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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unit-99999999" data-source="post: 614547" data-attributes="member: 14025">Glad to know that our views on Evnagelion align so closely! I'm thankful to you for the thread you've created and for sharing those pamphlets - it was a real surpise for me because I always knew that they had to change the TV ending because of budget or something but I've seen so many people on Evangelion Reddit actually believing that the TV series' ending is what was intended from the beginning and the movie was just way to keep angry fans silent. Somebody even said that he thinks the show was about mental issues from the very beginning and the robots was just a disguise to make it more mainstream LOL. By the way, the thing that made me believe that End of Evangelion was a real ending is that we actually see elements from it in the TV intro (you can see tree of life, Unit-01 with wings). Now that you said it, I agree that Evangelion as a whole seems to be going downward spiral. However I still believe the movie went way too far. The hospital scene made it near impossible to root for Shinji as the character became some sort of sick pervert. I saw people defending the scene and I undertsand what it was meant to do but for me personally it served rather the opposite effect and I started dislike the guy.Another character that was ruined by the movie is Misato. What I didn't know when I watched it for the first time is that the age of consent in Japan is 14 years old. Weird but OK. There is another problem though - Shinji never liked Misato in a sexual kind of way - and it seems like she was OK with that (in fact, I often thought of Shinji as brat for not appreciating enough what Misato did for him - which is letting him live with her and offering her support). What makes the scene even worse is that Kaji died like, what, 3 episodes before that? I thought it just made Misato look very bad.The part I really liked about End of Evangelion is how Asuka's story has ended. Not the ending of the battle (which was heartbreaking), but the fact that she realized that the soul of her mother was in Unit-02 which helped her to regain Sync rate and came out of the lake stronger than she's ever been before. The battle that followed was very violent but it was very well done technically - animation is amazing.Sorry for such a long post about this movie. I just have a lot of thoughts about it and it's difficut to find people who agree tolook at the series crtitically - I noticed that many fans are trying to justify every single detail and looking for secret meaning but many others label Evangelion as garbage and refuse to believe that some stuff there is really, really well done</blockquote>

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