Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-15 19:57:59 UTC
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@ceruleanspark I'm just agree to disagree here. It's not that EoE has no structure, it's that it eschews conventional structure. It can still be broken apart into 3 relatively coherent acts if you examine the core narrative of the film. I would also disagree that the imagery is deliberately shocking, I feel that sex is an incredibly prolific metaphor throughout not only EoE but also NGE as a show, it's just much more overtly presented in EoE. The characters are given much better emotional closure and act the way they would given their context and motivations up to episode 24 of NGE (wherein we assume EoE picks off from). EoE is also generally the best representation of what ultimately composes Eva: the theme of human interaction that anchors the series. It's not meant to work on formal logic but emotional logic, and Shinji receives great emotional closure to his character arc come the finale of the film. I personally think EoE justifies NGE in pretty much every way.
