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Posted this elsewhere before, now reposting as its relevant to this thread:

I'll give my two cents on Evangelion. When I first started watching it, I was interested because it had high production values, cool looking mecha designs and I had heard the name before (though I wasn't aware of the controversy surrounding it at the time).

And for the first half of the show, I was relatively happy with it. The show had some serious flaws - generic, monster of the week storyline and really, really unsympathetic main characters in a story where sympathizing with the heroes is of some actual importance (thanks to loltang).

Shinji came off to me as an angsty emo hiding behind flimsy freudian justifications for his indecisive cowardice, Rei struck me as both unnerving and tailor-made for fetishization by the creepy moe otaku crowd, and Asuka was the quintessential amalgamation of unlikable PMS and RAGE female character.

But it was because the show possessed these flaws that I kept watching it, strangely enough (think about the CODEGEASSCODEGEASS business and you'll understand what I mean). I wanted to see how Shinji would man up and take control of his own destiny, as well as what was masterminding the Angels and the ultimate end of the plot.

This, of course; is why I came to strongly dislike the show. The last couple episodes completely undid any character development that anyone in the cast received over the majority of the series, rendering 2/3 of all the episodes pointless. Furthermore, we didn't even get a real expalanation as to what was going on with the Angels (lol suppplementary material covering plotholes) or their origins. But most insulting of all was Shinji's final line. I seriously believe Anno's face as he decided to end the series with "and to all the children, CONGRATULATIONS (on being trolled into watching this)" looked like this. Pic related.