Post by Arturo Classico on Aug 25, 2010 10:19:33 GMT -5
And oh my god that was the most insane thing I've ever seen. Now I only recently got into NGE although seen various episodes on and off and really did enjoy them but had a marathon of this series and it has to now be my favorite anime.
The psychological aspect of the series was amazing and played perfectly. I love how even though there are giant robot battles that's not what the show is about and the robot battles are actually a tool for the "pilots" to run away from life. Shinji was sort of annoying at times but he was obviously necessary and showed the mental decay of too much pressure and stress put on one person, Rei was okay but wasn't able to feel she was human at all, although maybe that was the point also at first I didn't like Asuka at all but her character was probably on of the best, since she appears to think she's the best but as time goes on her pride gets crushed and revealing her dark childhood at that time was perfect and amazing.
However the ending of the series has to rival 2001, Mulholland Drive and Perona for the WTF factor and it explained everything perfectly but it still made no sense, don't mean that in a bad way just the way the series was structured it was all psychological damaged to the core so there could be little in rational explanations. Also the last scene is maybe one of the saddest scenes I've seen in an animated film. Just awesome.
Thinking of seeing the rebuild movies next but might need a break, just wanted to say how amazing I thought this series was.
The psychological aspect of the series was amazing and played perfectly. I love how even though there are giant robot battles that's not what the show is about and the robot battles are actually a tool for the "pilots" to run away from life. Shinji was sort of annoying at times but he was obviously necessary and showed the mental decay of too much pressure and stress put on one person, Rei was okay but wasn't able to feel she was human at all, although maybe that was the point also at first I didn't like Asuka at all but her character was probably on of the best, since she appears to think she's the best but as time goes on her pride gets crushed and revealing her dark childhood at that time was perfect and amazing.
However the ending of the series has to rival 2001, Mulholland Drive and Perona for the WTF factor and it explained everything perfectly but it still made no sense, don't mean that in a bad way just the way the series was structured it was all psychological damaged to the core so there could be little in rational explanations. Also the last scene is maybe one of the saddest scenes I've seen in an animated film. Just awesome.
Thinking of seeing the rebuild movies next but might need a break, just wanted to say how amazing I thought this series was.
