User:THE Fabulous Hal E. Burton 9000

THE Fabulous Hal E. Burton 9000
Name	THE Fabulous Hal E. Burton 9000
Real Name
Date of birth
Homeland
Role	Yet to be determined
Lot in life	Artist
Favorite Episode	tie, 26 and 25'
Favorite Character	Yui
Favorite Relationship	Gendo/Yui
Favorite Angel	Lilim
Favorite Evangelion	Evangelion Unit-04

Neon Genesis Evangelion and I

The following was originally posted THE Hal E. Burton 9000 me on what was then called Eva Monkey Forums on Thursday, Mar 15, 2007, at around 11:39 pm: Anywho, it was the middle of the night. I think it was real early AM Sunday morning too. I was channel surfing and I found this insane show. It was animated, on Cartoon Network. It was a part of the whole "Adult Swim" block I had heard advertised years before (ATHF, other annoyingly crappy shows that I can't recall, etc.) which I wrote off as stoner entertainment. But this show, it was different. Very different. It was throwing out these questions that seemed really emotional but honest and methodical. I was completely riveted. This was such a wonderfully refreshing show. Its name, (cue up A Cruel Angel's Thesis) EVANGELION! I think it was episode 26, crazily enough! It was my first exposure to Eva and the first time something I not only liked but loved came from Japan since I had a fallout with Power Rangers over a decade earlier and hardened that disdain after the Pokemon explosion. I had found Eva and a whole world of great anime that I did not know even existed! :~D

As of January 2008, it's been two years since I first encountered Evangelion on Adult Swim. It was an interesting time for this to occur, considering what I was going through at that time. Jenna, my original crush from grade school had been molested by her father's best friend and long time family friend and it was a culmination of much of what I had experienced since the fifth grade. I'll try and keep this VERY long story as short as I can.

Beginning in fifth grade, the grasp of what I then realized were my overprotective parents had started to loosen. I had the worst teacher ever, puberty kicks in and a girl named Jenna that I had a crush found out that I had one on her (and I did so in an unflattering manner). I continued to act up into the sixth grade. So much so, I got sent to a therapist and I was put on a combination of Prozac and Zoloft. I attempted suicide twice and fortunately did not succeed. By seventh grade, I had not changed my feelings for Jenna but I had stopped "pining" for her so outwardly. I stopped taking Prozac and Zoloft as well as acting up but I continually grew and grew so disenchanted with the private, Protestant nondenominational school I had attended since the second grade I left in the middle of my freshman year. I would be homeschooled for the remainder of high school. Fast forward some years later, and I heard what happened to Jenna, and much of the feelings that I had built up (and since the seventh grade) purged against the school's administration, to a lesser extent against my parents, BURST FORTH. It may have been the most depressing one and a half years of my life.

Enter Evangelion. It was during that one and a years after I was made aware of Jenna that I discovered Evangelion so early on that random Sunday morning. It REALLY resonated with me and with what I had been going through in the past and that current time. It was one of the very few times that something in the media (from a CARTOON no less) so accurately and deeply connected with all my thoughts and feelings. For that, Evangelion is my all time, all genre favorite television show and I will forever be indebted to Anno-sensei.

Links of a MOAR Personal Interest

http://colbyp3.blogspot.com/ It's an old blog of mine, one that holds the VERY long story of what I talked about earlier.

http://www.happynews.com/news/1282005/breaking-the-silence.htm An online article I wrote regarding Jenna.

http://www.notjustjenna.org/index.html Jenna decided to participate in a documentary about her tragedy.