Neon Genesis Evangelion Ending Advice

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Just watch it. I rather liked the original ending. It was an hour to examine the human condition, and to examine your place in it. I'm a rather patient person in general. If you can sit through this then 2001: A space oddessy is a piece of cake. Right....Right!?

Maybe not, but you have to be the type of person that enjoys this kind of stuff. I'll gladly take this over all those cute, Moe shows ANYDAY!

Now that I think about it, I think I'll watch 2001 after this. Evangelion has put me in that sort of mood.

Evangelion is actually the first anime I've ever watched. Well I did watch Princess Mononoke and a mediocre one about a witch or something, but I saw them as a little kid and can barely remember either of them.

 

[CelestDaer]

What's up with the sudden influx of threads asking how to watch this or that anime lately? What's wrong with diving head first into the series and enjoying it fully? Maybe on a repeat viewing I could see, "Was there a particular order this series should have gone?"

 

[RikuoAmero]

You could have done what I did, which was have a friend introduce you to NGE by dragging you for a sleepover to his house during the teen years, wait til around 11-ish then pop in End of Evangelion. My mind melted after watching it. At the time, it was the absolutely weirdest craziest thing I had ever seen (obviously, this happened before I saw FLCL). It wasn't til a few years later when I started working that I got the series on DVD before I figured out just wtf was going on. Then I saw 25/26 and my brain didn't just melt, it exploded. Ya know, like in that gif.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/archive/b/b5/20120914120348!Exploding-head.gif

 

[Fox12]

Evangelion is a mixed bag. It's one of the best character studies in the history on animation, and has one of the most accurate depictions of depression in any medium, ever. However, the plot falls apart at the end. All the Christian "symbolism" doesn't mean anything. The writers said they just thought it looked cool, but it means nothing. The post modern philosophy is also terrible. Even my friends who support post modernism consider the philosophy shallow. Verdict: watch it if you love the characters. I know my heart broke for them. Don't try to understand the ending though, it's nonsense. Theres almost no real resolution. The last two episodes were at least interesting, and they actually use the low budget to create a cerebral experience. If you don't care about the things I mentioned then move on to something better. Like Berserk, the best anime ever made.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Also it has moe Rei, so...there's that.

You just love saying that word, don't you.

Would you prefer it if I called her super kawaii desu Rei?

Nah, it's best to use just one somewhat embarrassing word.

 

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So... I just watched the tv ending first and... uh... I don't... blurble?

On to End of Evangelion, I guess. God help me.

Edit: Alright, now that my brain has had a couple of minutes to deslurrify, I've got a quibble. From what I understood before watching the series, Instrumentality was supposed to be some sort of Childhood's End-ish hive-mind togetherness thingamajig, right? It seems to imply that in episode 25, certainly. So why is it then portrayed as a state of complete and total isolation?