@Onii-chan: Is the difference really as significant as you're making it out to be? I mean, sure, with an enhanced budget and without the limitations imposed by TV censorship, they can mutilate the Evas even more, and do things like draw attention to pilot injuries by having them
blow er, glow and emit thousands of tiny bubbles.
But NME's ability to push the envelope aside, the pain aspect is pretty well established in the original from what I can tell. Shinji is totally useless in the Sachiel fight due to fear and being completely overwhelmed by the Eva's pain. They imply lingering trauma twice afterwards: when he stares at his left arm catatonically at the hospital, and via the zoom-in on his right eye while he's barraged with a flashback. He sobs after the Shamshel fight (he's emotionally overwhelmed, but Eva-01 also got her hands fried and her abdomen pierced); he has his first "I quit!" episode afterward. He gets boiled alive in the entry plug courtesy of Ramiel, and predictably isn't too keen on going out there again. (But after that, any reluctance Shinji has is more or less psychological/emotional, and physical pain seems beside the point.)
(EDIT: Also forgot that Toji says, "We saw how much you suffered in the Eva", in the event the audience needed some additional assistance.)
So for you, was the original show somehow too "low-key" about the pain stuff, and they needed glowing, boiling vicarious wounds to get the point across?
simon wrote:I won't forgive them for cutting out Yui's role in saving the day while battling Zeruel. they just disposed of the most awesome climax they could have used in the second movie finale.
I really hated the 2.0 finale, too -- at first. But I'm appreciating it more and more on its own merits. There's something really provocative about it.
As a die-hard Yui fan, I'm also a bit upset that no mention is made of her having a role during the finale (as in #19, what with the whole "she's awakened" bit), but things also seem a bit too weird to attribute everything that's happening to Shinji. Of course, that is the impression people tend to get, but it definitely remains to be seen if that impression is correct.
The supreme irony of the finale has been often noted. You only seem to be considering the events on an entirely superficial level.
Add me to the RoE haters list
Indifference or ambivalence might be wiser at this point. Last thing you want is for the other movies to come out, discover that the completed work isn't so bad after all, and have to take your foot out of your mouth. Not saying it will happen, but it's a possibility.
I'm really quite fond of the original vaguely humanoid, monolithic Zeruel -- he's like something out of primitive art, and a steadfast, hulking tower of unstoppable power. 
