NGE eending makes no fucking sense without the context. >MUH INSTRUMENTALITY What? >Split second shots of dead Misato and Ritsuko What happened? >some psychedelic sequence What is that supposed to rerepresent? >Characters interacting in a surreal environment Makes no fucking sense out of context.
NGE exnding was a genious foreshortening towards EOE, but it makes absolutely no fucking sense without the context that EOE provides. How are you supposed to interpret dead Misato without EOE? Did she sudoku? Did gendo kill her? Why is she still in the cast?
You're being a pretentious contrarian dick 25&26 and EOE are two inseparable parts of one experience. And if you didn't get the hint the movie is split in two fucking parts literally telling you that it shows the 25th until GNR and 26th episode after GNR. And if you interpret it that way it actually comes together into a coherent story.
>You're being a pretentious contrarian dick 25&26 and EOE are two inseparable parts of one experience except the second half of the movie is supposed to be a replacement of episode 26. in the series shinji breaks the cycle and finds self worth, in the movie he doesn't.
if the issue is the missing plot points like dead misato and ritsuko then death/rebirth should be the "full experience", because rebirth fills in those missing gaps. the movie adds a whole new level of retard and negates all character development built up during the series
Camden Cook
I'm pretty sure the series and EoE are companion works. The final episode is Shinji essentially being tempted to throw in the towel so to speak.
Noah Wood
>in the series shinji breaks the cycle and finds self worth, in the movie he doesn't.
He does. Shinji chose to live and get hurt by others and emerged from the LCL back into real world. That corresponds with CONGRATULATIONS. The perfect vision of a happy world with baloney pony represented Lilith asking Shinji what thee fuck does he want, she could creade such a world in LCL but he didn't want to create the matrix.
Shinji's revelation is too little too late, it's virtually meaningless which in context makes it literally meaningless. Returning to the material world gives his decision material substance, which is probably the most important message. Your realizations don't matter unless you act on them.
Jose Fisher
Why is this glorified thought dump good? The point of a story is to show, rather than tell. It's not about the plot, but how the plot weaves the themes and characters together into a cohesive piece.
Jace Young
by your logic the instrumentality would also be "literally meaningless". shinji doesn't have any revelation in EOE
Noah Martinez
because even considering the budget and time restraints, the series ending is the closest to the original vision not ruined by forced fan service
Henry Ross
We had not context to the choice, or what instrumentality even meant. For all we knew Shinij rejects it and everyone is still fucked.
