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Rebuild of ANNCast: You Are Not Alone

screaming, crying, blood-vomiting sex apocalypse

Rei doesn't pick up the tape player

My Primary problem for this movie is that its the best example of just a film saying "Well Not that"

Shinji tries to save Rei's life
Film: Well that was a mistake
So what should Shinji have done
Film: Well Not that

spoiler[Kaworu realizes the difference and tries to stop Shinji, but Shinji is so intent on correcting everything that he fails to register Kaworu’s hesitation and he ends up falling for Gendou’s plot.] The scene again looks to be another case of Shinji failing, but given everything else shown up to this point, I find that it draws attention not so much to Shinji’s individual suffering, but to the world around Shinji. Whether Shinji follows his own will or whether he listens to others, he still creates disaster, but this Shinji is again a more active Shinji whose problem is not that he’s “unwilling” to help, but that his surrounding environment has forced him into unwinnable situations. Appropriately, this time around spoiler[Kaworu dies, but not directly because of Shinji.]

Shinji’s plight in Evangelion 3.33 mirrors the recent criticisms used against youth culture by media appealing to older generations. Whether inside or outside of Japan, the current generation is seen as a group of selfish good-for-nothings who want and expect everything handed to them, instead of knowing the value of sacrifice and hard work. Whether they’re referred to as “NEETs” or “Generation Me,” Shinji and Evangelion 3.33 bring to attention the idea that, while we can place blame on them, the previous generations are not absolved of blame; the world the children inherit is the world given to them.

The Rebuild movies are shit because the original Evangelion theme has lost its relevance to today's audience. It's as simple as that. Even Anno knows it instinctively, and that's the reason you have 30+ year old characters in the bodies of 15 year olds. Evangelion fans are like Robotech fans : 40+ year olds who can't let go. Anno knows this and keeps shitting on his "audience". The tragedy of Evangelion is that it is a show that simply cannot be retuned for modern day fans. So the only thing that continues to exist to this day is the selling of Rei and Asuka figurines for sex obsessed otakus (those aforementioned 40-50 year olds). As for the main character of the show ? No one gives a shit about him.

Welllllll, you're kind of on the right track!

It reminds me, I still feel like this is the absolute best take on 3.33 I've ever read. On that subject in particular:

Quote:

spoiler[Kaworu realizes the difference and tries to stop Shinji, but Shinji is so intent on correcting everything that he fails to register Kaworu’s hesitation and he ends up falling for Gendou’s plot.] The scene again looks to be another case of Shinji failing, but given everything else shown up to this point, I find that it draws attention not so much to Shinji’s individual suffering, but to the world around Shinji. Whether Shinji follows his own will or whether he listens to others, he still creates disaster, but this Shinji is again a more active Shinji whose problem is not that he’s “unwilling” to help, but that his surrounding environment has forced him into unwinnable situations. Appropriately, this time around spoiler[Kaworu dies, but not directly because of Shinji.] Shinji’s plight in Evangelion 3.33 mirrors the recent criticisms used against youth culture by media appealing to older generations. Whether inside or outside of Japan, the current generation is seen as a group of selfish good-for-nothings who want and expect everything handed to them, instead of knowing the value of sacrifice and hard work. Whether they’re referred to as “NEETs” or “Generation Me,” Shinji and Evangelion 3.33 bring to attention the idea that, while we can place blame on them, the previous generations are not absolved of blame; the world the children inherit is the world given to them.

I'm sure this isn't a mindblowing take but the point of the third movie is that you can't fix the past. Not through magical means or mundane means. You can only move forward. That's sort of frustrating when taken with the point of 2.22: Shinji can't move forward because he's being held back by his evil dad.

I'm sure this isn't a mindblowing take but the point of the third movie is that you can't fix the past. Not through magical means or mundane means. You can only move forward. That's sort of frustrating when taken with the point of 2.22: Shinji can't move forward because he's being held back by his evil dad.

Trying to look for a meaning in this film trilogy is a doomed enterprise from the start.

Now lets be honest and say it like it needs to be said