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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 2293504" data-attributes="member: 8461">I personally liked episodes 25 and 26 of the TV series much better than the movies. While I can understand people saying how the last two episodes of the TV series didn't present a conclusive ending in terms of plot, they were the greatest examples of character development in a series that did an incredible job with interesting, deep characters.I found episode 26 to be incredibly moving, and it left me feelings completely stunned by what it presented. Looking back, I realize now the reason it spoke to me so profoundly was because I have a lot of the same issues as Shinji (my father left me when I was young, and I spent a long time trying, futilely, to get into his good graces so I'd feel worthy of being loved). I consider seeing that to be one of the turning points in my life.In terms of the movies, they do present the same message ultimately (that people are as happy as they make up their minds to be, among other themes), but after having it stated in such a raw, powerful manner at the end of the TV series, the movies lack the emotional intensity it had before, and left it feeling somewhat anticlimactic, despite the plot resolution (IMHO, anyway).A few specific points:[spoiler]Shinji and Asuka are not the sole survivors. Shinji chooses to restore the AT Fields that prevent all souls from merging into one...in effect, undoing the anti-A.T. field that caused people to dissolve. It's a small leap of logic to say that everyone who was alive when they lost their physical bodies had their physical selves restored.[/spoiler][spoiler]This is REALLY splitting hairs on my part, but that was Lillith, the second angel, and not Rei....not wholly, anyway. Rei was part of her, since Rei was a clone of Yui Ikari mixed in with Lillith's genetic material.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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