Whole franchise is about the protag struggling with what he thinks is his responsibility and forcing himself to pilot. I also don't see how Shinji not piloting would make the film not fun. We have the best character ever Asuka to take care of that. The franchise is about Shinji embracing his respon...

Shinji may or may not pilot Unit 01, but he must play a central role in the ending, even if it just means rejecting instrumentality, (or the NTE equivalent). The idea of him spending the entire movie in the mess hall kitchen or an isolation cell while everyone else kicks ass is just beyond lame*. Ye...

Well, I think most of the hate towards the aquarium scene was centered on the over-the-top cheesiness of its first half, with the very upbeat sounding music and the ridiculous comic relief in the decontamination scene. If that counts as "cheesy," then so do a lot of scenes from the origin...

I do wish these movies would spend an extra 10 mins or so to explore non-Shinji characters more in-depth. Remember how much people bitched about the aquarium scene from 2.0? IMO that scene had some good world building and character development, (especially for those new to Eva, or haven't seen it i...

Goat, your guess is as good as anyone else's. I like the video and I agree there is something fundamentally off about the footage of the battle between Unit 01 and Unit 13. It's almost like some doctored propaganda footage from an actual war -- it just looks wrong, like the parts were cut from other...

It's a montage . We're not meant to think Shinji got good in 30 seconds. The timeline is compressed. I didn't think it was a stretch to imagine Shinji becoming competent after spending entire days with Kaworu (who I sort of assumed had some prior knowledge of musicianship) and doing nothing but play...

But Shinji's cello lessons, by his own admission, took place over years, not weeks. He's good at it because he's been practicing at it for a very, very long time. Sorry to derail, but the point of the cello scene in NGE is to point out Shinji's low sense of self-worth, i.e. he can't even graciously...

I used to like QMisato's blog. Unfortunately, her twitter account has turned into the kind of "Mean Girls"-clique-ishness-disguised-as-social-commentary endemic to social media. She assassinates the character of anyone who mildly disagrees with her, digs up dirt on them, and vocally encour...

Alright. So I just got done watching 3.0 for the third time in less than a week. To put it bluntly, my main problem with 3.0 is GASLIGHTING. I seriously think you’d be better off reflecting on it than watching it over and over. The movie is upsetting and characters don't make perfect decisions, but...

Following that logic, they wouldn't have bothered to put the DSS Choker on him and instead had reserved it for the off chance that they capture Kaworu. Clearly they still saw him as a threat on some level, and they quite openly say so, too My point is that they didn’t think they would need to persu...

I still think your script is far too confusing and still would have failed to inform or persuade Shinji of anything (while still eliciting groans from the fanbase). Face it, there is too much complex information to convey and revealing a piece of it just opens a whole new can of worms: “why is it ba...

I envisioned something more like this: This speech doesn't work either because at this point, Shinji doesn't understand that there is a war between his old comrades. For all he knows, he is at a new NERV base, they are fighting angels, and his father is around or away on business. Your script is fa...

I put this through Google Translate and it was a great read. Thanks for sharing. I like the idea that Gendo & Yui's plan in NTE may be to prevent Second Impact by tearing open the fabric of space-time (at least I think that's what you're getting at; I don't pretend to understand the mechanics of...

I hate this idea that Evangelion is a "deconstruction of mecha." Whenever someone says Eva is a "deconstruction of mecha," I want to know which classic mecha show they are talking about (remember that it had to come before Eva, in the 80s to early 90s). When pressed, people who b...

I agree with the above post, which is why I don't feel strongly either way about Mari. She is there mainly for comic relief and to move the plot along at certain points, e.g. taking Asuka's place in the Zeruel fight. She's funny and irreverent, sometimes borders on Mary Sue-ish, but not obnoxiously ...

Ironically, Rei Q highlights the individuality of the Rei that Shinji and the audience knew in the first two movies. Rei II cannot, as she says, be replaced — she's an individual with a distinct personality shaped by her experiences in Tokyo-3. The fact that her replacement in Q is so different is d...

I've been watching the dub of the latest season on Adult Swim and I'm not especially impressed. I was ready to accept that it wouldn't be as good as the original but I told myself I'd try to enjoy the ride anyway. But this new season makes me realize how important Naota was to the chemistry of the s...

Re: Shinji's supposed wimpiness, I think most fans are remembering the first episode and EoE — which is understandable, but it kind of skews your perception. In Ep 1, he's wrestling not only with fear but resentment of his father, who is asking him to do something incredibly dangerous years after ab...

I'm going to keep watching to see what happens, but here's my first impression of Ep 15: it was really disappointing. I found the concept of the show intriguing at first, but it's just taken a turn into melodrama and anime cliches. I can't tell you exactly what I was expecting, but I was hoping for ...

Not sure if this is a direct reference, but in the flashback scenes of Darling in the Franxx , the characters are all wearing hospital gowns and chokers, similar to what Shinji was given to wear at the beginning of 3.0. https://i.imgur.com/aq3gSah.png https://i.imgur.com/V8R3oML.png The characters i...