Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

It's not deep, you're just pretentious. This show is like the emperors new clothes of anime. Everyone rushes to defend the completely nonsensical ending as being some sort of master work of sophistry and artistic expression. Did you ever stop to consider that actually, it's just really stupid? Maybe there was no deeper message trying to be expressed, and the story is just bad. Okay it would be really cynical of me to just say that it's impossible to derive deeper meaning from a creative work than what's on the surface. Believe me, I get that. Part of story telling is the lessons that can be learnedfrom it and how it can parallel things in our own lives. But when you go all in on just the themes and forget to tell a story, now I'm just in a classroom and you're boring me.

An excellent story will entertain while it gets it's central themes across. A strong central theme does not in and of itself make a good story. The final act of Evangelion is literally the cast turning to the camera and telling us the story didn't matter and it's all about the themes and symbolism and imagery and other pretentious crap. If I have to look a bunch of stuff up or watch a 4 hour video essay dissertation on why a show was actually good, maybe it really wasn't that good.

I know that they tried to address issues of what really happened at the end of Evangelion in the movie... End of Evangelion... but I was so mad at how this series ended and how much people spew about how good it is anyway that I refused to watch it. You had your chance Evangelion, I no longer care, this franchise can burn in hell.

6/10