Created: 28 July 2015
This one’s a doozy. I was working on a much larger, much more ambitious video about Zone of the Ender’s as a whole (largely inspired by Dunkey’s Halo videos), and I may still return to and finish it (because I like how a lot of it came out) but at the time it was clearly too much for me to be tackling.
I knew one of my talking points was going to be the crazy cliffhanger ending of ZoE1, in which the protagonist fights a nigh invincible rival. But then I watched Episodes 24, 25, and 26 of Evangelion 3 times each, and was struck with inspiration. I decided to edit the grand finale of my ZoE video before the rest of it was finished, and the product was Ode to the Enders. For those who don’t know, it’s based off an iconic scene (<-spoilers) from episode 24 of Evangelion, in which the protagonist fights a nigh invincible rival, to the tune of Ode to Joy. Truly, that scene is the greatest achievement of Lilin culture.
This is actually why I put emphasis on the dialogue in the first 30 seconds; in the larger context of the big video it made more sense, but
when I chopped off this little 2-minute clip and released it as a stand-alone video, those details got carried over.