Neon Genesis Evangelion - End of Evangelion

Some people argue episode 25 and 26 take place during EoE
Others argue that 26's ending is ironic and EoE is an alternate take on the story
What's your interpretation?

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Anno is such a miserable, pessimistic autist that the very concepts of unconditional love and the ability to understand and empathize with other human beings are both embodied by literally alien godlike beings that die by the end of the movie, living on as nothing more than a distant, pleasing memory within Shinji's mind.

Shit is fucked.

I like to think that episode 25 and 26 are Shinji's experience in Instrumentality. It's all trippy because there's a haze to everything. I justify him strangling Asuka in EoE because the high went away, there's a momentary break in people when they walk out of Instrumentality. That's why Asuka is just laying on the floor and that's why she doesn't do anything to defend herself from Shinji. They're both dazed.

Do you think Rei walked out of instrumentality, or did she die? I don't think she dies, she totally walks out of the lcl sea when the show ends. ;_;

Don't expect much (You)'s, OP. This topic has been milked a lot here, there's not much say other than calling you faggot or newfag or whatever.

Anyone who interprets the endings as separate things is literally retarded. Episode 25 shows the first half of EoE, and Episode 26 is just an extended version of Shinji realizing he wants to continue existing.
Episode 25 and 26 are what happens in Instrumentality.
I've seen people say 26 is Shinji "accepting instrumentality" (bad end) and if you actually get that message from the show's ending you are, without a doubt, an actual retard. The only thing that even hints at that is Shinji saying "I want to continue living here," but that's really digging.
Everyone keeps trying to point to some radio interview where Anno says they're separate endings but I cannot find any actual source on this that isn't sketchy as shit.
I will reiterate: only actual bumbling retards think 25 and 26 are a different ending from EoE. In both Shinji learns to love himself and embrace reality for what it is. The only difference is in EoE we see the effects Instrumentality has on the world and that, surprise, meshing everyone's consciousness into one being even if it's just for like 20 minutes is going to fuck a lot of things up.

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My interpretation is that the original ending was poorly received, and so they tried to go the opposite edgy route as a 'fuck you, is this what you wanted?' Unfortunately it ended up muddling any actual ending the series could have had, leading to countless fan theories trying to make sense of it all like .

Tldr: It's a clusterfuck, so just go with whatever.

Forgot to mention, I think there was an interview a while ago with Anno, who said as much as to why EoE was so different in tonality. Something about being disappointed with the reaction to the TV ending...I just can't remember which interview it was.

I thought episodes 25 and 26 were just what happened when Gainax ran out of money again

25 and 26 are so blatantly different from EoE that you have to be purposely trying to project the latter onto the former to see them as the same.
>hurr they wanted to do EoE all along
But what they actually did, and they're open about this, was an improv production where they were finishing storyboards 1 week before airdate and Anno changed his mind every day. 25 and 26 are different from EoE thematically, formally, plot-wise and in terms of the outcome.