While it might be true, it’s also equally dismissive of the dozens of other artistic influences the creators might have as well as their own ingenuity.īefore anything else, we need to move the conversation about whether a particular piece of work is influential away from the artistic influences of the creators.
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Someone will see Eva and then see the similarities with Serial Experiments Lain and they will automatically jump to the conclusion that Lain’s creators were influenced by Eva. The problem is that we will often attribute a cause to the pattern. They’ll look at a television show and then they’ll see another show and see the similarities. People often confuse art and commerce when they talk about whether something is influential. I will let you decide.Īlso, I apologize for how many times I’m going to write influence, influenced and influential. The same thing goes for calling a show groundbreaking and genre-defining.Īlso, the gulf between what I know and what I think I know is far and deep, so I could be totally off base with what I’m saying here. I could easily stand on a hill and say that Eva defined anime for the later part of the 90s and the early part of the 2000s. I’m just as guilty of these over generalizations as the next person. Without criticizing the idea that either of them put out, I want to get my own ideas about this subject out.īut let’s start with a little bit of table clearing.Ī lot of people descend into hyperbole when they talk about influential shows.
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One was this post over at Full Frontal Moe criticizing the idea that Eva is a deconstruction of the mecha genre, and the other is this tweet thread from Thaliarchus about how we judge newer examples of a genre as more mature than older ones.Īll of this got me thinking about how we (as fans and critics and critical fans) talk about influence and impact when it comes to a genre.
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