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It's just especially sad since art, unlike a message or speech that is only meant for communaation and steamlined as such, tries to have merits of its own - sometimes it will just have these without communicative intent. but it will still have things it tried to display
So... you're at least TRYING not to hit people on the head with anvils - art that's just preachy without nothing to fill is bad. But you can... perhaps not like but at leasz respect art you dissagree with if the presentation and "self-merit" parts are very good.
There IS some intention to leave you part of a projection space for your entertainment (and the experience of it not doing what you want to can in itself be entertaining, or else, no one would like sad or shocking stories).
Eva leaves you *alot* of that space, lots to puzzle out for yourself, lots that's deliberately left to your interpretation to fill with lining...
So it feels kinda ungrateful to me personally to see ppl go "Lalalala" when it matters.
Supporters often talk about "...ehen it contradicts the work", but how often does that really happen? The works and the statements come from the same space, there's (usually, unless, for example, someone feels they had a better idea and retcons established materia) no competetion as much as there is "elaboration." a narrowing down of possible explanations for the same sets of facts that they may have failed to present as the most likely one with hints or purposefully left open so far (or DID sucessfully present as such, but got the hints consistently explained away )
Example: "Character X is gay". Usually, we never saw that character do anything heterosexual, there may even be hints of having has strong attachments to men in the past... they just didn't come out and say it or screw a man onscreen.
Then, some fan comes and would really like to think the person is just hetero or asexual, maybe because they themselves are. Can they call "contradiction"?
