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meh, I found Girl who Leapt through Time, Summer Wars, and Your Name to be pretty forgettable. Spirited Away, Tokyo Godfathers, and Akira are obviously classics

meh, I found Girl who Leapt through Time, Summer Wars, and Your Name to be pretty forgettable. Spirited Away, Tokyo Godfathers, and Akira are obviously classics, but none of them have made quite as deep an impression on me as EoE. I guess it hinges on which themes are most personally meaningful to you.

dragontamer 5y ago
I'm one of the few Evangelion watchers who prefer the original series ending over EoE. I mean, the scribbles are pretty out there, but the core concept written is about Shinji coming out of his depression thanks to human instrumentality project. Its a bit magical and I don't think depression works like that... but the optimism that you can talk through your problems with your peers is a good message. It was a muddled ending with a weird storytelling style with a studio that obviously was running out of money. But it got the point across, to me anyway. More so than the alternative ending, which I do realize more fans seem to enjoy because its got a really good fight scene in it. But the message of EoE is even more muddled and seems to just becomes an extreme parody of itself. Evangelion always was very much introspective, but EoE crosses the line into navel-gazing. ROT13: V zrna, Fuvawv vf na nffubyr 13 lrne byq. Ohg... znfgheongvat va sebag bs na hapbafpvbhf Nfhxn? Zvfngb naq Xnwv'f frk fprar jvgu Fuvawv jngpuvat bire vg, qrpvqvat jurgure be abg gb xvyy rirelbar? Like, there's a limit to what I can believe, and I do think that EoE crosses a line. I'm sure a young boy like Shinji can feel bad about his awakened sexual desires but... whooo boy. That's pretty out there.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  I agree, I didn’t like it at first because everyone else told me to dislike it. It’s a lot more cerebral and less eye candy and has different interpretations.
- cehrlich 5y ago
  I agree completely, I watched the original without knowing much about it going in and thought the ending was incredible. The ending of EoE on the other hand is way too self indulgent to me. I don't know if it's because I was younger when I first watched it so it had a different impression on me, but I even prefer the original ending over the ending of the Rebuilds.

dragontamer 5y ago

I'm one of the few Evangelion watchers who prefer the original series ending over EoE. I mean, the scribbles are pretty out there, but the core concept written is about Shinji coming out of his depression thanks to human instrumentality project. Its a bit magical and I don't think depression works like that... but the optimism that you can talk through your problems with your peers is a good message. It was a muddled ending with a weird storytelling style with a studio that obviously was running out of money. But it got the point across, to me anyway. More so than the alternative ending, which I do realize more fans seem to enjoy because its got a really good fight scene in it. But the message of EoE is even more muddled and seems to just becomes an extreme parody of itself. Evangelion always was very much introspective, but EoE crosses the line into navel-gazing. ROT13: V zrna, Fuvawv vf na nffubyr 13 lrne byq. Ohg... znfgheongvat va sebag bs na hapbafpvbhf Nfhxn? Zvfngb naq Xnwv'f frk fprar jvgu Fuvawv jngpuvat bire vg, qrpvqvat jurgure be abg gb xvyy rirelbar? Like, there's a limit to what I can believe, and I do think that EoE crosses a line. I'm sure a young boy like Shinji can feel bad about his awakened sexual desires but... whooo boy. That's pretty out there.

GhettoComputers 5y ago
I agree, I didn’t like it at first because everyone else told me to dislike it. It’s a lot more cerebral and less eye candy and has different interpretations.
cehrlich 5y ago
I agree completely, I watched the original without knowing much about it going in and thought the ending was incredible. The ending of EoE on the other hand is way too self indulgent to me. I don't know if it's because I was younger when I first watched it so it had a different impression on me, but I even prefer the original ending over the ending of the Rebuilds.