Was anyone else frustrated with the lack of answers during their first watch?
I'm rewatching NGE to show it to my partner for the first time. We just finished episode 13 and he's having a mostly good time but is really frustrated with the seeming lack of curiosity from the pilots about what they're doing, the nature of the Angels and the Evas, and NERV. Did anyone else feel similar on their first watch? Admittedly I was caught off guard when he said this, I didn't really think about it during my first watch, and was just excited to get whatever new hint or lore drop was given each episode. Here are some of his questions that he feels the characters should be asking and/or the show should be explaining by now (now being, again, episode 13. I acknowledge many of these questions become more or less answered by the end of the series and EOE):
- Why are they called angels? Where do they come from? How much does NERV know about the angels?
- Why are there only 3 EVAs? Why isn't NERV rushing to build more?
- Why was Unit-01 "linked" to Shinji in the first episode when it protected him from the falling rubble? If the Evas are man-made, why would NERV make them linked to specific children?
- To re-iterate, if the Evas are humanity's only hope against the Angels, why were they made so that only children could pilot them, and why does no one in the show question this? Why not make them so that anyone could pilot an Eva?
His super specific questions have me so excited for the show to eventually answer them. It's so fun that he's picked up on major plot points and lore pieces without realizing it. But he's getting more and more frustrated the longer the show goes on without characters asking these seemingly basic questions.