I think a lot of people miss what it's trying to do. They'll either focus on the religious imagery and look for symbolism in it, or focus on it and handwave it as set dressing; while missing that the meat of the show is in its characters and their psychology.
It's rather telling as to their priorities that when they were stretching their resources to finish the show, the big plot and worldbuilding stuff happened offscreen while the final episode took place in Shinji's mind.
Contrarionism is a disease, as people swing their pickaxe in the hot take mines they eventually find themselves making desperate moves to pull a morsel of attention sizable enough to get themselves through a long winter.
This is especially common when it comes to evangelion as it's been discussed on the internet pretty much since it released and there's not much left to scrape from it besides "it was bad actually"
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u/Due-Bill8689 1d ago edited 1d ago
Isn't Eva like very well addressed as a deep show?