>>4024652>I don’t really feel like arguing more in this thread.Good. Because you clearly don't understand the intent of the rebuilds, why they were made, what they accomplish, and it's boring to talk to someone who can't grasp that these movies are about Shinji no longer being suicidal.
Shinji doesn't kill Kaworu in 3.0 like he does in Ep. 24, Kaworu kills himself by putting the DSS Choker on himself.
You can REE about how this betrays the intentions of the original all you want, but that's the point of the Rebuilds: Kaworu had to die by Shinji's hand for incomprehensible esoteric reasons in Ep. 24, and that broke Shinji's mind. And this was all great for exploring very intense emotions and intense depression. In 3.0 Kaworu chooses to die for his own incomprehensible esoteric reasons, and Shinji is able to move on.
Whether or not this is narratively satisfying to you, it's about Shinji becoming healthy, which is a satisfying thing to see in my eyes.
You could read the Rebuilds as being about Shinji slowly realizing he can rewrite his own story, and after 3.0 he rewrites things again, this time setting Kaworu free from his role as "tragic fated-to-die angel boy"
You are free to dislike this because it doesn't draw as intense emotions out of you as the show did, but that's kind of the fucking point.
>>4024654Sure. But 4.0 was relatively well received in Japan when it first came out (at least by normal/sane viewers), and (despite my own dissatisfaction with the handling of Kaworu as a gay character, and the dissatisfaction of diehard shippers mad that Mari won the Shinjbowl), it does have merits, and it is ultimately a pretty good and well intentioned film. Even if it handled Kaworu clunkily.
I don't think I can relate to people who aren't able to look at the bigger picture here.
It's a victory lap in the sense that it's Anno saying "I'm doing better with the help of my wife."
