Question about watching Evangelion

[Houss]

Is it fair to say that you need to watch more than one time Evangelion to fully grasp 100% of the plot ? I'm rewatching now, and I'm picking up and understanding a lot more plot points than my first time watching, anyone else experienced the same thing ?

[Mr. Tines]

While the broad brush outline is there for the "just watch it when it was broadcast" audience, there are indeed plenty of places where chance remarks or asides turn out to be more significant in saying what is actually going on than they first appear.

[Blockio]

Yeah. Eva is easy enough to understand the broad strokes on a first watch if you're paying proper attention, but like anything else, you will pick up on new things on rewatches that you didn't notice before or - in the case of a first rewatch especially - pieces of foreshadowing that were hidden in plain sight

[Houss]

Yeah. Eva is easy enough to understand the broad strokes on a first watch if you're paying proper attention, but like anything else, you will pick up on new things on rewatches that you didn't notice before or - in the case of a first rewatch especially - pieces of foreshadowing that were hidden in plain sight

Yeah I understood the general idea on my first watch, just felt that some parts weren't clear enough or more like didn't spell things out more clearly and left to the viewer to figure out. But on my re-watch and thanks to the wiki it was a lot clearer. Thanks for your answer !

While the broad brush outline is there for the "just watch it when it was broadcast" audience, there are indeed plenty of places where chance remarks or asides turn out to be more significant in saying what is actually going on than they first appear.

Yeah I noticed ! Thanks for your answer !
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[sithsauron]

I don't think anyone can fully grasp 100% of the plot no matter how many times they watch it. Even if being told things point blank by official material or being explained certain ideas generally accepted by core fans, there are just too many gaps and reaches to rid doubt about what really happened behind the scenes.

[WDS]

You can watch it a hundred times and spend 20 years arguing about it on the Internet and you still won't fully understand it.