What are everyone's thoughts, feelings, opinions about both the old and new Evangelion series?

4.0 SPOILERS

I thought the rebuild ending was more depressing than EoE, partly because when given the power to create LITERALLY ANYTHING, Shinji goes ahead and creates a copy of THIS WORLD (evidenced by the use of a live action shot in the end), where he will live as a capitalist salaryman with his literal waifu.

At least in EoE everyone could choose to come out of instrumentality by themselves to create a new world, thus leaving everything ambiguous.

Pure ideology, Mark Fisher is vindicated yet again.

They also couldn't go 5 MINUTES without showing some 14 year old girl ass....

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    3 years ago

    I agree that the ending of 4.0 is bad because it is both very simple and very preachy, I was just pointing out that the ending (and 4.0 in general) is focused on the meta level, so the textual level is more or less irrelevant.

    Indeed m8 sorry if I came off as a bit too hostile.

    On the textual level, though: in fairness to Shinji, the current real world is better than the world he lived in, because while we do live under capitalism, with all that entails, we aren’t living in a post-apocalyptic eternal summer where 2/3 of the world died to the second impact,

    ...yet :ancap-good: (we need a neolib globe emoji)

    But yeah he would in the end create such a world because he's a 14 year old child soldier who has probably only heard good things about the pre-impact world. It also mirror's Anno's own experiences too, since he was lucky enough that his efforts as an animator were rewarded by market forces and he's a millionaire now. Therefore, his ideal world of self-actualization would be this one.