>>9552>shit takeWrong.
>rather have had the whole thing be done in traditional cell mediumSO you admit it's worse than the budget original series?
>but since the reality is that can't be done Why not? There are plenty of animators and they already work for shit-wages anyway. Anno took as much time as he wanted making this sequel and still managed to fail to use good 2D stuff. The CG was passable but clashes with the 2D background and is cluttered as fuck.
> there *real life* shotsThat's nothing new, Anno did all of that in the original series' final episodes during Shinji's breakdown. He ripped off his own ending.
>the plot was enjoyable, I could follow it better than the other eva movies actually. Better than the first two? Not in my opinion - those stories followed the original NGE plot and somewhat made sense, this just feels like a mecha fantasy a la Darling in the Franxx. Being better than 3.0 is not a major achievement.
>deep dive into each character's thoughts at the end Again, same as the original, but worse.
>good character progressionhahaha what!? Where? None of the characters are even their original selves except for the adults and pink sloot. Rei wants to be a farmer and falls apart, Asuka remains an angry midget with mood swings, Shinji repeats his mood swings just like in the past 2 movies, Misato apparently abandoned her own child and be angry all the time, Ritsuko is a paper-cut half-heartedly pandering to the lesbian fans because "muh yuri fanfiction". It's all so tiresome. To someone approaching Evangelion for the first time or having watched the originals a while ago, this may not be apparent, but it is to me, which is why I loathe it.
Sure this is passable entertainment but frankly, if I wanted that, I wouldn't be watching Evangelion for that.
>a great finale to an amazing seriesNot to me
>purist Ok, lets go with an analogy, Godfather and Godfather II are some of the most well known films about the Mafia and are acclaimed as cinematographic masterpieces, yet the third film is hated. The Third film isn't all that bad, but a lot of the things it introduces and does makes it's good content feel inane and out of place, and feels like a low effort imitation of the original. If the rebuilds were stand-alone films unrelated to NGE completely then there wouldn't be a problem, and I dare say people wouldn't dunk on it, but it's precisely because it banks on the success of the original series and its own hype, that makes it so egregious to me.