• Shinji ended Evangelion finally doing one great thing (making a choice to return to his flawed individuality and connect with people the difficult, meaningful way)
• Shinji's first meaningful action in the rebuilds is monumentally screwing up everything, gets cucked from Asuka by some other dude, continues screwing up, denied comfort from Rei, who becomes a living doll ("how dare you have feelings for her!!" -- Anno)
• Shinji fails upward into relationship with a living anime figurine, touches grass somehow, end scene

Not to mention the magical realism/space opera arc with Captain Misato of the USS Whale Zoid, Pirate Asuka, and Elton Kaworu is an insult to anyone who took Evangelion as a real story and not just a psychodrama for otaku therapy purposes.

• Shinji ended Evangelion finally doing one great thing (making a choice to return to his flawed individuality and connect with people the difficult, meaningful way)
• Shinji first meaningful action in the rebuilds is monumentally screwing up everything, gets cucked from Asuka by some other dude, continues screwing up, denied comfort from Rei, who becomes a living doll ("how dare you have feelings for her!!" -- Anno)
• Shinji fails upward into relationship with a living anime figurine, touches grass somehow, end scene

Not to mention the magical realism/space opera arc with Captain Misato of the USS Whale Zoid, Pirate Asuka, and Elton Kaworu is an insult to anyone who took Evangelion as a real story and not just a psychodrama for otaku therapy purposes.