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It should therefore be uncontroversial to say that the last two television episodes are quickly cobbled-together replacement things that share a family resemblance with the more mundane clip show episodes of the era. But as with all artistic things, it's the reception that matters, and these two episodes were [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible infamy boosters of the highest caliber]. Consider a parallel world where the production issues weren't so overwhelming and the intended story scenario stayed on track, resulting in an EoE-lite TV ending, with perhaps two or three compilation movies afterwards. Somehow I doubt Evangelion would have gained the same levels of cult following in that situation. | It should therefore be uncontroversial to say that the last two television episodes are quickly cobbled-together replacement things that share a family resemblance with the more mundane clip show episodes of the era. But as with all artistic things, it's the reception that matters, and these two episodes were [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible infamy boosters of the highest caliber]. Consider a parallel world where the production issues weren't so overwhelming and the intended story scenario stayed on track, resulting in an EoE-lite TV ending, with perhaps two or three compilation movies afterwards. Somehow I doubt Evangelion would have gained the same levels of cult following in that situation. | ||
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|comment=There's a rather heavy dose of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealitySubtext reality subtext] that Gainax wanted to avoid. Episode 25 aired on March 20, 1996, exactly a year after the infamous Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult killed 13 people and crippled many more on the Tokyo subway using sarin nerve gas. One of the main reasons for ''not'' sticking to the original Episode 25 script was because the sight of the headquarters of a pseudoreligious organization being stormed by authorities - which happened to Aum soon after the gas attack - would have seemed like something ripped from the headlines and insensitively placed center stage in an anime series that already sailed disturbingly close to the wind when it came to referencing the state of Japan. Evangelion would have gained infamy, all right, but not of a sort ''anyone'' would've wanted.}} | |||
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