FGC:Episode 25 Cut 011

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	011		UrsusArctos: Evangelion, like Ideon, has no qualms showing brutal violence being inflicted on kids, or on referencing said acts of brutality again. Dr. Nick: We've mentioned Tomino's Space Runaway Ideon a couple of times, but it bears pointing out here how similar the endings of the two shows ended up being production-wise as well. Ideon got the famous Sunrise axe and its episode count was chopped just as its plot was starting to hit its endgame. This resulted in the TV show going out with a really unsatisfying whimper - imagine, if you will, if Anno had had roughly two minutes of runtime to cram his TV ending in, and you'll get the idea. After a fan backlash, an ending redo was greenlit for Ideon in the format of two movies, the first one, A Contact, recapping the TV series, and the latter one, Be Invoked, turning those final two minutes into a spectacularly violent apocalyptic mind trip of movie, complete with a short live-action sequence. While Eva's TV ending is almost entirely introspection, a little bit of this Ideon DNA leaks in during the parts where we get to glimpse the real world and the proto-EoE happening behind the scenes (or behind the stage in this case).

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