>>3177707>Some parts were so hostile, not just towards Rei but also Shinji. Was the original intent to play up both characters only to dash away all the audience's expectations? Or was it a later decision made out of anger from 2.22's ending being mostly well-received?I think it was intentional. 1.0 was to butter up the old fans, 2.0 was if Eva was made today (moeshit) and 3.0 is angry, tired, hollow, and derivative because there's nowhere else for the Eva franchise to go until 4.0.
>>3177896>"It's supposed to be disorientating", "It's Anno being Anno", "people only reacted later!" - what bullshit.Just to be clear when I said it was only later I saw people were upset I meant after I went online and saw the meltdown on /a/, not that people only reacted later: the reaction was immediate.
>What "he" saw is definitely limited to the echo chamber over at evageeks filled with Asukafags and Kaworufags no doubt.I don't go to Evageeks and they are irrelevant anyway given Eva is no longer a rite of passage for weebs.
>Anno did the EXACT OPPOSITE during EoE, where he empowered Rei to a level she had never been before. Whatever "disfigurement" you speak of was nothing detrimental to Rei's character or image, in EoE Rei ends up a force for good and builds on her character from NGE in an amazing way. It was the very last time Rei's character was taken seriously ever, from there on it was all downhill.I don't see the groping, impregnation, dismemberment, body horror, and the falling apart as empowering. All that imagery was meant to make Rei the creepy character Anno tried and failed to make her before. Rei is taken seriously in the film but she was taken more seriously as a character in episode 25/26, most of her screentime in EoE is as a plot device. EoE was pretty bad and it's aging terribly with every passing year. It's just another late 90s clusterfuck with no lasting appeal unlike the TV series.
