rei's VA being able to sound alive might just be the biggest plot twist of the whole show

also I had no idea gainax pioneered liminal space pics two decades ahead of time by shoving random photos into the episode

all things considered I can see why people disliked these last couple episodes back in the day, this is one hell of a weird way to end a show, but what they are is not really anything not seen before

some of the other second-half episodes also do this kinda deep insight into characters' psyches so it doesn't feel of place at all

a bunch of sentences said ep25 and 26 also kinda resonate strongly, it's interesting

I think the biggest mistake gainax made was releasing these episodes when everyone expected them to be the definitive end of the story, without knowing the end of evangelion movie was gonna come out eventually (I have no idea what that's like but I'm pretty sure it's less of a disappointing ending than this)

so tl;dr: I treated these like normal, non-ending episodes and I enjoyed them because of it. if they really were the final piece of evangelion's original storyline (so excluding rebuild and whatever other reboots etc), I would've probably been left quite disappointed - not pissed, cause after all 25&26 fit in pretty well with the rest of eva, but it would've def felt like something big was missing, way too many loose ends

I guess I'll watch end of eva tomorrow, idk what to expect but I hope it'll be a much more satisfying end of the story

oh yeah shinji actually living an illusion of a normal life at the end was quite cool lol

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rei's VA being able to sound alive might just be the biggest plot twist of the whole show

also I had no idea gainax pioneered liminal space pics two decades ahead of time by shoving random photos into the episode

all things considered I can see why people disliked these last couple episodes back in the day, this is one hell of a weird way to end a show, but what they are is not really anything not seen before

some of the other second-half episodes also do this kinda deep insight into characters' psyches so it doesn't feel of place at all

a bunch of sentences said ep25 and 26 also kinda resonate strongly, it's interesting

I think the biggest mistake gainax made was releasing these episodes when everyone expected them to be the definitive end of the story, without knowing the end of evangelion movie was gonna come out eventually (I have no idea what that's like but I'm pretty sure it's less of a disappointing ending than this)

so tl;dr: I treated these like normal, non-ending episodes and I enjoyed them because of it. if they really were the final piece of evangelion's original storyline (so excluding rebuild and whatever other reboots etc), I would've probably been left quite disappointed - not pissed, cause after all 25&26 fit in pretty well with the rest of eva, but it would've def felt like something big was missing, way too many loose ends

I guess I'll watch end of eva tomorrow, idk what to expect but I hope it'll be a much more satisfying end of the story

oh yeah shinji actually living an illusion of a normal life at the end was quite cool lol

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rei being replaced by her third (and likely last) iteration and losing her recent memories was pretty sad, seeing how far rei 2 had gotten in terms of showing emotions and generally not being a mostly hollow yes-man

asuka seems to have completely gone off the deep end after the last episode's events

unit 01 seems to work surprisingly well all things considered, after it awakened yet again a few eps ago

the official confirmation that rei has been cloned to hell and back didn't hit me as hard as it was prob supposed to, the concept of the clones being a source of "spare parts" was interesting though

still a mystery what exactly happened with adam, but it's cool how its name and that of evas have been weaved together

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rei being replaced by her third (and likely last) iteration and losing her recent memories was pretty sad, seeing how far rei 2 had gotten in terms of showing emotions and generally not being a mostly hollow yes-man

asuka seems to have completely gone off the deep end after the last episode's events

unit 01 seems to work surprisingly well all things considered, after it awakened yet again a few eps ago

the official confirmation that rei has been cloned to hell and back didn't hit me as hard as it was prob supposed to, the concept of the clones being a source of "spare parts" was interesting though

still a mystery what exactly happened with adam, but it's cool how its name and that of evas have been weaved together

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hallelujah playing while asuka was getting - in her own words - brainfucked was the wildest tonal dissonance in the history of entertainment I think

also oh hey they pulled the spear out of adam, I'm actually surprised things didn't take a cataclysmic turn within the next five minutes

doubt that'll remain the case for long though

speaking of "what could possibly go wrong", a whole NINE evas getting produced in mass, shortly after at least two instances of an angel clearly showing the ability to take them over

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hallelujah playing while asuka was getting - in her own words - brainfucked was the wildest tonal dissonance in the history of entertainment I think

also oh hey they pulled the spear out of adam, I'm actually surprised things didn't take a cataclysmic turn within the next five minutes

doubt that'll remain the case for long though

speaking of "what could possibly go wrong", a whole NINE evas getting produced in mass, shortly after at least two instances of an angel clearly showing the ability to take them over

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damn that's a LOT to unpack in just one episode, straight up serious-analysis-needed territory

my hunch over the evas' name has been confirmed, and the one over rei's origin has been both strengthened and made a lot deeper than I originally thought

let's see how much I can sort everything out in my head till I watch the next episode this evening

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damn that's a LOT to unpack in just one episode, straight up serious-analysis-needed territory

my hunch over the evas' name has been confirmed, and the one over rei's origin has been both strengthened and made a lot deeper than I originally thought

let's see how much I can sort everything out in my head till I watch the next episode this evening

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alright NERV got off way lighter than I would've ever thought

I had rather expected unit 01 would've stayed berserk for at least another episode but nope, it turned off offscreen which kinda feels like a copout 😭😭 gainax must've realized late they drove themselves into far too cramped of a writing corner with the last episode

anyway this sure was a standout episode, it gives me the strong feeling they didn't have it in them to animate a whole ass new ep lmao, still the episode is good for what it is and while the deeper dive into shinji's psyche doesn't reveal anything that new or unexpected, it's fitting for the show and doesn't feel like straightup filler

same couldn't be said about the end though, I wouldn't have expected eva to pioneer netflix's trademark filler sex scene some 20ish years ahead of time lmfao

also I didn't really like how shinji just kinda appeared again out of nowhere, felt uncharacteristically cheap

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alright NERV got off way lighter than I would've ever thought

I had rather expected unit 01 would've stayed berserk for at least another episode but nope, it turned off offscreen which kinda feels like a copout 😭😭 gainax must've realized late they drove themselves into far too cramped of a writing corner with the last episode

anyway this sure was a standout episode, it gives me the strong feeling they didn't have it in them to animate a whole ass new ep lmao, still the episode is good for what it is and while the deeper dive into shinji's psyche doesn't reveal anything that new or unexpected, it's fitting for the show and doesn't feel like straightup filler

same couldn't be said about the end though, I wouldn't have expected eva to pioneer netflix's trademark filler sex scene some 20ish years ahead of time lmfao

also I didn't really like how shinji just kinda appeared again out of nowhere, felt uncharacteristically cheap

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HOW HAS EVERYTHING MANAGED TO GO EVEN MORE WRONG THAN IN THE LAST EPISODE???????? I mean this is more or less what I foresaw, with unit 00 being half broken and shinji having given up right before a new angel would've struck, but I expected NERV to just use the dummy plug (which would've gone catastrophically wrong anyway)

but no????? it's even worse than that?????????? unit 00 is completely trashed (possibly with rei dying as well but I'm sure the entry plug shielded her from just enough damage), 02 is literally torn to pieces all the while 01 has gone completely out of control to an extent worse than that of the dummy plug incident WHILE SHINJI IS STILL INSIDE (and likely unable to get out anytime soon considering the entry plug seems to be buried under at least a full meter of flesh all around)?????????????

where the fuck do you go from here??? this feels like the kinda really tough corner a story would avoid getting itself into but eva just went and did that (WITH A WHOLE TEN MORE EPISODES LEFT STILL)

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that didn't just go sideways, that did ten whole barrel rolls FAST

gotta love how they based the dummy plug off rei in particular, it's not like she's literally the most unpredictable pilot out of everyone after all

anyway if angels can just take over evas like this now wtf are the next angels gonna be like

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that didn't just go sideways, that did ten whole barrel rolls FAST

gotta love how they based the dummy plug off rei in particular, it's not like she's literally the most unpredictable pilot out of everyone after all

anyway if angels can just take over evas like this now wtf are the next angels gonna be like

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suzuhara is the 4th pilot????????? in hindsight it makes sense (in a non-in-universe way) cause he's the only person in shinji's school who has a standout design but still that was unexpected as hell

he seems to be the most neurotypical of the pilots so far but I'm sure the show has just never gone in depth about him

also something tells me he's either gonna die or smth bad is gonna happen fast cause I've NEVER seen him in random fanart or out of context memes over the years, unlike shinji, asuka and rei

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suzuhara is the 4th pilot????????? in hindsight it makes sense (in a non-in-universe way) cause he's the only person in shinji's school who has a standout design but still that was unexpected as hell

he seems to be the most neurotypical of the pilots so far but I'm sure the show has just never gone in depth about him

also something tells me he's either gonna die or smth bad is gonna happen fast cause I've NEVER seen him in random fanart or out of context memes over the years, unlike shinji, asuka and rei

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I was so damn right this is where the show gets serious again, best episode since the early ones

after kaji teasing at a lot of the picture being hidden from her, and ritsuko lying to her with a straight face, misato seems to have nearly reached a breaking point with the NERV leadership

unit 01 appears to go berserk again and this appears to alarm everyone more than last time from ep2 for some reason

ritsuko confirms evas are copies of angels

and of course shinji's inner dialogue that feels like it might change something in him permanently..?

ep16 was seriously absolute cinema

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I was so damn right this is where the show gets serious again, best episode since the early ones

after kaji teasing at a lot of the picture being hidden from her, and ritsuko lying to her with a straight face, misato seems to have nearly reached a breaking point with the NERV leadership

unit 01 appears to go berserk again and this appears to alarm everyone more than last time from ep2 for some reason

ritsuko confirms evas are copies of angels

and of course shinji's inner dialogue that feels like it might change something in him permanently..?

ep16 was seriously absolute cinema

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shinji's dad is capable of expressing CONCERN????? granted not for his own son but I'm sure shinji wouldn't mind such a trivial detail

also why is it that every time shinji gets deployed in unit 01 he gets +30 trauma points within the first minute 😭😭 it'd be borderline funny if it wasn't terrifying to put yourself in his shoes

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WHY DID THEY GIVE ASUKA'S PLUGSUIT AN INFLATION FEATURE

also the volcano dive really was tense, I thought something was gonna go really wrong but nuh uh

way too many positive episodes in a row, I'm expecting a catastrophe anytime now

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