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The concept of fan-service has become ingrained in the medium, to the point where we actually have that particular silly slang term for it (which you can get someone else to define in detail for you). There's nothing necessarily wrong with this, and in fact, artfully executed, it can add considerably to the entertainment value of a show without bringing down the rest of it in any way. Hell, the fan-service is about the only part of Evangelion I can stand to watch anymore.

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. It's as if someone conceived a grand equation for maximum fanboy appeal and ran it through the franchise-o-matic, creating a show that's all marketing potential and no soul. It's hardly engaging, rarely moving and practically never funny -- I'm sorry, folks, but the poor dumb scumbag lead looking up some girl's skirt and getting decked for his trouble is not amusing anymore, no matter how many walls he bounces off from the recoil. Someone is going to have to come up with a better gag than that to squeeze a grin out of my jaded cheek muscles

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Sad to say, though, even her savage kendo stylings, complete with a beautiful parody of silent samurai films to open the third episode, can't save what is a fundamentally boneheaded story concept. Unless you're going to make My Dinner With Andre over again, an appealing character or two is not enough to cut it.

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And neither can you, all of you, so for your own sake stop fooling yourself and watching this kind of diseased fantasy-fulfilling twaddle. Accept it like I have, wha? And find something more original to whack off over.

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This theme song is...strange. It's as if somebody ran the breakdowns from an organ-driven Screeching Weasel song through a distortion pedal or what-have-you and stretched them out about three times too long. I...like it? I guess. Weird as hell, though. That, unfortunately, is the artistic highlight of the soundtrack, which otherwise fails to do much of anything inspiring,

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The one extra I really would have wanted here, a credit-free opening, is nowhere to be found.

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Absolutely generic fanboy fantasy fulfillment. You're welcome to like this, but if you do, you're a loser.

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