking us lately. Today we are continuing our ongoing conversation, kind of restarting
0:35.2	it about Nea and Genesis Evangelion, the Guy and X produced in Hadecki on O'Helm, Mecca
0:40.3	anime that originally ran from 1995 to 1996 and became recently available to watch again
0:46.1	in the West on Netflix as of last Friday, is that right? Yes. Okay. Joining me today, those are
0:53.2	the voices of Dania Riendo. Hi, hello. Kato, Ricardo Contreras. I've never seen your full name.
0:59.0	That's true. Somebody on Twitter was just like, oh, that's who that byline is.
1:03.2	Yeah, totally. Patrick Lepic. Two seconds before this podcast started, Rob sent me a private message
1:11.3	in which a tweet that is just visiting my grandma in Wisconsin and I open up the local paper with a
1:18.6	one to 14 ranking of different ranch dressings. Great. Cal girl. Look, I'm feeling that Midwestern
1:26.8	nostalgia. I miss white people. I miss their ways. You've got to make some time. Give
1:31.8	yourself some time to go back. Tell me, Cal girl ranch is on there. Is Cal girl ranch on there?
1:38.0	Number, I can't see the full list to be turned off your ad blog here. Hidden Valley is number one.
1:44.9	I was in classic number two. Oh, it's great. Oh, okay. I like different styles of ranch dressing.
1:51.2	Oh, okay. That makes sense. Which one did you say? Cal girl ranch. Like Annie's Cal girl.
1:57.0	Yeah. Yeah. No 13. 13. Tasters. Tasters hated the consistency, saying it was
2:04.8	too watery and looked, quote, oddly gray, drab and said. Oh, I smell like it smelled like feet
2:14.1	or sweat and tasted like bad cheese with a powdery aftertaste. They said, I couldn't taste it again.
2:24.6	One wrote. They didn't mean they wouldn't want to. They meant those buns are gone. Wow.
2:33.2	I think Annie's Cal girl is pretty good. I've never seen anyone. It's way point. You can like
2:39.6	feet, Danielle. No one's going to judge you. That expresses itself. Or sweat. I feel welcome. Also joining us,
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