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ItвЂ™s a huge struggle to build up even a vague idea of what went down and thatвЂ™s with heavy deferral back to the TV series again. Which if done a certain way can be compelling though I did not find it to be the case here in the slightest. The oddities and confusions pile up given the glimpsed state of the world, the strange gridded moon, the sea of Eva corpses, the strange state of Lilith in the depths of Nerv.ДЄn awful lot happened while Shinji was (for reasons no one has explained or seems to care about except me) IN SPACE and the film only ever alludes to the sequence of events occurring between these two films in the broadest of strokes. Where the film is a quantum leap away from the mystery terms and slow reveals. About the only part similar to a former incarnation is Kaworu and ShinjiвЂ™s relationship which while not even roughly mapping to episode 24 serves the same function to make Shinji distraught before the climax of this story.Д«ut 3.0 is also the point where that initial premise of the series slams headlong into the drift from familiar territory.

ThereвЂ™s a distinct last third of Nadia feel to it. Which is fair, but even then 2.0вЂ™s bears absolutely no resemblance to 3.0 and even 3.0вЂ™s very strange preview doesnвЂ™t really jibe with 3.0+1.0 ultimately.ДЈ.0 is post-post-apocalypse and with a whole 14 years just evaporated between films. Some will be quick to note that none of the Rebuild previews have entirely accurately advertised their subsequent instalment 1.0вЂ™s features at least one key scene that never happened (Mistao slapping Ristuko in a seeming allusion to the Sea of Dirac Angel) while even the sequences of animation that did make it look nothing alike.

Just not the off-the rails version 2.0 advertised. Kaworu uses an unfamiliar spear to incapacitate Shinji and the preview hints at a story further from the rails than ever.ДЈ.0 is as promised more or less completely divorced from anything Eva had done before. And come the end its time for Third Impact already, Shinji altering the world around him to rescue Rei from the depths of an Angel. The key of Nebuchadnezzar (which does at least re-enter proceedings in the final film, but I am even shakier on what it is or used for вЂ“ even fandom seem to have struggle to explain this as anything other than a blunt drop-in replacement for the Adam embryo in the TV series).

Now we get Mari one of the few wholly new characters who gets to open the second film in a wildly dramatic fashion. Recognisable moments like the falling Angel, the corrupted Unit 03 and the ribbon angel and Unit 01вЂ™s impossible reactivation share the screen with altered relationship dynamics. Kaworu is actively introduced at the tail-end rather than alluded to in the opening titles.ДЄs an intro, its fine (though most would agree the equivalent stage of the TV series isnвЂ™t really a struggle to cope with either), though a few stylistic and environmental changes lead many to conclude this was a direct sequel to End of Evangelion.Дў.0 seemed content to build off of the intro but steer away from the relevant section of episodes вЂ“ roughly 8 to 17. The Angel numbering was off everyone knows Lilith is stuck in the basement, Seele just default to their monoliths. 1.0 more or less leant into its original goal and restaged episodes 1 to 6 of the TV series with a bigger budget, CGI, some more blunt and early reveals and a few weird alterations for the existing fan base. Much was made at the start of Rebuild of the desire to introduce Eva to a new audience.