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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor Irony" data-source="post: 552240" data-attributes="member: 159">That's right folks, time to stand awkwardly at the back of a lift, scream geometrically and never ask why your flatmate has a live penguin, because it's only Neon Genesis flaming Evangelion!<img src="https://i.imgur.com/6f1mQKM.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And they said it would never happen.Plot Summary (from ANN)At the age of 14 Shinji Ikari is summoned by his father to the city of Neo Tokyo-3 after several years of separation. There he unwillingly accepts the task of becoming the pilot of a giant robot by the name EVA01 and protect the world from the enigmatic invaders known as "angels." Even though he repeatedly questions why he has accepted this mission from his estranged and cold father, his doing so helps him to gradually accept himself. However, why exactly are the angels attacking and what are his father’s true intentions are yet to be unraveled.Viewing plan:Based on Netflix's acquisitions and the relative length of the show, my hope is that we can cover the main 26 episode run and follow that with End of Evangelion, possibly with a short break before the film to allow people to digest.  Netflix also has the Death (True2) compilation film (aka Death and Rebirth), but I feel that should be optional - it doesn't really add much that isn't covered elsewhere.Having discussed it a little bit in the General Conversation Thread, it didn't seem like anyone was too hung up on binging the show, so my feeling is that we should just stick to a similar format as the Nadia simulwatch.  My idea was that we aim to watch one episode a day and post a little bit about each ep as we go, but do a bigger post after every four episodes. That way, hopefully anyone who can't make a daily post or just wants to watch the show in chunks still has the option to follow along by just posting once every four days.  To make this easier to keep up with, I'll try to change the episode number in the thread title every day, so that everyone can see at a glance what number we're on.  Obviously you're free to write as much or as little as you like, this is just based on past experience of folk getting burned out on these things.Spoiler tagging should be a matter of common sense, but I think we can probably feel free to post untagged stuff for the earlier episodes for every fourth-ep post.I wasn't entirely sure when the show would drop on Netflix (it was not midnight), but it's up now so feel free to make any posts on ep1 beginning now.  I'll put my own thoughts on ep 1 up later, but if anyone is watching from DVD or BD sources, a screencap or two would be most welcome, as the Netflix app has a screenshot blocker in place.Lastly, don't feel embarrassed if you have to drop out or if you're just not digging it.  It happens, it's fine.</blockquote>

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