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> "he would fail, be driven insane in the process, and humanity would fall." ...and since that is the obvious conclusion, it makes for a truly awful ending. The
by mftb 5y ago
> "he would fail, be driven insane in the process, and humanity would fall."
...and since that is the obvious conclusion, it makes for a truly awful ending. The last 3 or 4 episodes of NGE are interminable. There are some truly exceptional things in NGE, but it's flawed.
- whymauri 5y agoThe movie saves it for me. Like, I appreciate the last 3 episodes of NGE from a 'psychoanalysis of the writer' POV, but the real entertainment is in the catharsis of End of Evangelion.
- EamonnMR 5y agoEspecially Asuka going John Wick on the military hardware and MP Evas... one of the best pieces of animation in the series. My one qualm with the rebuilds is that none of the fights are that good.
- wwilim 5y agoI think the last fight in 2.22 tops that. It just feels very cathartic after 26 episodes and a few movies watching Shinji let everything important to him slip out of his hands. It is certainly less in the traditional Eva spirit of "everything you do will ultimately fail, no matter how hard you try"
- Pxtl 5y agoThe few that look cool are so dark and gloomy you can't see what's going on, at least when I watched it. Like Maru's introduction, or the launch at the opening of Part 3. I feel like the final battles of part 4 were supposed to be centrepieces but they were just too over-the-top.
- EamonnMR 5y agoAgreed, and I find the trend of CGI swarms really boring anyway.
- mftb 5y agoI wish I could say the same. I was hoping for redemption from the movie, there really are parts of NGE I like. At the end I was so angry at myself for having wasted another two hours I can't even tell you.
- adfgdfhaionoi 5y agoNGE is stylish and powerfully emotional, but isn't profound. At all. It is at its best when it's about eldritch horrors and giant robots. There was a great story in there somewhere. It's a shame Anno wasn't interested in telling it.