WTF is the Brillian of Neon Genesis Evangelion that i'm not seeing..?

I watched like 10 episodes and CHRIST was it unbelievably boring and nonsensical. Animation is bad, story is vague, Shoot maybe i'm just not smart enough to see what's good about it but I stopped watching out of boredom. I guess it was cool seeing robot things named after fallen angels from esoteric religious texts

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SW-User

I just saw this after my last response to your PM.

The fact is that I only watched Serial Experiments Lain after seeing Evangelion several times. It was recommended to me because I liked Evangelion so much. I could talk about that show endlessly. I agree though that the most interesting episodes are 15+, including the movie "End of Evangelion".

It really is a fascinating story. You won't get a sense of what it's really about unless you watch the whole series, though. The appeal of Evangelion is what it seems to be at first, what it's not, and what it [i]becomes[/i] as the series progresses. Evangelion seems to be one thing from the outset. By the end it's clear that it's much, much more.

Keraunos · 36-40, M

It's basically shit until around episode 16 give or take, and even then it's an awkward mixed bag of wheat and chaff until the last five or six episodes.

The movies, including both [i]End[/i] and the [i]Rebuild[/i] series, are excellent, however.

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Keraunos · 36-40, M

@AgapeLove Yeah, being deliberately cryptic and challenging to understanding without sitting around and analyzing the story was a hallmark of 1990s Japanese storytelling, and may even have been begun by [i]Evangelion[/i]. It was even imitated by a few American stories at the time like [i]The Matrix[/i].

Honestly, it's been ten years since I've seen it, so I don't remember what you'd miss if you cut ahead. If you lack the patience/attention span to hack through the thicket of the original series, the more recent [i]Rebuild[/i] film series is a complete reboot of the entire story by its creator, and I frankly don't see how anyone could fail to consider it superior to the original unless they are just a zealous fanboy/girl for the old show.

I am of the opinion that [i]End of Evangelion[/i], which was the movie "concluding" the original series, is the best film of all time, though — and I have not seen many movies.

Starcrossed · 41-45, F

Ha weird an hour ago I was just looking through my old dusty dvds to watch something with my kid and paused on NGE.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

I used to watch that years ago.. it was ok at the time

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