Neo Genesis Evangelion

[The Forsaken One]

and the other, in which Shinji ends up on a beach of blood next to a giant Rei head and tries to choke Osuka.

That ending Allthough imho it wasnt a iant rei head indeed and its nost just blood but essence of people.

The sequence on the beach adds absolutely nothing to the film, other than leaving you shattered, deflated and despairing at the fact that THOSE TWO are the sole surivivors.

That was just the thing that pushed my final feelings over the edge of "What the hell do I actualy feel now", since I understood but what I understood was like, wrong.

Forsaken, if you haven't seen the original final episodes "The Third Impact" and "The Beast that shouts 'I' at the centre of the Earth", do so immediately. Also check out the director's cut episodes, they were greatly enchanced by the otherwise minor additions to them

I have and they rocked Havent seen the director's cuts knowingly though so dunno if I've seenem.

I just watched it again and it ust f00kin' p0wnz.

 

[zen_hydra]

I thought that Eva was a big let down. It was all hyped up to me by a friend of mine to be some sort of deep and religiously symbolic story, but that certainly wasn't my experience. Most of the series was your average anime whiney, reluctant hero dreck, the rest was a ham-handed attempt to name drop religious iconography so that it appeared deep. The direction of many scenes was atrocious, with poor perspective and pauses that last far beyond what is needed to convey the desired effect. The resolution wasn't emotionally relevant to me because the story failed to convince me to care about most of the characters. I did however really like the mecha design, and the mecha combat was pretty good. The writer should have refined his vision a little better in my opinion.

 

[Pants]

My basic reaction to the original ending was "Well that was quite interesting, but what the hell did it have to do with the rest of the series?"

My original feelings as well.
Great character development, but piss poor series finale(s).

I prefer EoE because it manages to do a fairly good job of incoporating most everything about the series, ie the character development, human instrumentality, the angels, Rei, Gendo. It's more cohesive rather than the slapdash feel of the series episodes 25 and 26, which gloss over some rather important events with white text over black background.

True, some people may say that the development of the characters is the most important part, but episodes 25 and 26 leave a lot 'up in the air.' Some people may enjoy that, I didn't and thusly I feel those last two episodes are inferior when compared to End of Eva.