>>3923475>>3923479I mean ... from my limited understanding of (and limited capacity to care about) what was supposed to be happening in Eva, my interpretation was that Shinji basically rewrites the universe in the end of the show/End of Evangelion.
For multiple IRL reasons, Anno decided to take that as an opportunity to create the rebuilds which are technically sequels to the show/EoE, from the angle that it's basically Shinji himself re-creating the events of the show in a way that he(and Anno) likes.
But the second version of Eva also ends with Shinji re-writing the universe: and he re-contextualizes every character in ways that are simply bad and dumb.
Like I'm not even an Asuka fan, but pairing her up with Kensuke when they've said probably two sentences to each other in the show, and never really shown any interest in each other, is just bad. Like it's actually just bad writing.
Even with all the pretense and meta context of "oh woah, Shinji went into the anti-universe using the spears of cassius and longinus and Eva 1 and 13 to fight his dad at the Golgotha object to rewrite the universe into a happy ending" it's just like ... yea but the ending is badly written regardless of all the "cool eva-ness" of it.
>so if Kaworu in 4.0 looks to you to have normal human issuesI was holding back a bit, but the way Shinji (and I guess Anno) frames Kaworu as he creates his ending to the story from the anti-universe, he basically frames Kaworu as this immortal being that was sort of a pedo attracted to Shinji.
Which I think is very different from his characterization in Ep. 24, as this angel, some kind of unknowable force from on high, taking the form of a human ... who just happens to become attracted to Shinji, and lets Shinji kill him so humans will survive instead of the angels.
Idk if I explained it, and I'm at the char limit, but I think I'm just at the point where I think Eva is really shit. Rebuilds ruined the characters.
