So I'm the dirty scumbag that liked Rebuild more than Neon Genesis (mostly because as neat as all the analysis and such are, I much prefer a more robust story and production). What exactly did people despise about 3.0*?
"more robust story"
Err... what?
Look, I will grant that Rebuild 3.whatever had the best animation ever for all of Evangelion. Which is actually pretty impressive considering that even the original series had pretty decent animation (along with a ton of shortcuts and bad animation to save budget for those gorgeous fight scenes).
However, the story in Rebuild was erratic, nonsensical, and confusing (even by Evangelion standards... which is saying something). I mean, at least the last two episodes in the original ending had place cards and monologues to explain stuff.
Now I don't hate Rebuild 3 as much as most. It actually does work, if you stop worrying about the plot and focus on the symbolism. Of course Kawrou would sacrifice himself for Shinji... instead of magically removing the bomb and getting rid of it he would symbolically have to put it on himself... doesn't make it less of a glaring black hole in the middle of the plot.
But this is Rebuild! Anno has carte blanche to spend as much money as he wants to on these things. He doesn't have to cut corners, or jam everything in, or resort to symbolic representations because he lacks the budget to actually animate the story...
And WHO THE HELL IS MARI! Why haven't we learned one thing about her yet after two movies!?!?!?
Still... at least Rebuild 3 felt like Evangelion, when Rebuild 2 felt... very off.
Rebuild 2 felt like a wrong turn into fanfiction, and so was a bit disappointing. (Asuka being nicer, Shinji getting closer to Rei who tries to build a bridge between Gendo and Shinji, etc.)
Rebuild 3 felt like a fixfic to the fanfiction to make it more Eva like, but with all the hallmarks of a fixfic - hijacking characters to serve the plot instead of following their normal personality, general plot holes all over the place being ignored in a railroad to the preferred solution (which in this case is the bad end, since the waff of Rebuild 2 had to be corrected for...) anvils dropping everywhere... just... bad writing.
Rebuild 2 and 3 are as bad as the Star Wars prequels.
Still going to watch Rebuild 4...
Just like I'm going to watch Star Wars 7.
Interestingly enough Ritsuko is one of very few people with working understanding of angel biology which makes her one of best qualified people to oversee any medical procedure on Rei.
Only other candidates are Fuyutsuki with his metabiology specialization or Maya who is Ritsuko's assistant.
Actually, I suppose Gendo himself might also qualify, since he is a biologist as well, and as I recall it was Gendo and Fuyutsuki that created Rei in the first place. (Had to have been, as it wasn't either of the Akari women).
