[FFML] Children of an Elder God Finale (Episode 24) COMPLETE

[John Biles]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Jusenkyo Guide <jusenkyoguide at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think maybe the 12 years from start to finish for this (Dear God...
> it's been THAT fricken long?!) made it seem that this was a bit,
> hmm... rushed in places. The previous chapters have all been so
> intense on their build up and battle that I felt kind of gyped when it
> came time for the supposedly climatic battle with the big C at his
> house in R'lyeh. Of course, it could just show how far along the
> Children were, but I think I still would have liked to have had more.

Basically, the real climax of this story is when the Children decide
to reject the Dream World and restore reality at the cost of their own
happiness.  Cthulhu, by this point, just isn't strong enough to beat
them; SEELE tried to rig the game to ensure that the Children WOULD be
vulnerable, but they blew it.

To quote myself:

The Shinji believed in by SEELE would have given up.  He would have
caved in and snapped under the pressure and surrendered.  That Shinji
was a weak and lonely boy with no friends, no family, no hope and no
reason to continue to exist but pure animal instinct.

	That Shinji was the last and most fatal of the delusions of SEELE and
their creations, the DAGON units which drove the Mass Production Evas,
which responded now not to SEELE's commands but those of their master,
the Dream King.  And so it was his delusion too.

	That Shinji was dead.


>
> I did enjoy the dream world though, it hit ALL the right notes with
> Shinji's Angelic Days idea in the original ending (minus the panty
> shots though) with enough hints that below the surface of such
> normaility, things that should just not be looked at were there, very
> Lovecraftian.
>
Cool!

> All in all though, I am glad to see this tale draw to a close. I've
> enjoyed it greatly, though I am slightly annoyed given that I was
> hoping Rei would just eat Asuka and then toss Shinji over her shoulder
> and go off to somewhere for a very freaky kind of Lemon Sherbert
> sequal.
>

Heh!