My Thoughts on Ep 5 and 6
Okay so I have just finished episodes 5 and 6 of the original series. I’ve just recently thought about making a series of posts to catalogue my thoughts on the series as I watch each episode. It’s to help me process my thoughts on this series, as well as to get your feedback to better help understand the series.
Okay, so starting with Ep 5, I really liked it. It was a pretty good introduction to Rei after 4 episodes of her in the background. The animation as Rei is syncing with the Eva 0 during her second test is genuinely great and abstract, making me wonder how this whole process even works and what it does to someone. The mystery as to why her first test of Eva 0 failed is a pretty good hook, and seeing the tension going on between her and Shinji over his fathers greater concern for her rather than his own son is interesting, as is the tension that causes between them over their different opinions on Director Ikari. The awkwardness between them is, if I had to say, cringe but in a simultaneously endearing and embarrassing way. It kind of feels like how I would act if I was forced in a situation like this. On top of that, the cliffhanger of Eva 1 being shot in the chest by the diamond shaped Angel with Shinji screaming as he felt it was a genuinely chilling end. One commenter I read said to watch this and Ep 6 back to back, and I’m glad they did.
As for Ep 6, I think it was satisfying. Seeing Misato take charge and mainly be the one to come up with the plan to defeat the Angel was pretty good, showing how despite her attitude at home, she is competent at her job and takes the situation seriously, though she is more considerate of the kid’s feelings compared to pretty much every other adult at NERV. Also learning she sucks at cooking, as well as the animation during it did give me a little smile. The mystery as to what happened in Rei’s past, such as why she has no family or friends interests me a lot and I look forward to seeing that explored.
The angel using it’s own beam to deflect the beam from the Eva was genuinely a surprise to me, as I knew in my gut something was going to go wrong, but I wasn’t sure what. And the finale of Shinji opening the capsule in Eva 0 to help Rei like how his father did was pretty nice. I read in a comment in my previous post about something REALLY gross and fucked up was going to happen later in the series, but for know I look forward to seeing these to interact and hopefully become friends.
That’s it for now, I’ll hopefully post tomorrow over episode 7. Thank you and good day!