Reviews

I was very skeptical before watching this film, I am a huge fan of the original show and film and I didn't think they had to be "rebuilt".

It also didn't help that I thought the previous three films kind of sucked (though I did rewatch them before watching this one and I liked them way more the second time).

But, here we are, 9 years after the last Eva film, 24 years after Evangelion's previous theatrical conclusion, we have this movie, a beautifully animated 155 minutes long love letter to the Evangelion franchise and its fans.

This time the ending can satisfy all fans, those who look for great action, those who watch for the surrealist imagery and philosophy, those who love the characters, this movie ties every loose end beautifully.

Only issues I had here were some unnecessary fan-service scenes (though there are fans who watch it for this kind of stuff, I guess) and the 3D CGI fight scenes look kind of jarring sometimes but other than that, this was yet another high quality film by Hideaki Anno and I would highly recommend it.

Bye-bye, all of Evangelion.

Serial Experiments Lain is not really a game, it's more of a Visual Novel, but even calling it that is not accurate, it's mostly a series of audio logs and video files that you can listen to and watch in pretty much any order you'd like and they tell the story.

The story is significantly different from the show as it is more about mental illness than it is about the internet, there are parallels to the show and there are connections between the stories, but for the most part both are two unrelated stories that can be experienced independently.

The story here is truly unique in its presentation and premise and the writing and performances are brilliant.

The "gameplay" experience however, is not very good, the menu in the game is quite slow and clunky, it's annoying, but it's not bad enough to hurt the game, the menu is only a means to an end, and what truly shines here is the story, which is every bit as Brilliant as the the one in the show.

The conclusion to the overall story arc of this season is pretty much perfect and on its own it's a 10/10, but the actual ending scenes are kind of cheesy and unfitting in my opinion Still, an overall great ending to a great season

David Lynch is back, and he's better than ever. This show has everything: David, Lynch, Weather.

From fourth wall breaks to 2001 references to actual important world building this episode was confusing, funny, intriguing and overall really entertaining.