Resources Talk:Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal (Translation)

A curious note about the title of the original finale episode, "The Only Neat Thing To Do" by James Tiptree, Jr. "James Tiptree, Jr" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon; she was a bisexual female scifi writer who, through use of an assumed name, no one actually knew was female until years after her works were already famous. Many of the "mainstream scifi boys" like Harlan Ellison and such seriously thought she was a man, she duped them all. Her works deal a lot with gender relations, i.e. "The Screwfly Solution". At any rate, the basic plot of "The Only Neat Thing To Do" is that a female protagonist is piloting a spaceship, and a parasitic alien finds it way on board. This parasitic alien could be a danger to her world if she returns, so she does the "only neat thing": she points her ship towards open space and begins heading outward and away from her planet forever, committing suicide by eventual diminution of resources. In the process, she'd either also kill the parasitic alien, or if it could hibernate or something, she'd make sure it never got near her planet and was stranded on her dead ship. Why she didn't just fly into a sun is beyond me. Though this does have echoes of Yui's ultimate lonely journey through space in Eva 01. --V 08:40, 16 December 2007 (PST)