I'm deleting old files in a bid to clean up my computer's desktop.
This includes several text files which I meant to one day be full-fledged
essays. I post them here in case I may ever want to return to these
subjects. Though I likely never will.
The Big O! Serial Storytelling in a Post-Evangelion World
Marketing concept falling by the wayside in favor of the story
-Big O does not go into detail explaining the event 40 years prior
-just like Y the Last Man doesn't explain the death of every male
-just like Eva stopped being a monster-of-the-week show for selling toys
The form of the story gives way to the crux of the story
-Big O makes a point of highlighting the roles of the characters,
characters are revealed to be living sham lives
-LOST is built on characters' flashbacks and flashforwards until the
story is literally jumping back and forth in time
-Every character in Eva is depressed as hell, and it is revealed that
the whole point of Instrumentality is to fix those emotions
Between seasons, The Big O creators were given time to think, much the
way that Anno had two years to think about the direction of Eva's
story.
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