Watched "End of Evangelion", today. It is definitely very good and I will need to think about it a bit and watch it again in a couple of days to feel as though I have a reasonable grasp of it.

I have heard people talk about these different "endings" (TV versus movie) as though they are mutually exclusive: One must be "the correct one" while the other is a placeholder or fraud. To me (and I have seen some discussions making this same point), they seem completely compatible and it makes sense to see them both. This is especially true when there are some still frames in the TV ending which seem out of place until you see the context of those frames in the movie ending. Also, apparently the movie ending was the originally written one but they went with the TV ending for the show for various reasons. Really, the TV ending is more about what is going on in the minds of the characters while the outside world plays out in the movie ending.

After watching all of this and hearing some perspectives on it, I end up with a strange question of whether or not some of my current hang-ups can be explained as a sort of "fear of intimacy". I do have a tendency to keep people at arm's length, but I thought that was just because I didn't want to impose. I suppose one could make an argument that this is to preempt a rejection of this sort of imposition, as a defence mechanism against that sort of rejected intimacy. Hmm, I wonder. This is at least a new way to think about my current world (and I could definitely use a fresh perspective on that tedious nugget).

I probably don't really have a way to watch the "Rebuild" series of movies which came after, any time soon, but I will keep my eye open, I guess.

I also need to figure out if this Blu-Ray set I had rented is one I should look into buying, in case I think I might re-watch it in the future. I feel like it might be worth looking into that. It did, after all, make me feel actual emotions and think fresh thoughts for some time after completion.

Things to consider, I suppose.