Another thing that annoyed me was that it was so epic in 2.0 when shinji struggles through intense pain to find rei and brings her back. Enter 3.0, "oh that rei is gone now"
Anti-climatic to say the least.
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Yeah I know. Regardless, anti-climatic.
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Agreed, but cinematically anti climatic.
shareOnly if the 'climax' you were wanting was for Shinji and Rei to end up together.
They went more in the 'Greek tragedy' route, which has it's own merits.
Wrong. In the second film both Shinji and Rei seemed to come out of their shells and connect to people more, and their relationship helped this. Them ending up together could have been possible (but incredibly creepy) but it wasn't the only route they could have gone.
But here all of it is not so much turned into a tragedy as it is written out of existence. Rei's disappearance isn't used to flesh out the characters, it's a mere plot device to allow the stupid finale to happen. Even in the end it isn't addressed in any way: Shinji's not trying to come to terms with it or accept the new Rei. It not being explained doesn't make it a tragedy, it's only confusing. In the original we knew why Rei was replaced: she got blown up for crying out loud. But here it's just handwaved away, like so many other things.
Life, sadly, is often anti-climatic. Especially when it comes down to relationships.
shareIt's supposed to mirror the events form the TV series when the Angel destroys her in the Eva and Shinji runs to her in the hospital and she says "I must be the third..." Just Rebuild makes it a little more personal than the original run was... still think it's all connected though...
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers... it was Drandul, dude!