I can tell you've not met enough autists in your life to think they aren't capable of lying. You realize there are multiple levels that range from "kinda wierd" to "slamming their forehead into a wall all day?"
I don't doubt he meant it, because he lacks the emotional capability to not think in pure numbers like an autist. He has no loyalty to this land, or these people, or anything that isn't his autistic obsessions. Its why he keeps breeding kids that he has no intention to raise.
I didn't really consider this angle
There are plenty outright sexual bits, but I do think a lot of it is meant to be either directly or subversively motherly instead. Or even just "raw intimacy" like with Kaworu that isn't meant to be gay but just something warm.
Like I felt the entire Rei/Shinji dynamic was meant to be his unsettled feelings towards his mother being driven insane by what was essentially a clone of her in a lot of ways while also still being a hot girl his age. A lot of Eva is Freudian, and therefore that Oedipal Complex is almost certainly intentional to some extent.
I do think there needs to be a lot of consideration given towards Eva when comparing the first half versus the second. Like the first half is a lot more straightforward with being an anime and using its tropes, including the "love triangle/harem" elements of his relationships with all the girls. By the second half almost all sexual elements are played for horror or allegory for something else.
I don't think that was some 4D chess move, they simply ran out of money and Anno's depression spiraled him down the rabbit hole out of just a simple mecha show. It just does work to the show's favor.
Anyone whose ever tried to drive through the crosswalks in front of a major store like Target or Kroger knows that the two most suicidally confident people are old men and white women aged 25-60 (with kids attached).
At least the old men clearly don't give a fuck about dying, but the white women seem to be convinced they are not only invincible but the world runs on their existence.
The ending is a little challenging
I think a lot of people also don't seem to grasp that the entire last two episodes of the series, where Shinji is monologuing and rambling is meant to be his experience going through Instrumentality in the last few minutes of the movie. Including the "high school AU fanfic" type scene being the perfect world its meant to create for everyone. And that the entire Congratulations meme is him finally rejecting it, leading to the final final scene of the movie on the beach where its obvious Asuka did the same.
I figured that much out just watching it, without needing some lore guide, so its mind boggling how many people struggle with something so basic. It doesn't fit perfectly, but it fits well enough that Hideaki "I was just making shit up as I went" Anno can't deconfirm it either.
Anno went way overboard with the sex imagery in the Third Impact
The whole series has a wierd relationship with sex. A lot of it comes from its constant insistence on intimacy and motherhood themes, which will come across as sexual if adults partake in it. So a lot of things I think were meant to be beautiful and wholesome, evoking feelings of being born and bringing life to the world at times, as well as the obvious horror of perverting that natural beauty come across instead of overtly sexual because its just offputting that way.
The plot of Jurassic World is directly stated that they stopped creating things accurately as they could to science to instead create specifically the super predators and beef them up for spectacle's sake in their zoos.
Its exactly why the entire plot of the movie happens, they eventually create one too big to control and contain.
Which is the exact thing I am afraid of them doing in this case. Its one thing to bring rhinos back, its another to bring back megafauna even if the megafauna will absolutely bring in 1000x the funding.
Jurassic Park is far more grounded than that kind of lofty "playing god" type of fuck up, as it only goes wrong when a retarded fat man sabotages everything at the worst moment.
Elon is an autist with a contrarian streak. He will be on whatever side is the opposite of what's earning his ire and mockery that day.
That's why he is both a useful tool right now and a dangerous liability to be watched outside of the narrow scope.
That still applies to most of the ultra rich men in the world.
Its just the majority of those are Leftists, so they are allowed to operate in the shadows and not be named or criticized unless they allow it, and they get a fraction of this reaction despite often being far worse in terms of damage caused.
The Left doesn't understand that most corners of the Right right now are salivating for Trump to just say something like "suck my balls and kill yourself."
That's how little respect we have for them, their authority, and their journalists/politicians and any treatment of them will be met with applause.
They thought they had a monopoly on quips and sass and all those forms of flippant nonsense, and now they cannot understand how someone could be so mean. :(
Yeah exactly.
Like I see the net positive this could be. It has immense value on returning necessary parts of the ecosystem today like the rhino and other endangered things.
But instead its gonna just be used to create predators that are locked in cages forever for no reason just because we can, and that's the best case scenario.
Shinji ended Evangelion finally doing one great thing
The fact that to this day people still treat the end of EoE as this incomprehensible puzzle shows how fucking stupid most of them are.
Just like the entire rest of the series, half of what is happening is meaningless words and references meant to look cool (like why Angels have blue blood type being a random Japanese movie from the 70s), and the rest is pretty easy to figure out what its getting at.
Its literally a culmination of the message of the entire series, that they repeat so often its comical. Hedgehogs can't huddle for warmth without hurting themselves, but they do it anyway because its better than running away from the pain forever.
On top of what Shadow said, Anno was interviewed multiple times over the years saying he hated Eva, hated his fans, and generally hated everything about his life/career before he hit it big in the 00s. And even then he resented being known as the Eva guy.
Numerous parts of the Rebuild is deliberately designed to "subvert expectations" in the worst way. The entire writing of Asuka specifically was one of them, as was the ending using his "OC of his literal wife" as the winner of a 30 year waifu debate.
Completely divorced of its outside context pieces, its just a generic mecha series. Which makes it all the more apparent that Anno's entire goal with it was to shit on the original instead of either directly adapt with a bigger budget or create something with new ideas using his new outlooks on life.
I think that was the point of the Jurassic World movies, at least the first one. They basically cleaned the slate and managed to get a fully functional park.
And then they needed bigger "wows" so they kept splicing shit more and more until they created something so ridiculous that it outsmarted them and they weren't able to easily put it down either.
Heck the two Jurassic World Evolution games by Frontier showed how easy it was to fall into the trap yourself, with more insane monsters being let loose to fight each other giving you massive short term boosts but then you have a nightmare of an aggressive creature bred for combat that you have to keep caged somehow.
The details of the story are really just an irrelevant inevitability. The way they talk about "chaos theory" is self-indulgent jerk off material, but its not entirely wrong.
At the end of the day, humans are flawed and people with less than pure intentions will always come into the power and control of these technologies and animals. And that means something bad will always end up happening with them. Whether that's something small or "The Chinese let a TRex loose in NYC as retaliation for tariffs" level retarded.
Trump with no fear of needing relection is at the very least the most funny president we have ever had. Just his casual attacks on people in venues they are so used to being stiff and scripted that they can't even form a response.
Its what the Dems desperately wanted Obama to be, but his forced memes were always at the expense of other Americans who didn't vote for him instead of political names.
Sans the one time he tossed out a "thanks Obama" over a cookie, I'll give him that one.
Its probably a wonderful move for modern conservation efforts and the ability to undo man's damage in driving a lot of animals to extinction. We need this level of science just to counteract the damage the Chinese have done just for boner meds alone.
But that's the noble goal, we all have seen how bad it can go in the hands of less capable men. And Jurassic Park was a noble but misguided man doing his best, the actual abuses of this will be horrifying.
No defense of it will make up for the fact that it was made with spite to the very people and IP that made Anno famous.
Its literally the Joker 2 of anime, except instead of a single bad movie everyone mocked it was a 10 year quadrilogy that a bunch of tourists defend.
Feminism has always maintained that they can do anything men can do (meaning they see us as equals) except in cases where they are superior. This was their case for deserving more privileges.
So to acknowledge that men have extreme superiority across basically all sports would undermine nearly all types of feminism. From the radical to even the milquetoast, admitting that they are weak (and thereby in need of the bonds of "patriarchy" or just men for protection) goes against their stated ideologies in all forms.
Yeah, the Switch version lacks the major tech problems (like severe lag around lightning) of the WiiU but the Sheikah Slate is literally just the WiiU Gamepad. Like you'll have access to your map and many of your functions just on the little screen between the buttons instead of it being part of the game UI. It is by far the best way to play the game and is a great proof of concept for the WiiU's functionality if fully realized.
It just came far too late to save the console and that functionality was highly limited if the entire game wasn't built to support it. And even then it could fail like Star Fox Zero did.
I absolutely hate the game itself, but the WiiU version using the gamepad is a legitimately solid experience for just how well it does work for what its trying to do.
It was a WiiU game, it was propaganda for their own peripheral to try and save a failing system, the same way Skyward Sword did for the Wii.
Try playing it on the WiiU and most of the design decisions make far more sense and almost every aspect of the system shows how it was deliberately designed with the Gamepad in mind to show how amazing it could be.
They just decided midway through development that the console couldn't be saved and then turned it into a launch title for the Switch instead, even if that is the worst version of the game.
Honestly, if that's the only reason then its a fine one. But let's not pretend that isn't waifuism instead of a mark of quality.
It does show you have a low bar for waifus though, as she is deliberately designed that way and is the only non-malicious part of the Rebuilds. As in, she was literally Anno simping for his own fucking wife and making her the "canon winner" of the series.
I think him being an Angel removes any sexual aspect to it, as he was too "pure" for such sinful and simple desires. That might be me reading too much into the Angel thing as a whole, but I think to shackle him with something so simple as just homolust is almost too humanizing of such an otherworldly being.
In a way doing so is reminiscent of Gendo's failure to understand Rei and how far above his control she had grown, making it a really wild case of audiences emulating in universe character's failures.
I do think a lot of the pieces were already in place from the outset, because as you said its all being set up from almost moment one. But I think the way it unfolded and the brutality and extremity of it in the latter half wasn't fully set from the outset.
In the same way a lot of the most famous shots like the long tension before killing Kaworu or the elevator were brought about by literal money issues, I feel the series without Anno's breakdown and the company's issues would have continued along a path it was already set on but landed a lot differently.
Rebuild proves that in many ways.
You don't even need his words for that. Almost every Rei we see is subtly or even overtly different from the last. I remember reading a speculation a long time ago that every single one we see was a new clone, though its been so long I can't remember if that violates lore or not.
Either way, Reifags are literally obsessed with an empty slate and this is why they are the biggest losers. Asuka always winning, 30 years on.