Neon Genesis Evangelion's Last Two Episodes are the Best ... Better Than the Movie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2024
- Neon Genesis Evangelion's last two episode have always been a controversial topic among most of its fans, much of it based in misinterpretations and lack of understanding in the series, so here is an argument of why its finale happens to be two of the best episodes in the entire franchise and dare I say better than its film.
This analysis is beautiful and well written man, I rewatched it alot during school hours, I hope the best for you
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I always thought that TV 25/26 goes alongside of End of Eva together. In End of Eva, Shinji was meant to be the last one to get turns into orange soup. But he seemingly rejected it at the last second without much thought. I don't think it went into details of why or how he as able to do so....
The TV endings probably happened when he lost consciousness. So when he finally overcome his thoughts, accepted who he is. He was able reject Instrumentality.
Thank you, I'm glad people agree with me.
You're welcome, same here as well.
@@lonelyboyadventurer1033 I still do love End Of Evangelion, but there's just something anout the last 2 episodes that just made me happy in a way I never expected when I first watched them.
I prefer the movie because I like stuff about NGE beyond exploration of the main cast's psyche (of which the movie still does). I like the lore, giant monster battles, and absurd mayhem.
I've just watched the TV series recently, although before that I also know some stuff about discussions relating to the TV endings/ movie ending, and now after watching the TV ending I think that the reason people don't like the TV ending is because of something close to self-denial. The last two episodes are honestly not hard to understand at all. We see that after that Kaworu guy is squashed by Shinji, the Human instrumentality project begins, and we are then treated with an exploration of several characters's psyche, which shows their insecurities, .. And finally Shinji is shown watching these characters speaking their thoughts, so now he knows that he is not the only one who has these kinds of thoughts. Also, the alternative life scene where Shinji is happy in school is simply that he could have been more active with others. The freedom scene shows that it is necessary to not live alone, etc ... Thus the story ends in an appropriate manner, with Shinji realizing that others also have problems like he has and that he has to take care of himself, which is literally the final episode's title. We know that at this point, the 3rd impact has probably happened, maybe a lot of humanity now lay dead, and there is also the HIP project. But it does not matter. Our main character is now a renewed man, he can take care of himself instead of drowning in his own thoughts.
And so can the Japanese otaku audience. Or at least the author thought so. But apparently you can't cure otaku/hikiomori stuff by watching two Evangelion episodes, so the author had to make up some movies for it. Now with the rise of isekai, the anime fans have become more and more immersed in their own fantasyland, which is completely contrary to the author's expectations. Of course they have become thus, because you simply can't cure those stuff by making anime episodes.
So I think the TV ending is actually very easy to understand. It literally spoon feeds you the message. But people hate it because of its literal meaning.
Definitely an interesting take on the opinions surrounding of the finale.
@@lonelyboyadventurer1033 Thank you :)
Perfectly well put review from start to finish imo
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Great analysis man, I've always found it weird that people trash the last two episodes as bad as they do. There is a lot of important dialogue and imagery in those last two episodes and that version of conclusion for Shinji is brilliant. However the movie is almost just as important, admittedly I wouldn't have watched Evangelion at all if I didn't see some scenes from the movie out of context and think what the fuck was that about? Now I need to know.
But like you said the movie is like episode 24,5 of the series. The last two episodes and the movie are pieces of the same puzzle. While the TV show ending is brilliant in a lot of ways, it does leave out a lot of the answers that the show raised to favor the conclusion of what the show is really about at it's core. I understand and value your point of leaving out certain things that are seemingly important to the plot for focusing on what it's really about, which is the characters. Some questions still needed to be answered. I'm really glad that we got both, the seereal character study that is the last two episodes and the mind bending imagery and resolution to the Adam/Lilith, the human instrumentality project, and Nerve and Seele.
Great points, I definitely think both separate endings overall compliment each other, by allowing their counterpart to achieve its full artistic potential by being able to in fill the other's necessary holes and complete the whole story.
EoE is closer to being episode 24.5 and 27. Essentially, those two episodes take place during the mid credits, and imo during the introspective parts of EoE i.e. after the playground, but all before One More Final. I personally would like to make a supercut of the two, essentially End of Evangelion (not) Complete
People defend 3.33 by saying it's supposed to make you feel like you're experiencing what Shinji is feeling. "It's supposed to be confusing because Shinji is confused." But when it comes to the last 2 episodes of the anime, they don't even bother to defend it by putting themselves in Shinji's shoes.
How do you know those are the same people?
@@kuhpunkt The "3.33 puts you in Shinji's place" defense is often used whenever 3.33 is defended. Sure not everyone argues this, but the ones that do never use the same tactics to defend the final two episodes.
Before I watch this - I'm not separating the last two episodes AND the movie from themselves.
To me this is all a part of a one story.
At first the episodes - and then the movie that concludes the themes.
We have rebuild now which kinda have perfect ending imo
@Zen One
I did enjoy 3+1, much better than what I anticipated, but I still strongly prefer the original.
@@lonelyboyadventurer1033 understandable but honestly 3.0+1.0 is really personal to me it teach me what it mean to be a adult and I am 22
counterpoint: episode 19 was really cool
no shit it's better than the movie its the original ending
@Noodle Boi
I agree, but you'd be surprised at how many people interpret this as a controversial take.
@@lonelyboyadventurer1033 no I'm very much aware there's people who don't agree, however, EoE didn't come out until two years and I'm sure when the people working on it finished the OG they were like nice we did it
It really does look very much like they ran out of money and time. You can tell from the scenes where characters do nothing for like fifteen solid seconds.
R u high
Oh stop the cap, you just want to be "different", the last two episodes repeated the same things over and over, they couldve also been done in 1 episode. Yes, those episodes were good, but repeating the same thing for the thousandth time is just stupid.
@Takaishi Sakuragi
Maybe I just support the human instrumentality project
Hahaha, nope, not even a chance, get over yurself.