by Aeroprism » Tue Jun 17, '14, 11:54 pm
2.22 changed the ending completely, for the best. Then again, it's all according to taste: I found that the original series ending was absolutely terrible and botched. Twenty something episodes of cranking up the pressure to end up with two loooooooong episodes of Shinji wondering: "What is life? Why did Misato not want to get happy with me? Why does my dad hate me? Are birds omnivores?" I have yet to meet someone who wasn't completely disappointed by the original ending.
The two attempts at fixing this with End of Eva and the other one were also terribly disappointing to me. The scene with everyone devolving into protoplasm and Rei growing into a towering high 13 years old before ... uh, actually I don't even remember, what did she do again? Anyways. Random crazy stuff isn't what I was looking for.
In a nutshell, 1.11 and 2.22 are "More EVA, less Shinji pondering his lack of life and being emo" One of the producers said "It's the NGE that new fans can get into easily."
So yeah, 3.33 is the sequel of 2.22 (obviously) and has nothing to do with the series. Basically, it's "So the world ended, now what?" It's action packed, very much military oriented. It's fun, but not nearly as fun as 2.22 so if you didn't like the two first, I wouldn't put my money on this one.