Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

The show reminds me of the question is the sky blue. At first glance a seemingly stupid question, till you really get involved with it. If you go on to talk about the physics of it you could actually discuss this question for awhile, but if a kid asks it, the answer is a simple yes, leave me alone. The main premise: a boy is made to fight aliens, though he believes himself to be worthless and is battling depression (never stated but pretty sure it was implied). Every episode is set up with care, a battle with the aliens progressively gets worse and bringsabout a poor emotional reaction from the main character, but he struggles through and survives. Its a good set up, but it never goes past that. Based on all the debates I thought it would be thought provoking, instead it asks how do you overcome insecurities and depression, to which it answers, you fight, now go about your business - just like with the child and the sky being blue.

I think people are giving the show credit for asking the question, and then in the viewer thinking about it and slowly answering the question themselves are mistakenly giving the show credit for being thought provoking. Sure I thought about some of the ideas it brought up, but the show itself never gave me anything past the initial question to think about. Watching it was a struggle and I only finished it because I wanted to be able to say I saw it and then give an honest mediocre review .