| » | 5 Anonymous 2018-12-01T08:56:59My personal assumption is that, while I'm sure there is a core intention and main storyline behind it all, the majority of ambiguous visuals and storytelling are just there to be there, which I am convinced is the same case for Evangelion.
I'm not a writer by all means, but I do sometimes try to come up with interesting stories in my head just for fun, and for some parts I also think about weirdly beautiful, cryptic-seeming visuals which I'd add in only because they are interesting and sort of "badass" to me, not necessarily because they drive anything forward.
Or if I'm adding little details which really are supposed to have a specific meaning on a pseudo-deep level, I have come to find that, sometimes, those details come off as if they'd mean MUCH more than they actually do. Fun fact: One story I came up with at the end made a lot of sense at places I didn't even intend to have any background; and multiple characters, meanings and backstories, by sheer accident, all of a sudden were all interconnected in a way which blew away even myself - it was as if I was experiencing multiple plottwists with actual, genuine surprise in a story I came up with myself. You certainly don't get that feeling every day.
Anyway, I think 95% of the time 'there is nothing to get' and what every fan-theory or attempt to explain the entirety of the series comes down to in the end is over-interpretation and its resulting happy accidents. |
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