Thank you.

I'm Justin Charity. And I'm Micah Peters. Yeah. a Recapables mini series about Neon Genesis Evangelion, now streaming on Netflix.

I'm Justin Charity.

And I have Micah Peters.

We're your Sound Only co-hosts here to record our deepest, darkest, most passionate analysis about one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

This is our fourth episode of Sound Only covering the TV episodes 15 through 21.

Micah, why did we do this to ourselves?

We're covering seven episodes of television and single podcast.

We're doing this because we love this show and also because we are, we don't love ourselves probably as much as we should.

We don't. And this is great because this is really a stretch of the show where characters are, we don't love ourselves probably as much as we should. We don't.

And this is great because this is really a stretch of the show where characters...

It starts getting weird, man.

Yeah, it gets a little off the rails a little bit.

We're going to get into a lot of self-loathing.

A lot of self-loathing and self-destruction and things inflicted on the self.

Abortive attempts at intimacy and things of that nature.

Last episode, we ended on this note.

We ended at a conversation between Gendo and Fyutski and Gendo's office where Gendo and Fyutski

start hinting at a lot of like really pretentious sounding terms and they start talking about

Saleh some more. They start talking about the human instrumentality project. They introduced this

thing called the lance of longinus or or the spear of long genus, rather.

And thankfully, the first episode we're covering now begins with a very efficient conversation

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