I've run several tests using my "Sincerity Meter" on the film in question, and I'm unable to duplicate its supposed "insincere" nature. Further tests are needed. Did you turn the meter on before testing? The basics would be that 3.33's basic premises and characterization are obf...

Drabant : Responding to a polite request with passive aggressive behavior is probably not the sort of thing you want to be doing again, either. (Please review the rules, as it seems to be in order.) Uh-huh. But I'm dead serious. The very thread's opening post starts by "deprecating" a lar...

I have absolutely no problem with you expressing your opinion on the work itself, but I must ask that you refrain from further generalized deprecation of those who do not share your perspective. I get why you'd say that, but keep in mind that it is a core part of the polarizing nature of this quest...

I don't know about people, but I do for certain. It's a deeply insincere work which only function is to cater, resulting in unrealistic premises, characters, and a plot that can't be called anything but minimal and idiotic. It's the very first work in Evangelion I've seen that has such a concentrate...

That's your interpretation, not a fact or direct statement, tho. If I may say so, I think it's a good interpretation. In fact, I dare say that it's the best interpretation, to the point that it should be taken as fact. We've come to know Evangelion and it's creators for over twenty years now, and n...

But that aside, I think that this Anno transcript has been widely misunderstood. It's not, "Oh, that character is BS and you shouldn't like her", ..... It's clearly not misunderstood. There is zero reason to say such a thing without intending to have that exact effect. It's not "arti...

Seems a bit oversimplified. Vampire Hunter D, Guts, half of all shounen protags have what you could call "creepy" origins, and they're popular enough. Because it actually is oversimplified, and the proof is right in front of us. Having creepy origins or a creepy nature is no real deterren...

Really? I didn't see that being reflected in Rebuild at all. Rei got far more characterization in the Rebuild films, and heck, her character arc and relationship with Shinji is one of the key story elements present in the entire movie saga. We see her start out as the unfeeling clone in the fir...

Interesting analysis from Anno, because for me, Rei became more attractive after her humanization and demystification, not before. It's obvious Anno, like so many other opportunistic fans, is lying. The Rei from the TV-series is mysterious, but the Rebuild version is an even larger enigma, with...

Zeruel was already dead before Shinji dove in and started Third Impact. "Not doing anything" was decidedly not his only alternative in that fight, given that his choice that screwed everyone over was made after he had already killed the angel. Can't say I remember that happening. Zeru...

Which ones? In Seele's list of better options I legitimately can't figure out which ones you're saying are going to somehow cause a worse outcome than Fourth Impact. First I'll say that I had Third Impact in mind, and not the Fourth while considering these options, and I imagined th...

Shinji had no other options? Please. Let it go. How about you let it go? Frankly I don't really see your point. Shinji has other options, there are always other options. But they might at the time seem like bad options given what is known. Some options you mentioned are just downright retarded ...

Posting my support for Rei Q.

Problem comes in when he succeeds. He saves Rei...now what? With the way Eva always seemed to work if he wanted to I assume Shinji could of went back with Rei, but he goes the other way. He decides he likes his nice Rei bubble, fuck the world, and thus 3I starts. He definitely doesn't know this...

You couldn't make him sound more like a Nazi if you tried. Why are you mentioning Nazi's? They've got nothing to do with Q unless you've got an interesting theory to share. Drop the silly and unrelated rhetoric, please. If Shinji did not willingly start Third Impact, then who did? K...

In some ways disappointed. But I'm equally positively surprised because I couldn't really see any of this coming. Asuka/Mari was as expected, so no change there. Timeskip blew me away, and all the other crazy stuff put me in a zone where I think staying down to earth doesn't matter any m...

Seems like you kind of answered your own question there. Really, I don't think it would matter all that much if he'd gotten back into Eva-01 with an end goal of transforming everything into flowers and bunnies. He still destroyed the world, and the responsibility for that can't be pushe...

Post on different viewpoints I think you're spot on here. There's more agenda rather than thought behind this. I suppose some are more concerned about who Shinji saves rather than why/how he is saving Rei. From what I've been able to gather from the recent translated bits of the audio r...

Got to say I'm really liking the designs and so on, all looks amazing and so far out I'd never catch on, the AAA Wunder being the one thing I could never, ever have foreseen. SRW, HERE WE COME! But: Rei was practically not in the movie, was what I heard, that she's dead or worse, and now...

Seems like much has been said already, but for me personally I'm happy to get the new characters confirmed as existing, so they won't just exist as that big "maybe" I heard about a long time ago! If it's like the last trailer, it has OK coverage of all the major events in bits ...