Well, we watched it knowing about depression, and my personal (and for personal reasons, genetic ones unfortunately...) study of e.g. cognitive psychology and t

Well, we watched it knowing about depression, and my personal (and for personal reasons, genetic ones unfortunately...) study of e.g. cognitive psychology and therapy made the original TV ending pretty comprehensible with effort, at least about what Anno thought important (people, not the giant robot/super-conspiracy gloss). But wouldn't most people, including a large fraction in e.g. the US, just think Anno was weird (which as a successful creator he pretty much as to be anyway :-).