It's very hard to sympathise with Shinji being afraid to get in the robot, when the entire world is at stake.
See I find it incredibly easy to sympathise with St. Shinji in this situation because the entire world is at stake, the enormous pressure on the shoulders of some "literally me" mentally fucked up kid with crippling insecurity, mediated only by the disappointment of the absent Father. "Realistically" how would you know that he is even capable of piloting the evil doohicky without any training to even save the world?
It's hard to sympathise with him being afraid, when the alternative to getting in the robot is also him dying.
"Its hard to sympathise with him being afraid, when the two choices from his POV in the moment both lead to suffering and a painful death."
Ok.
Furthermore:
I already dislike Shinji though, dude get in the fucking robot the world is ending. I guess sucking is hereditary...
Its a bit unfair to say that some relatively normal socially estranged 14 year old with chronic insecurity "sucks" because he reacts in a reasonable way to the proposition of fighting to the death with some lovecraftian entity because his deadbeat nutjob dad said so with the weight of saving the literal world on his shoulders.
In this universe, NERV and the UN classify as an "advanced civilization that is too stupid to exist" for making the necessary set of strategic blunders that result in a the fate of the world lying squarely on whether an emotionally unstable chronically insecure untrained 14 year old (famous for being reliable individuals) who needs a loving family more than his own personal nightmare engine will not act like an emotionally unstable chronically insecure 14 year old. Even from the 1st episode, I would say this is reasonably clear.
Your frustration implies that you expected differently.
*>inb4 "yeah i considered all of this but Shinji still sucks."
"Muh both sides". In this situation, I blame civil society, moreso than the individual pilot for the fuckery at hand. Therefore, I think civil society sucks, not the pilot. Nuff said.
Lmk how I misinterpreted "Shinji sucks because he didn't want to get in the robot to save humanity."
Which is strange, because he actually did end up "getting in the robot" at the end of the day, and jobbed hard in EP1 (as expected), so in the end the robot did all the work and we got a sick fight scene.
Ok you're being sufficiently clear here.
See I find it incredibly easy to sympathise with St. Shinji in this situation because the entire world is at stake, the enormous pressure on the shoulders of some "literally me" mentally fucked up kid with crippling insecurity, mediated only by the disappointment of the absent Father. "Realistically" how would you know that he is even capable of piloting the evil doohicky without any training to even save the world?
"Its hard to sympathise with him being afraid, when the two choices from his POV in the moment both lead to suffering and a painful death."
Ok.
Furthermore:
Its a bit unfair to say that some relatively normal socially estranged 14 year old with chronic insecurity "sucks" because he reacts in a reasonable way to the proposition of fighting to the death with some lovecraftian entity because his deadbeat nutjob dad said so with the weight of saving the literal world on his shoulders.
In this universe, NERV and the UN classify as an "advanced civilization that is too stupid to exist" for making the necessary set of strategic blunders that result in a the fate of the world lying squarely on whether an emotionally unstable chronically insecure untrained 14 year old (famous for being reliable individuals) who needs a loving family more than his own personal nightmare engine will not act like an emotionally unstable chronically insecure 14 year old. Even from the 1st episode, I would say this is reasonably clear.
Your frustration implies that you expected differently.
*>inb4 "yeah i considered all of this but Shinji still sucks."
"Muh both sides". In this situation, I blame civil society, moreso than the individual pilot for the fuckery at hand. Therefore, I think civil society sucks, not the pilot. Nuff said.
Lmk how I misinterpreted "Shinji sucks because he didn't want to get in the robot to save humanity."
Which is strange, because he actually did end up "getting in the robot" at the end of the day, and jobbed hard in EP1 (as expected), so in the end the robot did all the work and we got a sick fight scene.