The Anti-Escapism Themes of "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
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True, my point isn't that it isn't deep.
Its that the meme of "SO DEEP ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW WHATS GOING ON!!" When its pretty easy to follow even until the end when shit starts going well off the rails as long as you pay attention and don't chase rabbits going nowhere.
Then again, most people skip Death/Rebirth thinking its just a clip show, so they end up missing most of the context needed for EoE's last chunk and the entire understanding of Instrumentality and Shinji's rejection of it.
Yea, I think it's really the last couple episodes where people get lost. Without watching the movie as well that would be incredibly hard to piece together.
Right, I could understand a Japanese person getting messed up watching it as it aired and not having the full collection. Same with US in the West seeing it on Adult Swim back in the day (did the movie even air there? I don't remember seeing it ever).
But that's 15+ years ago, so people relying entirely on their ancient memories without ever finishing the series are foolish.
Not sure I follow your train of thought there. Anyone can watch it for the first time at any point, and watch as much or as little of it as they want. We aren't bound to TV schedules and release dates. I feel as though you're trying to invent situations in your head that make it easy to look down on people who may or may not even actually exist.
My point being that if you came away massively confused because you were watching it as it aired, that makes sense. EoE came out over a year later in Japan from the end of the series, and I'm not certain if it ever aired on US TV. Without the complete package, it can be hard to understand the finales.
I was giving benefit of the doubt to people who call it incomprehensible that they hadn't watched the entire series at once, and their understanding was piecemeal of childhood TV watching and then watching the movie years later.