Once you learn about the “parental estrangement epidemic,” it’s impossible not to see the Golden Child x Scapegoat x Lost Child pattern in nearly all of them.
"I watched a piece of art the way the artist intended it to be experienced, with my full attention and no distractions in a big room with other people, and I loved it. hmm. must be fake. obviously the real metric of quality is whether I'm equally impressed while on the toilet."
The fun thing about evangelion is that as heady and deep and whatever people make it out to be, it's still anime, and will have shit like a pilot whipping a mech around with a big ass steering wheel like a '72 el camino