Binge

[novarek]

My first impression of Evangelion was that it felt like a show that I would have written as a twelve year-old boy, as it does come across as quite…horny. Shinji, shy introvert, is tasked with piloting a super cool giant robot while living with his hot teacher constantly walking around in towels and her underwear. His two co-pilots are also cute girls, one of whom he ends up living with too, and the other he shares a scene with where he goes to drop something off at her house, finds her getting out of the shower, trips and falls and lands on her naked body. Whoops!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/06/24/neon-genesis-evangelion-on-netflix-a-first-timer-watches-the-controversial-classic/#5cb2e12f312c

I clearly opened Netflix at the wrong time and wasted a weekend rewatching it (and watching End of Evangelion for the first time). Still don't understand how it became a masterpiece but it certainly ages like a classic. Expected more from EoE though, maybe the bar was too high from what I remember hearing about, maybe it ends up falling in the same traps the original ending did.

Big fan of how those budget issues at the end ended up being considered art too.