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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zen_hydra" data-source="post: 2295095" data-attributes="member: 6227"><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>