Just finished End of Evangelion! My thoughts:

I initially finished the end of NGE, and thought that there were just the 26 episodes and was super confused. I was then notified that there was a lot more content out there, so I watched End of Evangelion to follow up. My thoughts on NGE: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeonGenesisEvangelion/comments/1neszdk/comment/ndsoe6o/

My follow up questions/thoughts:

1. It sounds like SEELE and NERV both had the same idea? Setting off the Third Impact to begin the instrumentality project? If that's the case, why did the need to fight about it? Other than the obvious "we need SOMETHING to happen in this movie, and Evas fighting each other are cool".

2. If Eva 02 and 01 have the souls of their pilots mothers, what soul is within Eva 00?

3. Did Gendo Ikari just fuck everything that moved?? Shinji's mom, Ritsuki's mom, Ritsuki too??? No wonder Shinji hates him.

4. What concept are we to take away from the ending? The instrumentality project has essentially happened, but Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are still alive? And then Shinji tries to kill Asuka, and she calls him pathetic, and then we're out? WTF?

5. If the angels touched Adam, it would ALSO set off the Third Impact, correct? If that was the end goal, then why bother trying to stop them at all?

6. If there was a second and third impact, why do we have no information on the first impact? Or is it implied that the first impact is what created humans?

Thanks for all your thoughts on these!