I would have loved to see Anno actually make a serious attempt at following up 2.0 and giving Eva an interesting new ending. Still, I'm not sure he's capable of it. If he's not, I think the direction he went is way better than half-assing a serious go at it.
Even if Eva 4.0 is a complete flop and doesn't deliver on either serious plot or crazy, we will always have the end of Rebuild 2.0. For that, I will always be grateful to the rebuild films. If that's all we get, than it's still worth it.
I think I would have preferred a serious follow up to 2.0, and I think most people would have, too, but again, I can't really argue that making the viewer go "No I don't want this go back to the way it was please" was kind of the point of a film entitled "You Can (Not) Redo", and that that reaction fit the theme of the film.
Like, 3.0 was a bad movie, but it definitely got what it wanted to do done. For better or worse.
I'll be there to see 4.0 and watch it multiple times no matter how much it sucks anyway, so I guess I can't complain too much.
Its doing good for her! Btw I like that as slap to Ibuki's naivety.. I don't see Domeki as sympathetic, but her wackiness are fun.. Very memorable character, and her quote about humanity should just got used with Heterodynes as one of natural disaster are really unique in mecha show that usually just want to get rid of these monsters forever.
But what Domeki did WASN'T good for Ibuki. Ibuki freaked out when she told her that, froze up in front of a Heterodyne, and almost cost everyone their lives because Domeki did all of that. IF Ibuki had needed to hear all of that (and I don't think she did, since in the last episode she concludes that Domeki was still wrong, and that her father's reaction to seeing a Heterodyne wasn't what she was saying, but was more like Akagi's reaction to seeing a Heterodyne), then there was undoubtedly a better way of telling her this.
My problem with Rika wasn't that she told her that, it was that she forced it on her in a horrible, intrusive way that literally caused her to crash and almost killed the whole team, and then Rika never apologizes or takes responsibility for what she has done. It's positively monstrous. She doesn't care about anyone or anything going on, so when she says that humanity should get used to the threat of Heterodynes, it comes across as apathetic, and in contrast to the cast, who are busting their asses every day to save mankind from these things.
Domeki acts all sappy, but she's an apathetic jerk asshole.
Victory Gundam 17
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