Hello all,
Well, I just finished to watch (yeah I know, I'm darn late) Neon Genesis Evangelion (the series and the "end" movie).
I'm somehow confused, like when I just watched a David Lynch movie - the feeling that's there's something huge that I think I understand, but reaches farther than I can grasp.
Knowing the number of sci-fi aficionados on these boards, I thought maybe you had interesting theories about the series, hence this thread, intended to discuss... the symbols, the plot, the motivations of it all.
Well, to begin the discussion, I watched End just after eps 25-26 and I think it was a bad idea because that made too much info at the same time.
I however feel the movie is near to useless - eps 25 & 26 give a nice conclusion, as for the Human Instrumentality project completed. Now we don't know what was SEELE's objective compared to Gendo's, but...
...from where I stand, it appears End states that, at the difference of the series, SEELE's project was completed.
...Yet I fail to see any difference between the final result for humanity in the series and the movie: all finally become one. (The only difference being Shinji who refuses this evolution in the movie, while he comes to terms with himself in the series).
What do you think?