Waypoints 37: Neon Genesis Evangelion Episodes 22-24

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 206 minutes

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Summary

Content Warning for this episode: discussion of suicide throughout.

Evangelion is a messy series. For all the craft and care put into the characters and arcs in the first half of the show, which was uneven in it's treatment of women even then, the back end has higher peaks and even lower valleys. And while lore dumps and twists are being deployed it's Evangelion's female characters that end up with the brunt of the low points. For as shocking as the reveal is that Rei was a series of clones all along, tied to it is the unfortunate flattening of Ritsuko's character, to a woman motivated solely by her relationship to a man. We see this same story played out with her mother, and this repeated cycle implies some greater hidden truth to the actions these characters have taken. Instead of allowing these characters to have a sense of agency they're locked into repeating the same mistakes, because "that's just how women are." We discuss this uneven treatment, the overly dramatic lore dumps, and that shower scene in this episode of Waypoints.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:02.0	Kato here with a content warning for this episode of Waypoints.
0:08.6	We discuss suicide and suicidal ideation throughout the entire episode.
0:16.0	There were one too many mentions of it for us to pinpoint any specific timestamps, but
0:23.5	so you all know just so you're aware, we do revisit the topic many times throughout
0:30.3	the entire episode.
0:33.2	Apart from that, hope you all enjoyed the episode.
0:35.7	Bye.
0:53.5	What's good internet?
0:59.2	It is Thursday, July 25th, and that means it is time once again for Waypoint to Nurtout
1:04.6	and DeepDive on the culture, art and entertainment that has been inspiring and provoking us lately.
1:11.5	Today we are picking up our coverage of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
1:15.3	We were covering episodes 22 through 24, which is what we meant to hit last time before
1:19.9	some technical difficulties got in the way.
1:22.1	I'm host Austin Walker, joining me today in the room in Brooklyn, Ricardo Contreras,
1:26.4	Kato.
1:27.4	Hi.
1:28.4	Daniel Riendo, also in Brooklyn, just not in the room.
1:31.0	Yes.
1:32.0	Hi, hello.
1:33.0	Patrick Kleppek, who is going through notes and trying to remember these episodes, I think.
1:37.4	It's like technical difficulties.
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